The Ninth Annual ‘Life in Kyrgyzstan’ Conference 2023

On October 12-13, 2023, the Institute of Public Policy and Administration of the University of Central Asia (UCA), ISDC - International Security and Development Center in Berlin (Germany), the Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops, IGZ (Germany) in partnership with the World Bank, UNFPA, AUCA, Mercy Corps organized the ninth annual Life in Kyrgyzstan Conference.

This year’s ninth annual conference included various topics from entrepreneurship dynamics in Central Asia, recent developments in Afghanistan, civil society in Central Asia, green economy, air pollution, perceptions and attitudes on the war in Ukraine on Central Asia, women’s representation, agriculture productivity, human mobility, political quotas, demography, public perceptions, development indicators, nutrition, climate change, historical narrative of the 1916 uprising, and digital transformation in Kyrgyzstan and a wider Central Asian region.