The Hub Office staff conducted 4

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 OD assessment for KN on April 15 18. During the assessment, 

interviews with NGOs, CBOs, governments, and media were conducted. The assessment resulted 

in recommendations to address areas for development encountered during the interviews. 

On June 23 24, the KE Assistant A. Dunganaeva took part in the training on Business Planning 

organized by the CSSC of Karakol and held in Karakol. The training was conducted by Mr. A. 

Leebin of MASHAV (Israel). The most interesting thing was that the software to assess 

profitability of the business idea was presented to the participants. 

Community Outreach 

On May 29, KN conducted a meeting with leaders of target communities to discuss preparation 

and conduction of PM&E in target communities.  

KN hosted a meeting with refugees' NGOs on May 28, where they discussed main achievements 

and problems encountered during the implementation of the community outreach program that 

will end in June 2003. The implications of the citizenship activities have also been discussed. KN 

staff recommended refugee organizations revise their activities as most of their clients received 

the citizenship, and they have to be proactive in attracting new financial sources, other from 

UNHCR and Counterpart. The participants also talked about celebrating Refugees' Day on June 

19 in Kant. 

KN has slightly revised procedures of distributing emergency assistance to refugees and re 

elected the Commission designated to review and approve applications. To date, 29 applications 

were approved, totaling 11,300 soms.  

On June 20, the KN Manager T. Temirova participated in the consultations on the Village 

Investment Project (VIP) by WB. The issues of involving the target communities were discussed 

among others in the agenda, and a decision was made in include target villages of Otogon and 

Chon Daly as pilot locations of the VIP. 

The NGOs Booruker Urmat and Duvana received a NDI grant to conduct the advocacy campaign, 

aimed at simplification of citizenship acquiring procedures. They organized and facilitated 

roundtables with participation of militia, passport offices, local governments, and deputies of 

local representative bodies in Bishkek on May 12 and 21, Kara Balta on May 28, and in Tokmak 

on May 21. The agenda was to discuss how to simplify existing procedures of obtaining 

citizenship. The final roundtable was held in Bishkek on June 4, where the participants 

summarized results of the previous roundtables. A written statement of support in adopting this 

law was forwarded to the President Akaev, Parliament and Ministry of Justice. 

6.  Karakol CSSC (KR) 

Activity Overview 

B. Abdieva participated in the presentation of the new TACIS project entitled Regional 

Development of Issyk Kul Area on April 1. One of the key objectives of this project is to develop 

tourism based on local communities. On the following meetings of April 16 and 25, the issue of 

establishing independent tourism information center was discussed. 

By April 15, KR collected 23 applications of local NGOs, which then were sent to the Soros 

Foundation. 

On April 28, KR conducted a roundtable on Social Partnership in Aksu Rayon, attended by 13 

ayil okmotus (village governments), 4 representatives of the Rayon State Administration 

(including Rayon Akim Mr. S. Mambetov), and 5 NGOs. KR presented its experience in fostering 

social partnership at this meeting. 

Internal Capacity Building 

The KR Deputy Manager I. Rachmanova took part in the TOT on Business Planning conducted 

by SBDC Consult on April 9 13 in Cholpon Ata. 

The KR Manager B. Abdieva took part in the training seminar on Developing Marketing Plan 

conducted by the local consulting company Marketing Service Bureau with support of USAID 

and PRAGMA Corporation. She got new skills in ensuring marketing communications, analysis 

of the market situation, vendors and competitors. 

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