•         Designed national health reform plans in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.

•         Helped increase TB treatment rates in Central Asia. The current range of treatment success in the region is from 73% (Uzbekistan) to 85.3% (Tajikistan). Additionally, in Kazakhstan, TB death decreased by 46% from 1998-2005.

•         Led four countries in Central Asia to adopt, for national use, the WHO-recommended Live Birth Criteria, paving the way for reductions in infant morbidity and mortality.  To date, as a result of activities to introduce the new criteria, 221 infants have lived who otherwise would have been abandoned as dead.

•         Supported the use of WHO-promoted perinatal strategies by providing clinical training to health workers, replication, institutionalization, and sustainability of maternal and child health activities.  

•         Helped decrease malaria cases in the region by 84% from 2000-2005.

•         Assisted governments in the region to obtain $51 million in additional funding for infectious disease control through grants from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

•         Increased access to quality primary health care, establishing training facilities that have improved the skills of over 10,000 clinicians in family medicine and general practice.

•         Helped more than 150,000 of Central Asia’s youth to learn about drug demand reduction and HIV prevention, thus counteracting the risk of youth to begin using drugs and get infected with HIV. The program has reached over 70% of the youth aged 15-25 living in the 7 target sites in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan.

•         Helped establish a Training Center for the prevention of HIV transmission from mother-to-child and developed a training package to serve as a resource as the program is rolled out through the Central Asian region.  Currently, 71 women-infant pairs are being monitored in the pilot sites.

•         Helped thousands of women in the Central Asian Republics avoid abortion by providing training and much-needed contraceptives to health systems.  Surveys in Kazakhstan indicate a 22% decline in the total abortion rate from 1995-1999.

•         Provided laboratory equipment, training and technical assistance to establish eleven HIV sentinel surveillance sites, which generated the first scientifically valid data on the course of the epidemic.

•         Advanced knowledge of health and demographic issues in the region through six demographic and health surveys.

Provided grants to hundreds of communities to address priority health concerns like healthy life style, nutrition, sanitation, women’s and children’s health, disability, and access to rehabilitated clinics and clean water.  

USAID Education Programs Have

·         Trained more than 4,000 teachers in modern teaching methods and 1,500 school administrators in effective management in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan

·         Renovated over 100 schools and developed 200 school/community councils in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan to improve school attendance.

·         Improved learning environment for approximately 255,000 children through strengthened school management and introduction of modern interactive teaching, focused on students.

·         Introduced new, more efficient mechanisms of education financing.

·         Helped design and introduce the Kyrgyzstan National Scholarship Test in 2003, which annually provide over 35,000 high school students across the country a fair and transparent way to compete for an opportunity to receive university education and government-funded university scholarships.

·             Established the Regional Education Network Association (REGENA) as a tool to assist region’s universities with advocacy, networking and professional development. REGENA currently has 23 active members-universities.

·             Created credit hour pilot programs at four key universities in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan to serve as models and assist other universities in the region to advance toward international education standards. In part due to this assistance, Tajikistan has made a decision to convert all 39 universities to a U.S.-based credit hour system.

·         Trained hundreds of university professors throughout the region in modern business and economics education. 

·             Established the Central Asian Scholarship Program (CASP) to support education opportunities for capable and motivated students who seek business, economic, and other degrees in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. The program has already awarded its first scholarships to 196 students. Recipients were selected through a competitive process from different universities in the region.

Provided business education to nearly one million high school students in the five Central Asia’s countries through financial support for Junior Achievement programs

USAID Democracy Programs Have

•         Provided civic education to more than 130,000 students in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan to increase youth civic activism. Thousands of schools in these countries teach civil education for 9th, 10th, and 11th grades from textbooks, developed with USAID support. Many of these classes are taught by educators, trained through USAID programs.

•         Completed over 1,800 infrastructural and social projects benefiting nearly three million residents in economically vulnerable communities across the region.

•         Trained more than 72,000 people about the dangers of human trafficking across the five Central Asia’s countries in recent years.

•         Trained more than 50,000 of the region’s professionals, including government officials, NGO leaders, businesspeople, and technical experts in their areas of expertise through training programs designed specifically for the participants’ needs and combining classroom instruction with professional meetings, on-site observation, and action planning.

•         Through Eurasia Foundation provided more than $10 million through small grants and technical assistance to develop private enterprise, public policy, and civil society in Central Asia.

•         Assisted the development of media in the region through trainings and seminars for print media, TV, and radio journalists and managers; supported development and production of informational programs through grants to media outlets.

•         Supported the judicial system in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan by helping develop independent modern judicial bodies, legal education, facilitating professional training, helping improve public awareness about courts work, also by strengthening court transparency and court-media relationships. In Tajikistan, helped develop the country’s first comprehensive legal database.

•         Through grants targeting youth, elderly, professional associations, and disabled groups, USAID helped NGOs to address self-identified community needs, while at the same time strengthening their organizational capacity. 

•         Supported elections processes in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan through non-partisan political party training, work with NGOs on civic advocacy, media training, and NGO “get-out-the vote” initiatives, aimed at increasing their fairness and transparency.

•         Facilitated decentralization and the establishment of more accountable local government in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan, as well as the housing reform in Uzbekistan. 

Helped strengthen region’s non-governmental and community organizations by extending training, resources, and expert advice through networks of civic society support centers. Assisted in the development of legal and fiscal framework for the NGO sector in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, and facilitated citizens’ participation in the development of new laws.