Medium Term Development Program of the Kyrgyz Republic.

The Medium Term Development Program is a multi-sectoral national Program of the Kyrgyz Republic covering the period of 2012-2014. The main goal of the Program is to increase living standard of the population and poverty alleviation based on economic growth, improvement of business environment and development of the efficient governance system. According to the Program, agricultural policy will focus on solution of following key objectives: growth of production volume and quality of agricultural products; increasing of yield of the crop production and livestock-breeding; extension of irrigation systems, water use optimization; development of the land market; cooperative development; and increasing access of the rural producers to financial resources, crediting and leasing development.The Program notes that considerable attention will be paid to improving the investment climate for addressing national environmental problems. Also, as part of measures to enhance biodiversity conservation and sustainable use of natural resources, capacity-building activities of the network of protected areas and restoration of forest ecosystems will be carried out.Further, the Government intends to ensure fair public access to sources of economic growth and to manage economic growth in the interests of the poor. The reforms underway in the system of government administration, including the fight against corruption, will promote transparent management in the process of forming revenues from economic activities and the effective use thereof in the interests of the poor population. The Government will continue policy of extension of the credit-financial institutions financing the agriculture in order to increase access of the rural producers to financial resources and crediting and leasing development. Access to credit funds will be ensured through both direct financial support of the state and creation of conditions to reduce interest rates of the credit institutions.Also, the Government will facilitate development of the processing enterprises based on principles of the public-private partnership with further delivery of the state’s part to the private sector. The Government will provide marketing assistance to promote agricultural and processed goods on the foreign markets. Modern system of the good certification will be developed. Promotion of production of the environment friendly goods using organic technology for the export will be important area. Mechanism of monitoring of the wholesale and retail markets for agricultural goods and mechanism of price stabilization with a help of the public procurements and commodity interventions will be developed to reduce risk of speculation of the agricultural goods. The Government will prepare annual forecast of demand and supply in the agricultural sector and provide support for functioning of the informational resource. Development of the irrigation systems will be supported and measures on land market development will be performed. Finally, first-priority support will be provide for the rural cooperatives and export-oriented clusters ensuring growth of production volume and creating new jobs.In the area of disasters, the Government intends to create an advanced state system of Civil Protection of the Kyrgyz Republic. Addressing this will involve development of a strategic legal and regulatory framework for civil protection; improving monitoring and forecasting of natural disasters and catastrophes; timely preventive, protective measures and international cooperation in the area of prevention and emergency response.Coherent actions of all stakeholders in realization of the annual plans of the Program will be ensured under general coordination of the Prime-Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic. The Program will be implemented through design and fulfillment of annual plans together with package of national projects using the budget and off-budget sources of financing. Based on monitoring data, effectiveness of the program implementation will be evaluated regularly. Based on these results, political decisions will be made regarding selection of alternative options on further steps in implementation of three year Program, resource re-distribution and their optimal use, proving coordination of efforts with the donor community, better satisfaction of expectation of the society.