Participation of trainers from the CA region, guided by an experienced colleague from 

Russia, resulted in broadened skills necessary for providing advanced trainings on SP; and  

Distribution of an electronic e mail network of participants. 

Advocacy Campaign on Recalling of Decree #20  About publishing activity  in Kyrgyzstan. On 

January 14 2002 the President of the Kyrgyz Republic this restrictive document, which required 

licensing of all publishing activities. The NGOs have been campaigning against this Decree for 

several months and through diligent planning and cooperation they have been successful in 

getting it repealed. 

Monitoring and Evaluation 

According to goals and objectives of Hub Center and CSSC localization, the process of further 

conveying skills and knowledge in participatory M&E continued during the quarter. 

PM&E Training. In April 2002, the PM&E training was held in Bishkek for 11 CSSCs with the 

attendance and supervision of the regional M&E staff. The CSSC managers and coordinators 

learned advantages and difficulties of participatory M&E, instruments and ways to involve 

communities in the PM&E process for community projects funded by Counterpart. The 

participatory model of M&E has been further adjusted to the program needs and introduced 

during the Quarterly Community Outreach Coordinators' meeting on April 30

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CO PCs and Grant Managers.  

Regional Database. The thorough review of methods and reporting formats contributed to the 

update of the regional database, consisted previously of monitoring reports from three countries, 

with the monitoring reports for community projects from Kyrgyzstan. Community project 

implementation tracking through the regional database is now only missing the CAG monitoring 

reports from Turkmenistan.  

Staff Appointments. In this quarter, the M&E staff has been appointed in Turkmenistan Hub 

center. The revision of job description, orientation and extensive consultations were provided to 

M&E staff in monitoring and evaluation program requirements for community projects and in 

accordance with the preferences of participatory M&E such as: 

Mobilize local community by providing them program ownership;  

Assure that evaluation is designed to examine key program issues; and  

Increase the chances that evaluation would contribute to program improvement. 

Performance Review. In this quarter, the performance review by target level for March 31, 2002 

was conducted. The analysis of performance by countries was prepared with the use of Regional 

Database. The findings were presented at the quarterly Country Directors' meeting on May 29

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Monitoring Systems. Significant efforts were devoted to designing the system for training 

program monitoring and evaluation and Community Outreach Program M&E system with the use 

of Logical Framework methodology. Monitoring and Evaluation System for the Training Program 

was developed by the Regional office to help managers to track and make decisions on 

implementation of the Phase III goals and objectives. Country Training Coordinators will adapt 

the M&E System for their country activities based on the country specific strategy. Regional IT 

Manager and Training Coordinator started to work on the development of the Management 

Information System to be implemented regionally.  

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