Westminster International University in Tashkent (WIUT) launched the Center for Policy Research & Outreach (CPRO) in 2018 in response to research and outreach demands among the Uzbek government and international donor partners. CPRO supports the education and research missions of WIUT.
The Center is a platform where experts, policymakers, and implementing agencies come together for dialogue supported by evidence leading to more robust decisions and better operations. The outputs of the Center effectively respond to specific policy and outreach requests of the government, private sector, and civil society by pulling together experts to engage in new, collaborative, and interdisciplinary projects. Active participation of clients grounds the Center's consulting, capacity development, and policy research and outreach work.
SOME OF OUR PROJECTS
About us
OUR TEAM
OUR MISSION
Excel
Excel as a think tank in evidence-based, high-quality research, analysis, and public outreach on a wide range of policy issues, advancing the debate, and facilitating cooperation among relevant actors.
Promote
Promote research and policy dialogue with external knowledge partners at national and international levels, and work together to secure funding and sponsorship.
Create
Organize and create high-level policy & action briefs, working papers, case studies, and social media products.
OUR SERVICES
Policy research and analysis
Policy engagement and outreach
Independent consulting
Capacity building and training
RESEARCH
WIUT researchers have been examining issues around agricultural labor, the national education system, skills and workplace productivity for years. The country’s national employment strategy highlights the importance of jobs and growing new and better work for its people.
With partners from IFPRI, ILO, and the ADB, WIUT has established itself as a leader in the area of agricultural economics and rural policy. This broad multi-sector area includes the unique challenges of areas in transition, from migration, to quality of services, to the ramifications for housing, health, and education in rural areas..
With recent heavy investment in transportation, energy, and trade along this large corridor there remain many challenges and questions for researchers to explore from a multidisciplinary perspective. As relationships across Central Asia have warmed, there is continued interest in development of resources, such as water, across borders.
CPRO Futures & Foresight publishes articles which focus on methods that aid anticipation of the future in various sectors. We use international experience and method that particularly analyze the future potential and prospects of the country’s growth and the Central Asian region as a whole.
