📋 Tender Overview
aims at contributing to the improvement of residents’ livelihood in eleven new settlements around Bishkek and Osh cities in Kyrgyzstan. During the project's first phase (2023 – 2027), the GFA team on behalf of SDC is particularly striving for outputs in the improvement of job and income opportunities for women in these areas.
The new settlements emerged in the early 2000s due to land squatting amid the political and social upheaval following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Driven by poverty and unemployment in rural areas, thousands of internal migrants relocated to the cities of Bishkek and Osh. This led to a surge in unauthorized and at times hazardous residential areas. Hence, the new settlements have become home to some of the most vulnerable population groups in newly independent Kyrgyzstan. Studies conducted during the project’s inception phase found residents there facing numerous hardships such as the lack of legal housing documentation, access to school and health services, or clean drinking water facilities (studies conducted at the inception phase of Araket project).
