USAID administrator Samantha Power allocated 14 million dollars for the people of Uzbekistan

In order to deepen the cooperation of the United States with the people of Uzbekistan, on October 23, the administrator of the United States Agency for International Cooperation (USAID), Samantha Power, arrived in Tashkent, the press service of the Embassy of the United States in Uzbekistan reported. During the visit, he announced an additional $14.2 million to strengthen cooperation in the areas of global health, governance and economic growth. According to the information of the diplomatic mission, the USA will work on the following programs through USAID in return for this additional funding. The fight against tuberculosis "Uzbekistan is struggling with a high level of drug-resistant tuberculosis," the embassy said. USAID launched TB-Free Uzbekistan, a five-year initiative to provide comprehensive support services and an additional $3.2 million investment to increase access to basic TB services across the country. enters. The "TB-Free Uzbekistan" program will help promote health care reforms in Uzbekistan to prevent and detect disease transmission, initiate treatment, reduce the stigma of TB, and improve information systems and financing. Since 2002, it has invested nearly 60 million dollars to support Uzbekistan's efforts in the fight against tuberculosis. Fight against epidemic and pandemic threats USAID cooperates with the Government of Uzbekistan in strengthening global health security. "The $4 million investment will be directed to best practices and lessons learned from USAID-19 measures to increase Uzbekistan's resilience to future threats, epidemics, and pandemics," the report said. It was also noted that this fund will allow Uzbekistan to prepare laboratories and monitoring systems for emergency situations, to strengthen communication and cooperation with the public in times of danger. Strengthening business and private sector USAID is investing $3.5 million to strengthen Uzbekistan's economy in targeted sectors such as tourism, information and communication technologies, and the green economy. This program will help create jobs, improve economic inclusion, develop export markets for small and medium enterprises, and attract capital. USAID works to remove institutional, legal, and economic barriers that make it difficult for women, youth, and people with disabilities to start and run a business. In addition, USAID helps Uzbek businesses adopt American technologies that can improve e-commerce and trade. More responsible and effective local governance In support of the "Uzbekistan-2030" strategy and in cooperation with Congress, USAID will allocate 3.5 million dollars to strengthen regional and local governance in Uzbekistan through the new local governance program. Through this, USAID hopes that regional and local authorities will be more attentive, work together with the people and be responsible, and will have the opportunity to provide better public services to the Uzbek people. As part of this initiative, national and local governments, civil society, and the private sector will work together to increase transparency in local government budgets and expenditures, train public officials to meet new responsibilities, empower citizens and communities to monitor local government operations, and provide public services that meet their needs. aims to provide them with the tools, skills and resources they need to promote. USAID also supports the government in developing data-driven national policies and legislation on decentralization and local governance.

Source: kun.uz