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.
About us
Our team
PhD, Acting Director of Center for Policy Research and Outreach
PhD, Senior Research Fellow, Agriculture, Water and Rural Development
Research assistant
PhD, DSc, UNESCO Chair
Anticipatory Governance & Sustainable Policymaking
Iroda Amirova
Research Fellow
Senior Research Fellow
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.
