Uzbekistan

Organizations by City

Country Code: 998

Adijan

• Disabled Children's Parents' Club--Regional Branch
• Tadbirkor Ayol Republican Women's Business Association

Bukhara (City Code: 83652)

• Tadbirkor Ayol Republican Women's Business Association

Fergana (City Code: 3732)

• For An Environmentally-Clean Fergana Association
• Information Center of Association of Business Women of Fergana Region
• IQTIDOR Support Centre for Physically Disabled Children

Karakalpakstan (City Code: 36122)

• Union for the Defense of the Aral Sea and Amu Darya
• Farmers' Center
• ISAR-Central Asia Office
• Infocenter on Questions of Afghan War Veterans' Rehabilitation
• Karakalpakstan Art Museum
• Training-Production Enterprise of Karakalpak Republican Society of the Disabled
• Perzent--Karakalpak Center for Reproductive Health and Environment
• Public Research Center
• Renaissance "Vozrojdenie"
• Tadbirkor Ayol Republican Women's Business Association

Kokand

• Tadbirkor Ayol Republican Women's Business Association

Namangan (City Code: 36922)

• Tadbirkor Ayol Republican Women's Business Association

Navoi (City Code: 43622)

• Tadbirkor Ayol Republican Women's Business Association

Samarkand (City Code: 3662)

• "Ayol" Resource Center for Women & Family
• Iktisodchi Ayol Association
• International Museum of Peace and Solidarity
• International Relations Office (IROSAM) Samarkand State University
• Sabr Crisis Center for Women and Teens
• Samarkand Information Consulting Center
• Tadbirkor Ayol Republican Women's Business Association

Tashkent (City Code: 71)

• American-Uzbek Business Club
• Association of Accountants and Auditors of Uzbekistan
• Association of Uzbekistan for Sustainable Development of Water Resources (AUSWRD)
• Business Women's Association of Uzbekistan
• Central Asian Free Exchange
• Center for Women Leaders
• Center on Economic Research
• Chamber of Commodity Producers and Entrepreneurs of Tashkent
• Chilanzar Chapter of the Fund for a Healthy Generation
• COUNTERPART Consortium
• "Ekolog Unity"-- SEU
• Eremurus Environmentalist Club
• Erk Democratic Party of Uzbekistan
• Eurasia Foundation
• Ferghana Valley Development Programme
• International Institute of Central Asia Biodiversity
• IREX/Internet Access and Training Program
• KRIDI Club for Parents of Disabled Children

• Médecins Sans Frontières Aral Sea Area Programme. Since establishing its presence in the region in July 1997, MSF has set up a number of health programs, primarily focusing on control and treatment of tuberculosis. Tuberculosis kills 2 million people in the world every year. MSF's aim is "to provide 4 million in the Aral Sea area with access to a World Health Organization recommended tuberculosis treatment program known as DOTS (Directly Observed Treatment, Short-Course)."

• National University of Uzbekistan
• Navruz Endowment Fund
• Open Society Institute (local office)
• Public Education Center
• "Soholm Avlod Uchun" Charitable Foundation
• Soviet of the Federation of Trade Unions
• Tashkent Public Education Center
• Tadbirkor Ayol Republican Women's Business Association
• Writer's Union
• Women's Committee of Uzbekistan
• Women's Resource Center

Online Resources

Internews Uzbekistan's website publishes a monthly newsletter in Uzbek, Russian, and English.

Recent Developments

May 2003 Tashkent Meeting of EBRD Marked by NGO Participation, Bank Commitments to Human Rights and Democratization                                                     

More than 200 representatives of 80 NGOs--most of them Central Asian and Uzbek--attended the 12th annual meeting of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) that concluded in Tashkent on 5 May 2003. The NGOs of Central Asia had their own meetings with EBRD President Jean  Lemierre. He scheduled an initial session in advance of the Board of Governors' meeting so that he could hear "civil society perspectives" prior to going into the official program. He then met again with all the NGOs on Tuesday May 6 after the close of the Governors' meeting. At that session President Lemierre stated that the Bank will:

1. Closely monitor the welfare and freedom of Uzbek NGOs in the weeks and months following the EBRD meetings in Tashkent, especially in view of the frank statements many of them made there.
2. Monitor implementation of Uzbek President Islam Karimov's commitment to invite the UN's Special Rapporteur on Torture to return to the country to begin implementation of his report. The Rapporteur's report said torture in Uzbekistan is "systematic". Action on the report is one of the benchmarks in the EBRD Country Strategy for Uzbekistan.
3. Work with the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to assess progress on the political/human rights benchmarks, and with the International Monetary Fund on the economic benchmarks.
4. Consult with NGOs on progress in meeting the benchmarks.
5. Name a member of the Bank's executive committee to lead the benchmark monitoring process, in particular the policy dialogue which will include NGOs.
6. Translate the Country Strategy into Russian for distribution through NGO networks. The executive summary is already in Russian on the EBRD website.

The EBRD currently has loans and investments in Uzbekistan exceeding Euro 600 million.