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BISHKEK (TCA) — A conference on best practices to improve public service delivery at the local level was held in Bishkek on November 30. The event was attended by representatives of 30 municipalities of Issyk-Kul and Jalal-Abad provinces and government agencies, the Embassy of Switzerland in the Kyrgyz Republic reported. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek is gradually turning from one of the greenest cities of the former Soviet Union into a gassed and smoggy one. The public outrage intensifies in cold seasons, when a shroud of smog covers Bishkek, and subsides in spring. The Government and state agencies regularly make decisions to improve the environmental situation in the capital but it is getting worse every year. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — Dozens of depopulated villages in a northern Kazakh province bordering Russia will be "liquidated" and their residents moved to larger towns, a senior government official says, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reported. Continue reading
DUSHANBE (TCA) — The Board of Directors of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $41.18 million grant to rehabilitate and expand climate-resilient water supply and sanitation infrastructure to improve the delivery of urban services in the southeast area of Dushanbe. The project is ADB’s first urban sector project in Tajikistan, ADB’s country office said on September 28. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — The rapid growth and development of Kazakhstan’s capital Astana has been achieved largely at the expense of other regions of Kazakhstan and due to internal migration. We are republishing this article on the issue, written by Rafis Abazov*, originally published by the CACI Analyst: Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev's decision earlier this month to declare Shymkent a city of national significance is of historical international value. It will facilitate the practical implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals in Kazakhstan, including through viable urban management, providing housing to people and improving urban environmental planning of one of the largest Kazakh cities, the Kazakh Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. Continue reading
