1. Good public practice - public councils under
ministries and agencies in Kyrgyzstan.
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Kaliia Moldogazieva, Human
Development Center “Tree of Life”, (
Kyrgyz Republic ) Rio-de Janeiro, 20.June
2012

2. Creation of Public Councils in
Kyrgyzstan
• In Kyrgyzstan as you see, the civil society, in comparison with other
countries of the Central Asia is developed enough. In the country
registered about 10 thousand NGOs. They work in different directions -
social, human rights and ecological NGOs.
• 1. In 2010 by suggestion of ex-president of KR Roza Otunbaeva, Public
councils (PC) under different ministries and agencies were introduced. The
mission of these PC is the co-ordinated interaction of the state bodies and
a civil society on increase of a transparency of strategic governance
decisions.
• 2. We as the ecological organisations (the HDC Tree of Life, Biom and
Unison) are a part of Public council under State agency environmental
protection and forest. Public Council operates on principles of
voluntariness, self-management, objectivity, publicity and independence
in decision-making concerning the competence. Council activity is carried
out on the basis of free discussion of all questions and collective decision-
making.

3. Work of Public Council under State Agency of
Nature protection and Forest
• For 2011- 02012 Public council considered such questions as:
Public Public examination of legislation draft developed by State
agency the Report of Republican fund of nature
protection, information of State agency on realisation of the
international nature protection programs and international
conventions. There was special session of Public Council of the
actual ecological questions lifted from Issyk-Kul region.
• Also in the beginning this year members of PC and other activists
, scientists, actively participated in discussion of reforming of the
Government and offered their suggestions.
• Questions of preparation for the Rio conference in Рио, also
considered on the recent sessions of PC. It was thus specified by
members of Council that it is very important after Rio to give the
report of accredited organisations and inform wide public on all
decisions accepted in Rio.

4. Interaction between different Public
Councils
• There is mailing list between
members of various PC and
website of PC, where members of
different PC can communicate,
exchange experience,
consultations, bring up urgent
questions. There is inter public
council anticorruption group exist,
which prosecutes subjects of a
transparency of accepted decisions
and prevention of corruption in
use of budgetary funds. A number
of public hearings in the several
ministries - education, energy,
public health services took place.

5. Multistakeholder group under EITI
• Also since 2004, Kyrgyzstan has joined to Extractive
industries transparency Intiative, and there is
multistakeholders group ( MSG) exists, under Agency
of geology and mineral resources, This MSG amount
from representatives of the ministries, departments,
representatives of the companies and representatives
of a civil society. The representation this equal, also
discussions reports of the companies and the
Government on EITI occur, the tender commissions
election for selection of auditor company for
verification of the reports of companies and state
bodies get out. Then the report of the auditor company
is considered at MSG session.

6. NGO Consortium on EITI promotion in
Kyrgyz Republic
• In MSG sessions the question
under the Law on subsoils , for
entering into it of points on a
reporting transparency on EITI
and introductions of
disaggregated reports also
was considered. There is also a
Consortium from 20 NGOs on
promotion EITI in
Kyrgyzstan, headed by HDC
“Tree of Life» and having 5
public receptions in regions
with presence of deposits and
the mining companies.

7. Public councils- Institutional tool for
good governance of natural recources
• Thus, in Kyrgyzstan
institutional tools for
participation of all interested
parties in the decision making
process and consideration of
strategic decisions at national
and local levels exist. And
these institutional tools very
important for successful
introduction of principles of
green economy in our
country.