initiative, Russian Federation Government funding of the related digital skills for youth employment project, and the Government Cost Sharing being negoti ated to demonstrate commitment to the area of prioritized development under Taza Koom Digital Transformation Agenda. It will be further Supported by other donors working in the field to compl ement the efforts in a well-coordinated manner, building on a whole of a government and whole of a society approach. Partnerships The project main objective to set up Taza Koom innovat ion facility is based on the principles of collaboration and multi-stakeholders partnership among the Government, civil society, women’s groups, business and academia where relevant. Drawin g on existing good practices, UNDP will work closely with the Government's Office, key nationa l institutions engaged into the Taza Koom programme implementation such as State Committee on Information Technology and Communication, State Registry Service, Ministry of Econom y, Ministry of Social Protection and Labour, Municipal services and other, but also the civil society organizations, women's groups, informal institutions,*° business sector representatives. The project has set up close links with the UNDP Regional Innovation Hub and its Knowledge and Innovation Facility, and UNDP Centre for Public Services Excellence based in Singapore. Cooperation with other countries in the region with successful digital transformation and innovation labs projects implemented such as Moldova, Georgia and Armenia is already ongoing and to be further strengthened and deepened. In addition, UNDP will closely collaborate with UNCT, UN GTG and donors’ coordination group set-up on Taza Koom and e-governance, and will continue its close coordination with the Wwe Regional Digital Casa project working in the field of digital infrastructure building. Risks and Assumptions The key risks and assumptions in respect of implementati on of the initiative relate to: * Impetus around Taza Koom as a ICT backbone for long term structural transformation of Kyrgyzstan remain electoral cycles; * e e e a common shared vision by public servants and politicians across National resources are availed for investment in key catalytical Taza Koom interventions that have knock on effect (Accelerator effect) to realiza tion of other aspects of the strategy; Public remains confident of the vision for improved quality of life provided by the initiative linked to the national development interventions: A culture of transformation takes root in a Expertise is amongst fairly short period; retained in delivering interventions and that there is success confidence in the possibility; the younger initial and population, subsequent the engine for innovation, input deployment into in the results of early investments building of public Stakeholder Engagement The target groups will be identified based on previous experiences and lessons learnt. UNDP will facilitate engagement of a wide range of citizens, both men and women, elderly and young, people living with disabilities, representatives of various ethnic groups and confessions. It will continue working with the women’s group and movements throug h the UNITE to End Violence against women and girls national network, SGBV, single mothers and other. Partnership with private and specifically target vulnerable young women, sector survivors of will be particularly targeted under the Innovation Lab experimentation for the three policy/public servic es planned during the initial stage, and to strategically follow under the output 3 on streng thened multi-stakeholder capacity to adopt, plan, integrate, coordinate, track, and use technological innovation and e-governance. “Religious leaders, women Catyncha’, ‘aksakals’) as vital partners in prevention of violent extremism 13