Gulmira Asanbaeva

International Labour Office, Geneva, Switzerland
Sustainable Enterprise Development Department

165 Kievskaya Str. apt. # 45

Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

720000

Tel: (996 312) 25 29 55

Gulmira Asanbaeva came to the George Washington University to conduct original research in the fall of 2002. Her research project was sponsored by the Education Network Fellowship Program (ENFP). ENFP is one of the programs financed by the U.S. Agency for International Development. Ms. Asanbaeva’s research objective was to conduct a social analysis of Kyrgyzstan macroeconomic policies and their implications for gender equality. Dr. Stuart Umpleby was her mentor at GW. She studied Economics and International Economics (MA degree) at the Slavonic University in Kyrgyzstan.
Ms. Asanbaeva is now working at ILO Geneva Office on entrepreneurial skills development of youth, including planning and design of youth entrepreneurship promotion strategies as a means towards tackling youth unemployment. This encompasses the work on providing policy advice and capacity building to national governments, workers’ and employers’ organisations in target countries. The topics include enabling environment for youth enterprises, access to affordable financing, and working towards positive entrepreneurial culture.

Specific outcomes concentrate on global coordination of ILO flagship methodology on entrepreneurship education “Know About Business” (www.knowaboutbusiness.org ), development of training contents for both in-school (with a focus on TVET education system) and out-of-school youth. Other work areas include global coordination of another key ILO training service package – Start and Improve Your Business enterprise training programme (www.ilo.org/siyb )

Gulmira worked several years at Moscow Subregional Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia of ILO and provided hands-on support to entrepreneurship development work in post-Soviet republics. Gulmira is a national of Kyrgyzstan, and prior joining ILO she worked at UNDP office in Kyrgyzstan as coordinator of poverty reduction programmes, and lectured at the Institute of European Civilizations of Kyrgyz State Teacher Training University on gender elective courses.

Publications:

“The Role of Higher Educational Institutions in Gender Development,” Gender Development in the Context of Kyrgyzstan, State Pedagogical University and Ministry of Education and Culture, Bishkek, 2000.

“Institutional Mechanisms and Young Women,” excerpt from Democracy in Action, UNIFEM/Youth Caucus of the UN CSW, New York, 2000.“Women’s Rights in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights” University Collection of Scientific Theses, Kyrgyz-Slavonic University, Bishkek, 1995.