Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- First Deputy Minister of Preschool and School Education of the Republic of Uzbekistan - Director of the Agency for Preschool Education Agrippina Shin held a meeting with representatives of the IDB, GPO and UNICEF in Uzbekistan.

The foreign side noted the high efficiency of the implemented state policy in terms of the development of preschool education in our country.

GPO Regional Manager Mr. Niels Raisman said that since 2017, the Uzbek side has made impressive progress in the field of early childhood education and upbringing and wished that this growth trend continued in the future.

In turn, the representative of the IsDB, Mr. Mohammad Mirza, announced the readiness of the bank to consider the possibility of implementing additional promising projects in the field of education at the request of the Uzbek side. 

On 27 April 2023, on the sidelines of the Tashkent International Investment Forum, a Loan Agreement was signed between the Government of Uzbekistan and the Islamic Development Bank, under which, by the end of 2027, 120 non-state preschool educational organizations will be built in the regions of the republic on the principles of public-private partnership.

At the same time, the head of the UNICEF education sector in Uzbekistan, Mr. Alberto Biancoli, announced the intentions of the International Children’s Fund to actively assist the Agency for Preschool Education in improving the quality of preschool education in the country, in particular by improving preschool pedagogy, educational and methodological and game materials .

Following the meeting, the parties exchanged gratitude for holding this productive meeting and expressed their commitment to further deepening fruitful cooperation.