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In response to a request from the Office of the President of the Kyrgyz Republic, DPAD staffmembers Marco V. Sánchez and Eduardo Zepeda conducted a scoping mission in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan on 27-28 April 2016. They met with a number of Government officials and experts to describe UN/DESA’s approach in strengthening national capacities to use modelling tools for sustainable development policies. In an initial phase to be completed by 30 September 2016, DPAD will provide support to update an existing economy-wide model in order to use it for designing the policy scenarios that will inform the 2030 Strategy. There will be further discussions in October 2016 about a second phase of collaboration in three potential areas: (i) the elaboration of the five-year implementation strategy 2018-2022; (ii) capacity building in the use of modelling tools; and (iii) a study addressing the challenges that energy generation, water availability and climate change are posing to the country’s development. Herewith is Mr. Aibek Kadyraliev, Head of the Department of Financial and Economic Analysis and Development Monitoring at the Office of the President, flanked by Mr. Zepeda on the left and Mr. Sánchez on the right.
