Strong  local communities in Kyrgyzstan sustainable ecologically, socially and economically with  strong local traditions based on continued intergenerational exchange.  

We are actively contributing to sustainable development by enhancing living standards of local communities in Central Asia through building their capacities and skills based on the development, adaptation and implementing of the world, regional and local experience. 

- Financial, advisory, organizational, informational and other support of local communities’ activity and initiatives aimed at developing and improving their living standards.  - Support of local communities in preserving traditional knowledge and heritage (traditions, customs, values) by increasing their capacities and skills, as well as by building  a network of local communities and traditional knowledge keepers in Central Asia for exchange of experiences and best practices.   - Empowering local communities to adapt to climate change using their traditional knowledge and modern knowledge and practices.  

Participation – joint approaches   “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn”.    We focus on supporting the traditional knowledge keepers’ efforts, whose role is to care, represent, explain the knowledge, relations, biological species, forms of art and biocultural sites, passed down  through generations.   Empowering the local NGO, communities and organizations of traditional knowledge keepers in target areas of Kyrgyzstan by giving them an opportunity to implement projects on preservation of traditional knowledge and practices.