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This is the third story in Central Asia Solidarity Groups’ 2025 series about our partnerships across Central Asia. Together with ISDS and El-Too, Little Earth’s work shows how local organizations translate knowledge, cooperation, and sustainability into tangible results that improve lives and protect fragile environments. While the earlier stories focused on biodiversity, youth engagement, and cultural environmental action in Kyrgyzstan, this final post takes us to the high mountain villages of Tajikistan, where clean energy and women’s leadership have reshaped everyday life. In the remote Yagnob Valley of Tajikistan, surrounded by steep mountains and scattered high altitude villages, the...

As part of Central Asia Solidarity Groups’ 2025 series highlighting our partnerships across Central Asia, this story continues from our previous post about ISDS’s work in strengthening community resilience and biodiversity protection. While ISDS focused on wetlands and environmental education, El-Too’s initiatives show how the same regional cooperation has inspired new forms of local action, creativity, and community participation in Kyrgyzstan. In the mountains and semi-desert plains of Kyrgyzstan, the organization El-Too has spent the past three years working with farmers, students, and local authorities to turn ecological awareness into everyday practice. What began as a project to promote...

Throughout 2025, Central Asia Solidarity Groups worked closely with local civil society organizations across Central Asia to strengthen community resilience, environmental protection, and women’s and youth empowerment. This blog post is part of a three-part series highlighting stories from our partners ISDS, El-Too, and Little Earth each showing how collaboration and local knowledge continue to shape sustainable change beyond the project’s initial three years. Centralasiengrupperna works together with local civil society organizations across Central Asia, promoting gender equality, protecting the environment, and building stronger, more resilient communities. One of our partners is the Institute for Sustainable Development Strategy (ISDS)...

We invite members and friends of Central Asia Solidarity Groups to our online annual meeting on April 6, 2025, at 14:00 PM. The annual meeting will feature a presentation of CAG’s work in 2024, including financial overviews, as well as the action plan for 2025, and the election of a new board and a chairperson (see agenda for more information). A link to the online meeting will be shared via email with registered participants closer to the meeting date. Annual report 2024 Årsredovisning 2024 Annual plan 2025 Annual meeting agenda...

We are sharing updates from our residents, Johanna and Susanna, who recently completed their residencies at Novi Ritm, our long-standing partner in Osh, Kyrgyzstan. In this post, they reflect on their experience at Novi Ritm’s Girls’ Day Conference, a powerful celebration of sisterhood and young women’s dreams for the future. Every year on October 11, the world comes together to celebrate International Day of the Girl Child. This special day, declared by the United Nations in 2011, is a call for action to address challenges girls face globally. It is a day to empower girls, advocate for their rights...

I juni 2024 reste Jona Elfdahl och Etta Säfve, permakulturexperter och konstnärer på Gylleboverket, till Kirgizistan för att träffa CAG:s lokala partner El Too och besöka permakulturprojekt i de norra delarna av landet. Läs deras berättelse nedan. De snöklädda topparna på bergen omger oss när vi ligger i vattnet i den turkosa sjön. Snart går solen ner och vi ska lägga oss i den jurta som är vårt hem för några dagar under vår två veckor långa vistelse i Kirgizistan. Vi är här för att besöka och utbyta erfarenheter och kunskaper med 7 olika platser som med hjälp av...

Featured image: Meerim Omurzakova, second from the right, with Novi Ritm volunteers. Since 2013, Central Asia Solidarity Groups and Novi Ritm have been working together to empower youth, particularly girls and women, in southern Kyrgyzstan. Our shared aim is that the local youth is well-informed about their rights and actively engage in the protection of human rights. This participations is seen as a vital component for cultivating a democratic and inclusive civil society at all levels. Novi Ritm has a mentorship program designed to forge connections between experienced individuals with prior engagement in the organization’s activities and volunteers newly...

Vi välkomnar medlemmar och vänner till Centralasiengruppernas årsmöte online, lördagen den 23 mars 2024 kl. 10:00. Årsmötet består av en presentation av CAGs arbete under år 2023, inklusive ekonomi, aktivitetsplan, val av nya styrelseledamöter och ordförande. (Se agendan för mer information). En länk till mötet kommer att delas närmare mötesdatumet. Annual meeting agenda Annual report 2023 Årsredovisning 2023 Annual Plan 2024...