This market assessment is to a large extent based on secondary data analysis. This includes the analysis of food price and consumer price index data from the National Statistical Committee of the Kyrgyz Republic, commodity prices from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the APK-Inform Agency and food prices of the WFP Food Price Data Store, analysis of food balance sheets and of various reports and publications on food markets and the Kyrgyz economy.

Progress shows that stunting in children can be defeated – UNICEF

DUBLIN, 15 April 2013 – A new UNICEF report issued today offers evidence that real progress is being made in the fight against stunted growth – the hidden face of poverty for 165 million children under the age of five. The report shows that accelerated progress is both possible and necessary.

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PROMOTING EQUITY IN THE MOST DEPRIVED AND REMOTE COMMUNITIES IN BATKEN

ABSTRACT

A recent series of socio-economic, political and security shocks in the Kyrgyz Republic adversely affected the lives of the poor and disadvantaged and slowed progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). UNICEF and its partners have supported government and civil society in alleviating the impact of those shocks by refocusing on programmes benefiting the poorest and most vulnerable children and families.

The Kyrgyzstani authorities seem unwilling or unable to investigate allegations of collusion or complicity of security forces in the commission of human rights violations against civilians during four days of violence between ethnic Kyrgyz and ethnic Uzbeks in the south of the country in June 2010 Amnesty International said in a briefing published today.

Hundreds died, thousands were injured and hundreds of thousands displaced in June 2010.

Fact Sheet

Office of the Spokesperson

Washington, DC

May 24, 2012

People internally displaced by conflict and violence

For the last 14 years, the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre has monitored intern- al displacement resulting from conflict and violence across the world. In 2011, the number of people internally displaced by these causes stood at 26.4 million.

Summary: This paper examines the implications of elevated global food prices for inflation in select Central Asian economies - Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. The findings suggest that global food inflation has significant short-run effects that build over time. Inflation outcomes simulated under alternative global wheat price assumptions underscore these vulnerabilities, and suggest that sustained administrative measures are unlikely to prove effective.

Executive Summary

The study on ‘Socio-Economic Mapping of Tensions and Disputes in Southern Kyrgyzstan’ was designed to help determine the root causes of tension and disputes between communities in Osh, Jalalabad and Batken Provinces. The project used a dual approach of both macro and micro-level analyses to determine the causes of disputes or tensions, with each analysis looking at difference sources of information from different levels of society.