Supporting the Economic Empowerment of Afghan women through Education and Training in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

The program, funded by the European Union (EU) and implemented by UNDP, allows Afghan women to study at universities in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. The initiative aims to provide educational opportunities for women from Afghanistan. Overall, within the framework of the program, 50 women will receive education at the universities of Central Asia by 2025.The first group of Afghan women arrived in Almaty in October 2019. In 2020, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan welcomed the new group of winners of the educational scholarship. After completing the language courses, the project participants will receive education at various universities in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan under the bachelor's, master's and TVET (Technical and Vocational education and training)programs in agriculture, finance/statistics and mining. 29 women from Afghanistan will be trained at KBTU. To date, 19 Afghan students have started their studies at the KBTU Business School. Four of them are currently studying under the Bachelor's program "Finance/Statistics", five are receiving MBA in "Finance/Statistics", ten women are the students of the TVET program . In the next academic year (2021-2022) KBTU is preparing to accept 10 more female students from Afghanistan, who plan to study at the Faculty of Geology and Geological Exploration under the TVET Mining Program. https://kbtu.edu.kz/en/poslevuzovskoe-obrazovanie/tvet-en. Photcredit: UNDP Kazakhstan/Alexey Malchenko
Project coordinator: Professor Akzhalova Assel a.akzhalova@kbtu.kz