On April 26, the Secretariat of the Business Development and Investments Council under the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic in cooperation with the Secretariat of the Open Government Partnership conducted Forum “OGP for improvement of business environment and investment climate”. The Forum was conducted in frame of the memorandum of understanding and cooperation signed between two Secretariats.

Currently Secretariat of the Business Development and Investments Council under the Government of the KR is actively promoting improvement of the business environment and attractiveness of the investment climate. A lot of issues raised at the BDIC platform are correlating with main principles of the OGP initiative; these issues as regulation of inspections, licenses and permits, digitalization of state services, introduction of one-stop-shop principles and many others. Business community has expressed high interest in cooperation with the OGP in order to improve business environment and investment climate.

Forum participants have discussed status and implementation of the commitments in frame of the first OGP National action plan. Additional attention was raised towards commitments aimed at improvement of entrepreneurship. Moreover, participants have considered and discussed additional proposals for inclusion into the OGP National action plan. As a result of the Forum, participants have approved Forum resolution included all proposals raised by business community and representatives of state organizations.