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Annual Life in Kyrgyzstan Conference

Park Hotel, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic 6-7 October 2016

The University of Central Asia’s Institute of Public Policy and Administration (UCA IPPA); Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops (IGZ), International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), International Security and Development Center (ISDC) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) are pleased to invite you to the second annual ‘Life in Kyrgyzstan’ Conference to take place in Bishkek on 6-7 October 2016.

The two-day conference will bring together national and international experts from government and the public sector, development agencies, non-governmental organizations, academia and research institutions, and media to exchange knowledge and experiences on recent socio-economic developments in the Kyrgyz Republic and Central Asia, and to promote evidence-based policy making.

The conference will also inform on the Life in Kyrgyzstan Study carried out in 2016 by an international consortium of research institutions with funding from IFPRI, IGZ, FAO and UCA. Visit http://www.lifeinkyrgyzstan.org for full details. Conference costs are sponsored by UCA.

 

Research topics to be presented at the Conference will cover following topics:

* Poverty and inequality;

* Employment and labor markets;

* Migration and remittances;

* Gender, children and intra-household decision making;

* Education and health outcomes;

* Nutrition and food security;

* Public service delivery and decentralization;

* Rural livelihoods and agricultural market access;

* Home gardens and rural coping strategies;

* Value chains and export orientation;

* Entrepreneurship and informality;

* Impacts of trade reform;

* Social capital and social cohesion;

* Peace-building, trust and expectations;

* Micro-level data quality, survey methodology and panel data collection; and

* Methods of rigorous impact evaluation.

The conference language is English, with simultaneous translation provided in Russian. There is no conference fee. Please note that travel and accommodation funds cannot be provided. Please, confirm your participation by e-mail: likconference2016@gmail.com or shoola.dzhumaeva@ucentralasia.org or by phone: 910 822 (+572). Registration for participation in the conference will close on 3 October 2016. For further inquiries please contact Dr Kanat Tilekeyev at kanat.tilekeyev@ucentralasia.org.