Legal assistance for Kyrgyz farmers: More law – less poverty

01.01.2011 - 31.12.2014

Thanks to land reform, many Kyrgyz farmers have their own, albeit small, piece of land. To be able to subsist from agriculture, farmers lease and buy additional land. This leads to legal disputes regarding access to water and mountain pastureland. The local non-governmental organisation "Legal Assistance for Rural Citizens" (LARC) helps farmers and other rural groups to claim and protect their rights.

Automatisierung der Wasserversorgung im Ferghana-Tal

01.08.2010 - 31.12.2013

Central Asia Regional Water Information Base

01.08.2010 - 29.02.2012

Employment and Social Institutions

01.08.2010 - 31.07.2012

Uzbekistan: Water Resources Management Sector Project

15.02.2010 - 31.12.2015

In Uzbekistan agricultural production almost entirely depends on irrigation. The country is therefore compelled to using existing water resources much more efficiently, especially in irrigation, which consumes over 90% of the water. After the collapse of the Soviet Union the region inherited huge irrigation schemes, and the associated storage facilities were all managed centrally at that time. The newly independent states inherited a system of inefficient water management, seriously deteriorated infrastructure and poor institutional settings all coupled with the prevailing arid geo-climatic features of the region.

EC-IFAS: Organisation de l'utilisation de l'eau

01.02.2010 - 30.06.2012

Uzbekistan: Rural Enterprise Support Project (RESPII) - Ph. I

01.03.2009 - 28.02.2012

Agriculture is one of the major components of the economy of Uzbekistan. Approximately 64 percent of the country’s population lives in rural areas. Around 32 percent of the labor force is directly employed in agriculture. In addition, the agricultural sector has a direct impact on and relationship with many other areas of the economy generating 70 percent of domestic trade and servicing 90 percent of the domestic demand for agricultural products.

Global Mountain Forum

01.10.2008 - 31.12.2012

RADS/KSAP Rural Advisory Services

01.07.2007 - 31.12.2012

Supporting Accelerated Growth of Entrepreneurship (SAGE), Phase 2

01.05.2025 - 31.12.2029

The SAGE Phase 2 implemented by Accelerate Prosperity aims to promote climate resilient and inclusive private sector investment and job creation in Central Asia.

Digital Financial Services Programme in Europe and Central Asia, Phase II

01.12.2023 - 31.12.2029

The Digital Financial Services Programme, Phase II, supports responsible access to digital financial services in Central Asia, South Caucasus and the Western Balkans by improving underlying regulations, digital infrastructure and private sector’s capacities.

IFC Sustainable Cities, Phase II

01.07.2023 - 30.06.2027

This is the second phase of SECO’s successful partnership with IFC to promote Private Sector Engagement in infrastructure. It incorporates a series of learnings from the previous phase, e.g. extending instruments with the aim to increase mobilization of commercial financing or including public-private partnership (PPP) advisory in all regions.