Kyrgyzstan
Economic Reform to Enhance Competiteveness Program (EREC)
USAID 2008 - 2008
OSC is designing a media, communications, and taxpayer education strategy for the Kyrgyz State Tax Inspectorate (STI). Technical assistance includes: designing an internal STI organizational structure to support taxpayer education and media activities; assisting STI and project staff to develop a program that will substantially improve taxpayer education and public outreach; providing public outreach capacity building to STI and project staff; and assisting project staff to prepare a taxpayer awareness survey. OSC is also assisting the STI to design and launch a website to promote new tax laws, including creating tax specific navigation pages and creating graphic content and links for stakeholder organizations to place on their websites.
Program for Public Education and Information
USAID 1995-1996
OSC increased public participation in a mass privatization program by delivering public education support to local partners that included public relations training and media outreach. OSC introduced the first-ever weekly interactive television broadcast, "Call-in Thursday," winner of two national awards for journalistic excellence. OSC created the State Property Fund Roundtable Group, a weekly meeting of journalists, economic reform experts, and government officials. OSC also organized the International Conference on Privatization in the Kyrgyz Republic.