In 2020, the UN Women and UNDP Kyrgyz country offices and their local partners Roza Otunbayeva Initiative (ROI) and the Community Development Alliance (CDA) kickstarted and spearheaded a series of social innovation initiatives and experiments to explore how the Positive Deviance Approach and the Adaptive Leadership model could solve migration challenges, improve gender equality in families and women’s political participation.
In addition to programmatic use of the PD approach, the goal was to explore how the new national ten-year gender equality strategy could be informed by regional and local successful practices in those domains. The experiences so-far are very interesting and the stories appealing.
Take this opportunity to watch and listen to the fireside chat that we organized with our Kyrgyz colleagues, and positive deviance practitioners and facilitators: Maha Abusamra, Mark Munger, and Monique Sternin.
