<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?><transcript><text start="0.39" dur="40.079">[Music]</text><text start="42.559" dur="4.401">for kyrgyzstan the kovic crisis came in</text><text start="45.52" dur="3.92">waves in fact the first wave</text><text start="46.96" dur="4.239">was the chinese the chinese lockdown and</text><text start="49.44" dur="4">in fact the chinese lockdown</text><text start="51.199" dur="4.721">also had effects and impact on on the</text><text start="53.44" dur="2.799">trade flows in kyrgyzstan which then had</text><text start="55.92" dur="2.08">a</text><text start="56.239" dur="4">loss of revenues and then you had a</text><text start="58" dur="4.32">fiscal gap which was created</text><text start="60.239" dur="3.761">we&amp;#39;re talking about six per six percent</text><text start="62.32" dur="4.08">of gdp so this is enormous</text><text start="64" dur="4.08">for kegen the second wave came with the</text><text start="66.4" dur="2.719">lockdown when we had the first cases</text><text start="68.08" dur="3.76">coveted crisis</text><text start="69.119" dur="3.841">coveted pandemic cases and that&amp;#39;s when</text><text start="71.84" dur="4.639">you started seeing</text><text start="72.96" dur="4.4">in fact a social economic impact on</text><text start="76.479" dur="3.121">people</text><text start="77.36" dur="4">who were made temporarily unemployed who</text><text start="79.6" dur="4.559">had no way of</text><text start="81.36" dur="6.48">getting out and obviously that&amp;#39;s when</text><text start="84.159" dur="3.681">the social protection should come in</text><text start="89.2" dur="3.599">the response if i was was both at them</text><text start="91.439" dur="3.441">in policy level working with the</text><text start="92.799" dur="2.721">government on how to do it how to handle</text><text start="94.88" dur="2.64">it</text><text start="95.52" dur="3.919">how to make the measures and working in</text><text start="97.52" dur="4">four different groups they were set up</text><text start="99.439" dur="4.161">immediately one on macro financial</text><text start="101.52" dur="4.48">assistance one on health</text><text start="103.6" dur="4.08">one on food security and social</text><text start="106" dur="4.079">protection and then the last one</text><text start="107.68" dur="3.119">private sector and smes we were in all</text><text start="110.079" dur="2.72">of them</text><text start="110.799" dur="3.201">and we are still in all of them working</text><text start="112.799" dur="2.881">every week with</text><text start="114" dur="3.2">the with the together with the</text><text start="115.68" dur="2.32">authorities to try to make the best</text><text start="117.2" dur="3.12">response</text><text start="118" dur="3.439">our response has been in fact with 36</text><text start="120.32" dur="3.759">and package</text><text start="121.439" dur="3.921">eu package of 36 million more than 36</text><text start="124.079" dur="4.641">million euro</text><text start="125.36" dur="4">30.8 million in fact are in budget</text><text start="128.72" dur="2.48">support</text><text start="129.36" dur="3.84">supporting in social protection and</text><text start="131.2" dur="4.64">education digitalization</text><text start="133.2" dur="3.44">and and the other part is working with</text><text start="135.84" dur="2.479">our partners</text><text start="136.64" dur="3.76">with the civil society with our</text><text start="138.319" dur="4.081">implementing partners on projects</text><text start="140.4" dur="3.68">and we&amp;#39;ve had some amazing responses</text><text start="142.4" dur="3.28">with one of them and some of them have</text><text start="144.08" dur="3.44">been on gender-based violence with</text><text start="145.68" dur="3.44">spotlight initiative where we really</text><text start="147.52" dur="4.24">have seen an increase in</text><text start="149.12" dur="4.56">domestic violence unfortunately some of</text><text start="151.76" dur="3.119">them have been ppe i mean simple</text><text start="153.68" dur="3.68">pragmatic ppe</text><text start="154.879" dur="3.521">to for border guards and customs</text><text start="157.36" dur="3.68">officers</text><text start="158.4" dur="4.72">and then we&amp;#39;ve had webinars creative</text><text start="161.04" dur="3.36">e-learning initiatives webinars for</text><text start="163.12" dur="3.68">journalists and</text><text start="164.4" dur="7.44">on on how to cover the crisis but also</text><text start="166.8" dur="5.04">how to fight the fake news</text><text start="173.68" dur="3.6">we worked so much more together in fact</text><text start="176.4" dur="3.44">with the government</text><text start="177.28" dur="4.8">we had these meetings every week with</text><text start="179.84" dur="4.88">the minister the deputy ministers</text><text start="182.08" dur="4.079">inter-sectoral inter-ministerial with</text><text start="184.72" dur="2">the development partners who wanted to</text><text start="186.159" dur="2.561">be in</text><text start="186.72" dur="3.28">out i mean you could click and then</text><text start="188.72" dur="2.799">participate and be</text><text start="190" dur="4.159">active participants so this was very</text><text start="191.519" dur="5.681">good one of the negative things is that</text><text start="194.159" dur="4.241">with this dynamic sort of energetic way</text><text start="197.2" dur="4.399">of working together</text><text start="198.4" dur="5.839">every i mean every day in fact somehow</text><text start="201.599" dur="3.601">and it was very quick and we did not</text><text start="204.239" dur="2.72">manage to get the</text><text start="205.2" dur="3.44">civil society in and that&amp;#39;s really</text><text start="206.959" dur="3.28">something that we have to work on</text><text start="208.64" dur="2.48">because if we get a second wave we have</text><text start="210.239" dur="2.321">to be ready</text><text start="211.12" dur="4.24">to find a way of getting the civil</text><text start="212.56" dur="4.319">society in again and then for us i mean</text><text start="215.36" dur="2.959">and it&amp;#39;s not only for us but</text><text start="216.879" dur="3.601">for but for the people for the</text><text start="218.319" dur="4">development partners i mean again i mean</text><text start="220.48" dur="3.839">transparency is key</text><text start="222.319" dur="4.321">because this is a time where you can go</text><text start="224.319" dur="3.92">very quickly and you forget to sort of</text><text start="226.64" dur="3.04">talk about it and then it becomes an</text><text start="228.239" dur="4.72">issue at one point we have to have</text><text start="229.68" dur="3.279">accountability we have to have</text><text start="237.4" dur="3">transparency</text></transcript>