For Kyrgyzstan, the COVID crisis came in waves. The first was with the Chinese lockdown,and in fact, the Chinese lockdown also had effects and impacton the trade flows in Kyrgyzstan, which then had a loss of revenues and thenyou had a fiscal gap which was created.We're talking about 6 % of GDP, so this is enormous for Kyrgyzstan.The second wave came with a lockdown when we had the first COVID pandemic cases.And that's when you started seeing in fact social economic impact on people,who were made temporarily unemployed, who had no way of getting out and, obviously,that's when the social protection should come in.The response was both at the policy level, working with the government onhow to do it, how to handle it.How to make the measures and working in four different groups, they were set up immediatelyone on macro-financial assistance, one on health, one on food security and social protectionand then the last one on the private sector and SMEs.We were in all of them.And we are still in all of them working every week together with theauthorities to try to make the best response.Our response has been in fact with an EU package of more than €36 million,€30.8 million, in fact, are in budget support, supporting social protection and education,digitalisation.And the other part is working with our partners: with civil societywith implementing partners on projects.And we've had some amazing responses withone of them and some of them have been ongender-based violence with the 'Spotlight Initiative'where we really have seen an increase in domestic violence, unfortunately.Some of them have been personal protective equipment (PPE)I mean simple pragmatic PPE forborder guards and customs officers.And then we've had webinars, creative e-learning initiatives,webinars for journalists and onhow to cover the crisis but also how to fight fake news.We worked so much more together.In fact, with the government, we had these meetings every week with the Minister,the deputy ministers, intersectoral, interministerial, with development partnerswho wanted to be in, out, I mean, you could click and then participate and be an active participantso this was very good.One of the negative things is that with this dynamic sort of energetic way of working togetherevery day.In fact, somehow, it was very quick and we did not manage to get the civil society in,and that's really something that we have to work on because if we geta second wave we have to be ready to find a way of getting to civil society in again.And then for us, I mean, and this is not only for us, but it is for the people,and for the development process,transparency is key.because this is a time where you can go very quickly,and you forget to, sort of, talk about it, and then it becomes an issue at one point.We have to have accountability. We have to have transparency.