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The Civil Society Support Program in Central Asia is a five-year, $18 million program implemented by Eurasia Foundation to cultivate a vibrant and responsive civil society throughout the region, including Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, and build a new generation of forward-looking civil society leaders (2019-2024).
Today, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) concluded a workshop for the Central Asian Ministries of Energy, utilities and power system operators to discuss benefits of regional electricity trade and to review energy market models applicable to Central Asia.
Today, USAID’s Smart Waters project convened water sector national partners from five Central Asian countries and Afghanistan for the eighth Regional Steering Committee for water coordination in Burabay, Kazakhstan. The meeting facilitated the exchange of information and ideas among participating countries and the sharing of national best practices at a regional level.
Yerbolat Tursynqozha (23) is a young journalist at a local subsidiary of Kazakhstan’s main television channel in Kyzylorda, the main city in Kazakhstan’s remote southwestern region. In June 2019, he applied to become a certified Kazakh-language trainer in media literacy at the Minber Public Foundation, supported through USAID’s Central Asia Media Program. Implemented by Internews, the program offers intensive training courses to people who wish to become media literacy trainers.
USAID’s Central Asia Media Program enables disability rights activist Zhaslan Suleimenov to raise awareness and to improve accessibility of public spaces in Kazakhstan’s capital.
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