Finding Peace at a Nursery School in Fergana Valley
We stepped off the dusty street in Asaka, Uzbekistan, through a simple steel door into another world. Gulirano met us in the open, sunlit courtyard of the nursery school she had founded. Trees filled the central garden. Colorful balloons and paper flowers decorated the walkways that ran around the perimeter.…
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Promoting Principles of Interreligious and Intra-religious Tolerance through Media in Uzbekistan
Promoting Principles of Interreligious and Intra-religious Tolerance through Media in Uzbekistan, launched in September 2023, is a 14-month project to foster positive narratives of interreligious and intra-religious tolerance and coexistence in Uzbekistan. Context Despite being a multiethnic and multi-confessional country with a variety of ethnic groups and interreligious tolerance being…
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#YoshXabador: Youth Against Corruption
#YoshXabador: Youth Against Corruption, launched in January 2024, is a two-year project to foster the agency of youth to support anti-corruption in a safe and constructive manner. Context Despite the Uzbekistan government’s initiatives to curb it, the persistence of corruption in both the public and private sectors continues to be…
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#YoshStan: Empowering Youth CSOs
#Yoshstan: Empowering Youth CSOs, launched in October 2023, is a two-year project funded by the European Union that aims at expanding local youth’s access to legal information and information related to youth issues in Uzbekistan, supporting the important directions of reforms aimed at establishing direct dialogue with the people in…
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Freedom of Religion & Belief Roundtables: Key Learnings from Search for Common Ground in Lebanon, Sri Lanka & Uzbekistan 2020-2023
Search for Common Ground (Search) was awarded funding to build Freedom of Religion and Belief (FoRB) Roundtables in Search for Common Ground (Search) was awarded funding to build Freedom of Religion and Belief (FoRB) Roundtables in Lebanon, Sri Lanka, and Uzbekistan from 2020-2023. Built into the model was a plan…
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With SHE WINS, We All Win
Women receive training to strengthen their ability to work with victims of trafficking and violence against women. Photo by our local partner. In a Tashkent hotel conference room, a dozen women have gathered. Leaders of their own nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are here to design new projects to empower women in…
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National Women’s Business Agendas for Central Asia
Our vision is a world in which women and girls enjoy equality, freedom from violence and poverty, and meaningful inclusion in the processes that shape their communities, nations, and international affairs...
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#YoshStan: Raising Youth Voices in Local Decision-Making
Search for Common Ground (Search) implemented #YoshStan: Raising Youth Voices in Local Decision-Making funded by the European Union from April 2020 to May 2022 in collaboration with its local partner in Uzbekistan, Hamroh. YoshStan aims to contribute to promoting youth-oriented services in Andijan oblast through collaboration between youth civil society…
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Roadmap – #YoshStan: Raising Youth Voices in Local Decision-Making – April 2022
In Uzbekistan, Search implemented with its local partner Hamroh the project "#YoshStan: Raising Youth Voices in Local Decision-Making" between April 2020 and May 2022. Funded by the European Union, this project aimed to promote youth-oriented services in Andijan oblast through collaboration between youth CSOs and Local Authorities. Twelve youths from…
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