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Status |
Finished |
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Project Period (month-year) |
11/2012 - 02/2013 |
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Keywords |
Coal Market/ Transparency/ Awareness Raising |
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Country/ Location |
Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek |
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Contact person |
Ms. DarikaSulaimanova Email: darika@unison.kg |
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Project Summary |
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Contracting Authority |
IRG USAID |
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Project Partners (+Contact Info) |
Public Fund Libra Antimonopoly Agency in the southern Kyrgyzstan |
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Narrative description/ Abstract of Project Objectives |
This project aimed to develop a map on regional variations in coal prices, to draft of a coal price monitoring report, to organize media-tours, to increase awareness of regional coal price variations and coal quality differences; to respond to critical source of instability during the winter months and to support civil society advocacy on increased government transparency. |
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Description of services provided by Unison |
Weekly monitoring of coal prices were conducted through the Consumer Rights Protection Centers network in Osh, Batken and Jalal-Abad oblasts. The coal supply and demand points (trade points) were mapped in Osh and Jalal-Abad Oblast to inform consumers on the comparative analysis of the final cost of coal and the quality of combustion and coal quality check-points (labs in Bishkek, Osh, mines in Tashkumir, Sulukta, Alai). Tours were offered to media representatives (such as press and television journalists) in Osh during which different properties of the coal (e.g. calorific value, radiation, spontaneous combustion in the open air, properties of ash slag and flue gas, and so forth) were discussed and demonstrated; 100 copies of the coal monitoring report were edited and printed in Russian and Kyrgyz language and distributed to the local villages. |
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Outputs/Impact |
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Project Series |
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Predecessor project |
n/a |
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Successor Project |
BIS 178 – campaign for end consumers with IRG USAID |