The main areas of interventions by UNESCO:
- funding for sub-regional conferences and workshops on:
- early childhood development;
- professional development of teachers;
- promotion of EFA goals;
- Community Learning Centre Project established in Osh, Talas, Naryn, Issyk-Kul, Chui;
- EFA coordination, planning, monitoring and assessment;
- ECCE;
- Girls’ education;
- Secondary Education and TVET;
- Higher Education and ICT;
- Literacy, life skills education and NFE;
- ESD;
- Teacher Education;
- Rights-based education;
- HIV and AIDS preventive education.
Proposed UNESCO interventions:
- strengthening UNESCO’s global lead and coordination role for EFA and providing support to national leadership in favour of EFA;
- developing policies, capacities and tools for quality education for all and lifelong learning as well as promoting education for sustainable development.
Major development partners active in education and broad areas of intervention:
Aga Khan Foundation
- early childhood development support for disadvantaged children particularly the overage and quality of kindergartens in the Osh region.
Asian Development Bank
- working to improve the quality of education and school infrastructure in rural regions of the country;
- Education Sector Development Project, Second Education Development Project;
- Early Childhood Development Project;
- support for project on education needs of disabled children.
European Union
- renovation of rural schools and sector policy support activities
EC-TACIS
- reforms in the higher education system
GTZ
- development partner for vocational education
- curriculum development for selected trades
- establishment of a national policy framework for Vocational Education and Skills Development
Helvetas
- development partner for vocational education
- support for agricultural training, selected primary vocational schools in rural areas
ILO
- International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour through Education and Youth Employment
OPEC Fund
- co-financed basic education sector with ADB
Save the Children
- Inclusive Education Project to raise awareness among teacher for the need for inclusive education environment for children
Soros Foundation
- various programmes of the national curriculum including English language program, Step by Step, debating, Reading and Writing for Critical Thinking
UNICEF
- Early Childhood Development project
- global education and community management of education programmes
World Bank
- Rural Education Project to increasing the effectiveness of teaching in schools and creating a system of incentives and improving the quality of education
- Fast Track Initiative Project dedicated to preschool and primary education
