[{"bbox": [82, 105, 1153, 159], "category": "Text", "text": "empowerment but is an outlet for youth who might otherwise be attracted to radical ideas. After a wide consultation process, the EU Central Asia Strategy (2019)⁷ included education and rule of law as measures to prevent radicalism."}, {"bbox": [82, 170, 1147, 278], "category": "Text", "text": "Investment in education measured by expenditure on education as a proportion of GDP is relatively high but spending per student is low. The main cost of the education budget is teachers' salaries. Expenditures in education have increased over the past years but the structure of spending has remained the same: nearly 93% of funds are allocated for recurrent costs, and only 7% for capital in 2019 and 2020. The non-wage costs of the sector are underfinanced."}, {"bbox": [82, 288, 1155, 503], "category": "Text", "text": "The immediate and medium-term measures in the education sector of Kyrgyzstan have been put synergistically with the broader national campaigns and programmes underway. One of the flagship initiatives of the Kyrgyz Government - presented in 2019 - has been the Digital Transformation Roadmap 2019-2023 - a campaign for a transparent and effective system of e-governance that is underpinned by a robust national strategy of digital transformation in every sphere of social, economic, and political life. To ensure an alignment with this overriding policy agenda, the Ministry of Education and Science (MoES) has elaborated in its Education Action Plan 2021-2023 a special focus on post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and human resources necessary for the country's digitalisation."}, {"bbox": [82, 514, 1147, 701], "category": "Text", "text": "EU support to education development in partner countries is based on specific national and regional contexts and needs, contributing to priorities agreed as part of national policy dialogue and sector plans. This country-level support is framed by the EU's policy commitments, its response to global political, economic, demographic, social and environmental challenges, to global trends in education and to all countries' endorsement of the SDGs. Education is the foundation for all 5 priorities such as Digital, Science, Technology and Innovation; Green Deals; Alliances for Sustainable Growth and Development; Migration Partnerships, highlighted by the Commission and a vehicle to achieve the SDGs, in particular Goals 4 (Education for all) and 5 (Gender equality)."}, {"bbox": [82, 712, 1147, 873], "category": "Text", "text": "The programme is in line with the principles identified in the new European Consensus on Development⁸, the EU Strategy for Central Asia (2019) and the European Council's updated Recommendation on Key Competences for Lifelong Learning (2018)⁹. The action also seeks synergies with the EU Green Deal¹⁰, Gender Action Plan III¹¹ and European Digital Partnership priorities¹² by promoting whenever feasible focus on promotion of green skills through revising the learning and teaching methods, digitalisation of education and associated digital and media skills development opportunities that enhance sustainability, accessibility and equality for girls and boys."}, {"bbox": [82, 883, 1147, 1018], "category": "Text", "text": "There is a gap between the country's international legal commitments to provide universal free and quality education and the reality. The EU intends through the proposed complementary support to contribute to the civil society organisations' actions targeted at improving the inclusion and skills development of marginalised children, including those left behind due to labour migration, out-of-school children, young people affected by violence, disadvantaged girls, children with disabilities, including strengthening the social dialogue with the education stakeholders."}, {"bbox": [86, 1047, 326, 1079], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 2.2. Problem Analysis"}, {"bbox": [82, 1104, 1147, 1318], "category": "Text", "text": "The challenges of the country education system are interrelated. At the same time, it is particularly helpful - from a time-bound sector reform perspective - to prioritise and concentrate on a few critical ones. Three challenges of access for all, quality and equity in the education sector of Kyrgyzstan stand out as most pressing, with most crosscutting implications and transformative potential. The EU intends to continue supporting education policy and skills development, addressing low functional literacy in primary and secondary education, promoting inclusiveness and gender equality, including better integration in the teaching and learning of 21st century skills. This entails improving the quality of teaching and upskilling through innovative pedagogical and child-centred approaches and by establishing productive social dialogue with the educational stakeholders."}, {"bbox": [82, 1328, 1147, 1410], "category": "Text", "text": "The current education system does not deliver for everyone, and there is a risk of leaving people behind, especially people with disabilities. Meanwhile, children with disabilities are often unable to go to school due to absence of specialised teacher staff. Good quality, equal and inclusive education provide opportunities for everybody to develop"}, {"bbox": [72, 1443, 629, 1469], "category": "Footnote", "text": "⁷ https://www.consilium.europa.eu/media/39778/st10221-en19.pdf"}, {"bbox": [72, 1467, 1159, 1538], "category": "Footnote", "text": "⁸ Joint statement by the Council and the Representatives of the governments of the Member States meeting within the Council, the European Parliament and the European Commission on the New European Consensus on Development - \"Our World, Our Dignity, Our Future\", 7 June 2017. OJ C 210."}, {"bbox": [72, 1539, 1100, 1565], "category": "Footnote", "text": "⁹ https://ec.europa.eu/education/education-in-the-eu/council-recommendation-on-key-competences-for-lifelong-learning_en"}, {"bbox": [72, 1564, 1007, 1589], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹⁰ https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?qid=1576150542719&uri=COM%3A2019%3A640%3AFIN"}, {"bbox": [72, 1588, 802, 1613], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹¹ https://ec.europa.eu/international-partnerships/system/files/join-2020-17-final_en.pdf"}, {"bbox": [72, 1612, 933, 1637], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹² https://ec.europa.eu/international-partnerships/system/files/swd-digital4development-part1-v3_en.pdf"}, {"bbox": [1051, 1662, 1158, 1687], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 5 of 30"}]