Government, civil society organizations, women’s movements and the main target groups — women, youth and vulnerable populations’. UNDP, building on its cooperation with development partners, will support the country in securing and sustai ning the recent gains and promote peace, justice, equality and the rule of law. The assistance will focus on accountability, transparency, the effectiveness and efficiency of institutions to respon d to citizens’ expectations for equality, rule of law and justice, more effective gender-oriented service s, and economic development related to digital transformation process. Particularly, the project will be working on institutional capacity development of key agencies involved in ICT-enabled public sector transformation providing them with required knowledge and expertise on innovative approaches to policy devel opment and implementation, effective coordination mechanisms, enabling legislative and regulatory basis for collaboration and integration within the Government, civil and private sectors and academia. It will contribute to achieving broader SDGs by supporting Government institutions in the development of high priority citizen-centric and citizen-driven e-services and making them accessible and affordable both in urban and rural areas, providing new opportunities for citizens’ participation in decision making processes. Creation of collaborative and effective institutiona l framework for digital transformation: To be able to translate policy into delivery and deliver concrete and measurable results, the project will focus on strengthening institutional Capacity of the key Government agencies to ensure Strategic e-leadership. Expert support to lead change management process under “Taza Koom” programme engaging best public administration Manag ement mechanisms such as performance management and innovative approaches to policy making such as foresight will be provided. The capacity of high level civil servants will be strengthened to lead and manage the change process and effective governance structure operationalization . This will help to lead and coordinate “Taza Koom” strategy implementation to provide strategic direction and guidance to various ministries, agencies and departments of the Kyrgyz Government in digital transformation process. The project will provide support to set up a Digital Transformation Office under the Government’s Office and State Committee of Information Technologies and Communications developing procedures that will clearly identify roles and responsibilities between the Government's Office’s related structures and the SCITC, line ministries and other relevant stakeholders, that will be responsible for conducting and reporting on the results of prioritized projects and policies implementation under the Taza Koom strategy. The project will design the most suitable Taza Koom programme implementation evaluation tool to be used by the Digital Transformation Office, based on consultations with stakeholders and existing instru ments available. It should include development of key performance indicators and the framework that will allow the Government's Office to evaluate performance of his cabinet and the ministr ies charged with Taza Koom objectives and sub-tasks, and report to the Parliament and public. Establishing Government CIO System will be anothe r area of focus under effective institutional framework for digital transformation process. Gover nment-wide GCIO (Government Chief Information Officer) system to ensure e-leadership at the level of individual ministries and agencies to facilitate collaboration across government bodies will be set up. The GCIO system will help to focus on coordination of various projects and initiat ives with different funding sources from the State budget, donor organizations, NGOs and private sector ensuring effectiveness and efficiency of the projects. The GCIO system will help to foster collaboration among different ministries and agencies while implementing interdependent and inter-related projects and delivering integrated eservices, to maintain appropriate inventory of “Taza Koom” related projects and _ initiatives, financial, technical and human resources involved in such projects, IT/ICT platforms and products, and to ensure interoperability of sectoral/ inter-sector al information systems. The expertise and guidance will be provided to design and develop information systems and e-services, engaging stakeholders and buildin g partnership. "Rural and urban poor, women-headed households, rural women, unemployed youth, minorities, people with disabilities, populations at higher risk of HIV, people living with HIV/AIDS. 7