Promoting people-focused approaches to security provision throughout Kyrgyzstan

This project aims at strengthening the role of civil society in the democratization of security provision through supporting their capacity-building and creating additional mechanisms and space for dialogue between civil society, police, local authorities and other interested parties. In particular, it will focus on building the knowledge, skills and outreach of the Civic Union network (the CU), a group of 27 civil society organisations (CSOs) and activists who have been working on police reform with Saferworld since 2012. The project will create opportunities to elicit the perspectives of vulnerable sections of society including youth and women - who are too often marginalised - and not involved in debates, build and strengthen relationships between stakeholders, encourage coordination and coherence at the local and national levels, and promote discussion on challenges and responses to achieve sustainable outcomes.