Project Description

This project aims to promote multilingualism in the Kyrgyz Republic, to foster an environment enabling broader integration, especially of minorities while promoting protection of their rights. If all ethnic groups of Kyrgyzstan speak the state language while having an opportunity to learn their mother tongues, know more about the different cultures and are aware of the rights of minorities, and participate on equal footing in public life, then the society of Kyrgyzstan will become more inclusive and stable which is essential for ensuring a durable peace.

PBF Key Activities

• Normative basis improved allowing schools to implement multilingual education (MLE) models
• Measures for enhanced minority participation are agreed and piloted
• Expertise on MLE is available in at least seven educational institutions. Two innovative labs and five resource hubs are established in in-service and pre-service teacher training institutions
• 30 schools and 5 preschools successfully pilot MLE models
• Free state language courses for youth, parents and teachers and state officials from various ethnic communities are implemented
• Advocacy campaigns on raising awareness of various stakeholders (especially state bodies involved in the decision-making on inter-ethnic issues) on importance of minority rights protection and promotion of respect to diversity are implemented
• 10 trainings on minority rights are implemented