On 8. October, I presented the main findings of her research on EU’s support to civil society in Central Asia at the workshop “Human Rights in Central Asia: Troubled Nexuses between Internationalization and State Building” organised by the OSCE Academy in Bishkek, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies. The open lecture was based on 75+ semi-structured interviews collected with EU-funded civil society organisations (CSOs) and implementing partners in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan in the past 10 years and sheds light on the main outcomes and shortcomings of the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR), the Instrument contributing to Stability and Peace (IcSP) and the EU thematic program CSO/LA in development.

- Chiara Pierobon