What we do
UNICEF works to promote and protect children’s rights in over 190 countries and territories, including Kyrgyzstan
UNICEF’s work in Kyrgyzstan
Since 1994, UNICEF has been working to improve the well-being of children and families in Kyrgyzstan. We support and strengthen national systems to ensure that every child, including children and adolescents with disabilities, survives, thrives, learns, and lives in a safe environment free from violence and poverty.
Our work is guided by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), an international human rights treaty that sets out the civil, political, economic, social, health and cultural rights of children. Kyrgyzstan ratified the CRC in 1994.
UNICEF’s new Country Programme for the period 2023-2027 focuses on reaching the most disadvantaged children. Click on the links below to learn more about the programme and explore our work.
Social Policy
Public policies and services play a crucial role in reducing poverty and realizing children’s rights.
UNICEF works with the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic to generate evidence and improve social policies, programmes and services. This includes improving child-sensitive social protection, ensuring that the government’s planning and budgeting are effective, and investing in human capital.
The goal is to ensure that Kyrgyzstan is a country that is free from child poverty and enables children to thrive.
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Protecting children
Violence against children can have a devastating effect on their well-being. Children and adolescents that are victims of violence are more likely to engage in health-harming behaviours, and to have mental and physical health problems. They are less likely to learn at school. Such children have difficulty forming trusting and caring relationships with others as adults. Moreover, they are more likely to be perpetrators of violence themselves.
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Education and Development of Adolescents
UNICEF believes that education is a fundamental right.
All children and adolescents must have equitable access to inclusive quality education from the very start. Early learning is imperative to improve learning outcomes, and to enable young people to develop skills for life and work and become active members of society.
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Health, Nutrition, and Climate-Resilient Environment
UNICEF advocates national investment to reduce child mortality and ensure that all children, adolescents, and women, including the most vulnerable, live in a safe and climate-resilient environment.
Our work spans from providing vaccines and training health-care providers to developing solutions that help to address challenges affecting children such as infectious diseases, malnutrition, maternal health, child mortality, environmental hazards and the adverse effects of climate change. All this work is carried out in collaboration with the government, civil society, international organizations, and local communities.
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Cross-cutting areas
While many of UNICEF’s programmes are focused on specific goals and objectives, other areas of work are cross-cutting. Data, analysis and tools generated through our social and behaviour change efforts are critical for immunization as well as early learning.
All our activities are developed and carried out in ways that promote gender equality. Ensuring inclusivity and promoting the interests of children with disabilities is always a priority, no matter which field we are working in.
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