1. PHYSICAL CONDITIONS

Since 1927, the city has been the administrative center of Naryn Oblast and Rayon. It was founded near the fortifications located on the trade route to Kashgar. The city is situated on the eastern part of the Middle Naryn Valley at the height of 2,020-2,040 meters above sea level at the foot of the Naryn-Too mountains. The majority of the territory is a narrow strip extending along the south bank of the Naryn river, except for a small part of the city jutting across to the northern bank. The city is located 180 km south of the railway station in Balykchy. The distance to the border with the Peoples? Republic of China at Torugart Pass is 180 km. The area of the city is 4,051 hectares as of November 1, 1989.

The CLIMATE is sharply continental and arid. The winter is cold and lasts for 145-165 days. The average temperature in January is -17 ??; sometimes reaching ? 38??. The summer is dry and moderately warm. The average temperature in July is + 18??. The average annual rainfall is 250-300 mm.

The POPULATION of the city was 40, 974 people at the beginning of 2001; including 19,372 men and 21,622 women; representing 48% and 52%, respectively. For the last 20 years, the average annual increase of the population has been 620 people per year. The population mainly practices Islam.

2. ECONOMY

Naryn city is the administrative center of both Naryn Oblast and Naryn Rayon. Public and business organizations providing services to the rayon and oblast, as well as oblast and rayon administrative departments of ministries and agencies are situated in the city. The Bishkek-Naryn-Torugart highway, a regional transit highway of great significance for the economic development of the city and the whole oblast, runs through Naryn City.

REGIONAL GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT averaged 274.9 mln.soms per year or 6,709 soms per capita according to data for the past 3 years. The composition of RGDP by sector is a as follows: industrial sector 114.6 mln. soms per year; retail sector 30.6 mln. soms; services sector 38.6 mln. soms; and construction and assembling works 91.1 mln. soms.

In the city, there are 33 Joint Stock Companies, 49 Limited Liablity companies, more than 40 enterprises providing different services to the population and about 60 small and medium enterprises processing agricultural products. There are also 38 cafes and canteens.

OCCUPATION BY SECTORS AND CATEGORIES

Occupied in the public sector ? 5, 116 people, including:

• Education - 1,621 people
• Health - 1,638 people
• Other government departments - 1,857 people

Unemployment was 3,040 people; including 2,603 persons unemployed for a long period. There are 120 seasonal workers. There were 317 unemployed people who had competed retraining.
Number of unemployed in 1996 - 2000:

STRUCTURE OF HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURES:

• Purchase of food for home ? 51.0 %
• Purchase of inedible goods ? 29.3 %
• Purchase of goods for daily use, medicines and detergents ? 7.3 %
• Payments for social services - 12.4 %

BANKS AND OTHER FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS:

• Naryn branch of JSC Bank ?Kyrgyzstan?
• Naryn branch of JSC ?Promstroibank?
• Naryn branch of JSC ?Dos Credo Bank?
• Naryn branch of JSC Bank of the Settlement and Saving Company
• Naryn branch of JSC Bank of Agricultural Corporation; and

6 credit unions and a center for micro-credit lending at the Naryn Oblast Labor Department.

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTIONS:

• Free Economic Zone (FEZ) ?Naryn?
• Business center for support of small and medium enterprises
• Department of trade, small and medium business
• Naryn regional center for support of small and medium business.
• ?Counterpart? Center for providing assistance to local NGOs and the population
• Naryn city council for economic development.

EXISTING COMMUNAL BUILDINGS AND COMMUNAL BUILDINGS UNDER CONSTRUCTION THAT ARE AVAILABLE FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT:

• Semi-constructed hospital in the Maten Sadykov micro district
• Two semi-constructed 36-flat houses in the Hippodrome micro district
• Six warehouses with total area of about 8, 000 square meters.
• Complete information on land and infrastructure owned by the city will be available after the systematic registration of land parcels is finished.

OTHER ECOMOMIC INFORMATION
16 companies were registered and operating in the Naryn Free Economic Zone as of 01/01/02. The office of ?Torygart? Customs and the consular department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic are situated in the city. There are tourism companies and hotels ?Sky Mountain? with 25 places, ?Ala-Too?- with 200 places, ?Kerme- Too?- with 18 places, sanatorium ?Salkyn-Tor? with a hotel complex with 15 places.

MAIN CHALLENGES:

• Remoteness from railways
• Small domestic market with low purchasing power
• Absence of long-term investment funds
• Lack of locally produced energy resources and their high cost
• Under-development of market infrastructure

3. STRUCTURE OF LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT:

ORGANIZATION OF THE CITY KENESH and additional committees:

The City Kenesh consists of 21 deputies. The following standing committees are formed of 19 deputies:
1. Committee for social and economic development, budget and taxes ? 5 deputies. The Chairman is Aidaraliev A., Head of the heating and energy department.
2. Committee for development of small and medium business - 5 deputies. The Chairman is Mamyrov A., Chairman of JSC ?Narynavto?.
3. Committee on health, education and social security of the population ? 5 deputies. The Chairman is Dosova L., Teacher of the secondary school named after Chikalov.
4. Committee on development of cultural and national traditions, customs, work with the youth and advocacy of healthy life style ? 4 deputies. The Chairman is Toregeldiev A. ? deputy of city kenesh.

• ORGANIZATIONAL CHART OF THE CITY ADMINISTRATION (institutions included):

Employees of state founded enterprises providing services to the city:

4. PUBLIC SERVICES:

4.1. HEALTH:
Oblast, rayon and city health establishments provide similar services in all spheres of health protection. Currently the health sector is at the stage of re-organization within the reform of the entire sector.

HEALTH CARE ESTABLISHMENTS:

HEALTH CARE INDICATORS:

• Number of doctors for 1000 people ? 2.25, while the average in the Republic is 3 per 1000 people.
• Coverage of children?s immunization and health care programs
• Children under 1 year of age ? 99.5%.
• Children from 1 to 7 ? 98.8%
• Infant mortality rate: 39.3 per 1000 births, versus the average republican index of 39.2 per 1000 births.

SERVICES FOR THE NARYN RAYON VILLAGES SURROUNDING THE CITY are provided by the Naryn rayon hospital.

ANTICIPATED INFLUENCE OF DEMOGRAPHIC TENDENCIES for the next 10 years ? the previous tendency of increase of the urban population by 620 people per year is expected to continue.

MAIN CHALLENGES:

• Deficiency and absence of medical equipment for general examination of patients
• Lack of budget funds to purchase of medicines and pharmaceuticals to provide first aid.
• Low level of working conditions for medical workers (absence of central heating and poor condition of rooms).
• Absence and lack of periodic medical literature to maintain the educational level of medical workers.

4.2. EDUCATION:
In general, the city bears full responsibility for management of kindergartens and secondary schools including both maintenance of facilities and the provision of instruction. Wages of teachers and tutors are paid through he city budget although the funds originate from categorical grants from the central government. The oblast level is in charge of professional and technical training and the republican level is responsible for provision of higher education.

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND NUMBER OF STUDENTS

EDUCATIONAL LEVEL Literacy among the adults is 97%.
The share of the economically active adult population with higher and unfinished higher education is 14.9%. The share of the economically active adult population with vocational/special secondary education is 18%.

TECHNICAL EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS AND TRAINING COURSES OFFERED:
Vocational School ?87 offers courses on the following professions ? carpentry, cooking and secretary-typist skills. Job placement witin one year of completing vocational training averages 50%.
The Special Vocational School in Dostuk township deals with training of farmers and machine-operators. However, currently the special vocational school does not operate due to lack of funds from the Oblast.

MAIN CHALLENGES:

• Provision of manuals (for Russian ?speaking classes, only 59% of students have manuals and for Kyrgyz-speaking classes only 65% have manuals)
• Provision of city schools with school furniture (currently only 70% of students have adequate furniture).
• Absence of laboratory and practical equipment and re-agents for physics, chemistry and biology classes.
• Shortage of 6 classrooms in both schools ?9 and ?10. .
• Several schools urgently require capital repairs to maintain the structural integrity of the buildings
• High proportion of children quitting school.

4.3. HOUSING SECTOR:
The City Department of Communal Property Management acts on behalf of the City of Naryn in executing its responsibilities in the housing sector; although almost all housing has been privatized.

QUANTITY, TYPE AND CONDITION OF PROPERTY

There are about 6,896 housing units with total area of 439,275 sq. m. and living space of 337,904 sq. m. in the city. There are 2,076 apartments with total area of 92,607 m² and living space of 60,099 m², of which there are:
- 264 communally owned apartments with total area of 13,299 m ² and living space of 8,348 m².; and
- 1,812 privatized apartments with total area of 79,308 m ² and living space of 51,751 m².

There are 16 condominiums created in the city, including 46 buildings/790 apartments with total area of 41,310 m² and living space of 26,938 m².
Proportion of the housing stock with a degree of depreciation 0% to 20% is 21.7% of the total; with a degree of depreciation from 21% to 40% is 51.0% of the total; and with a degree of depreciation above 40% is 27.3% of the total housing in the city.

ADMINISTRATIVE AND SOCIAL BUILDINGS: 70 administrative, social and communal facilities with the total value of 144.9 million soms are supported from the local budget and self-financed.

MAIN CHALLENGES:
- insufficient financing of the department for communal property management
- huge arrears for apartment fees and for public utilities
- high costs of heating and electricity.

4.4 SOCIAL PROTECTION
The City Department of Social Protection, on behalf of the city, is responsible for execution of republican, oblast and city programs of social assistance to the population.

PROGRAMS: The programs are designed to provide support to low-income city residents through compensation of communal services fees and electricity costs and also through programs for provision of medical care. In 2001, assistance in compensation of services was rendered in the amount of 2,684 thousand soms during 2001.

Poverty level for 2001

MAIN CHALLENGES: It is impossible to dedicate enough budgetary funds to social payments to fully cover the amounts due to low-income residents of the city as the Law stipulates.

4.5. MARKETS / DISTRIBUTION FACILITIES:
The City Department for Trade and Small-scale and Medium-scale Businesses executes monitoring of trade and markets on behalf of the city.

The volume of wholesale trade is unusually small because all goods are delivered to the city by small shipments on vehicles. The average annual volume of wholesale trade is only about 1,025.0 mln soms.

Retail trade is conducted in 6 private markets, in 88 fixed shops and in a large number of trade outlets and booths. The average annual volume is about 192.4 mln. soms.

MAIN CHALLENGES:

• The city is not a transport center for trade promotion in the oblast
• High tariffs for transport services
• Low purchasing power of city residents
• Small markets
• Lack of heated warehouses.

OPPORTUNITIES:
Construction of a railway through the oblast will increase trade in the region, although not necessarily in the city.

4.6. WATER SUPPLY:
Water supply to districts connected to the water supply networks is executed by the Naryn Water Enterprise, which is not a city funded enterprise. The city has transferred rights of economic management of city owned water supply assets to the Naryn Water Enteprise on the basis of a contract with the city to provide water services.

DISTRIBUTION of WATER SUPPLY TO CITY RESIDENTS /OTHER SOURCES: 60.5% of city residents are covered with piped water through the networks, while the remaining 39.5% of residents use the water from springs, wells and surface water.
MAIN NON-RESIDNTION CONSUMERS OF DRINKING WATER: The main non-residential consumers of drinking water are the following categories: public utilities enterprises (hospitals, schools, kindergartens, saunas etc.); private shops, cafes, canteens; enterprises manufacturing mineral waters, alcoholic drinks, flour and flour products, etc.; and state and public organizations. The total consumption requirement for drinking water was estimated at 8, 010 ?3/per day in 2001. The rated capacity of existing water scoops was 9,000 ?3/per day, while the actual water consumption of piped water was 5,826 ?3/per day. With an estimated growth rate of population of 2% per year, the city population will reach 45,100 people by 2006 with total consumption requirements for drinking water of 9,614?3/per day.

Consumption Requirements for drinking water during 2001-2006.

DATA ON QUALITY, QUANTITY AND CONTINUITY OF PIPED WATER SUPPLY:
The quality of piped water is generally corresponding to the standards. However, the quality of the water supplied from Ak-Bechel water scoop distinctly becomes worse during spring-summer floods, at which time, bacteriological and chemical contamination indicators exceed the norms by 100 or more times. The quality of water from certain low capacitive wells, springs and surface waters used by 39.5% of city residents often do not meet the standards.

FINANCIAL CONDITIONS:
The billed revenues in 2001 were 948.5 thousand soms, whereas costs were 907.7 thousand soms. So, the established tariffs should allow recovery of all the costs. However, during 2001, only 40-50% of the billed revenues were collected. Many budgetary entities did not pay for rendered services on time. Total accounts receivable as of 01/01/02 were 1,708 thousand soms or two times annual billed revenues. This included 708 thousand soms due from republican budgetary entities, 387 thousand soms from oblast budgetary entities, 238 thousand soms from rayon budgetary entities and 299 thousand soms from the city budgetary entities.

Accounts payable as of 01/01/02 were around 421 thousand soms. The residual value of the main assets was 9, 211 thousand soms.

MAIN CHALLENGES:

• Deterioration of water supply networks, which were constructed in the 1950-1960?s. About 50% of water pipes require capital repairs.
• Absence of distributing networks needed for connection to the central water supply system in many districts of the city.
• Existing filters are not designed for purification of contaminated flood waters
• Decline in flow of springs feeding Ak-Bachel water scoop during the past several years.
• ?Batysh? water scoop with distributing network in the western part of the city has not finished construction and only 10% of its capacity is used
• Lack of equipment, devices, instruments, glassware for the laboratory for water quality control and effectiveness of liquid waste treatment
• Poor collection of fees for rendered services; especially from budgetary entities.

4.7. SEWERAGE SYSTEM:
The Naryn Water Enterprise provides sewerage services.
POPULATION USING SERVICES OF THE HEADER SYSTEM FOR TREATMENT FACILITIES /other methods of liquid wastes disposal (local treatment systems): 22.8% of city residents use the central sewerage system and 8% use local treatment facilities; which makes about 12 thousand people served in total. The remaining 69.2% of city residents (29 thousand people) uses septic tanks, cesspits or outdoor toilets.
CAPACITY OF TREATMENT AND DISPOSAL FACILITIES: The length of sewerage system is 26.3 km. The design capacity of treatment and disposal facilities is 6,000 m3/per day. In reality, only 2,200 m3 of wastes /per day are collected and treated.

FINANCIAL CONDITION:
The billed revenues in 2001 were 697.1 thousand soms, whereas costs were 717.1 thousand soms. Thus, the existing tariffs should allow recovery of 97% of all costs. However, in 2001 only 40-50% of billed revenues were actually collected. Many of the budgetary entities and organizations could not afford paying for rendered services on time. Accounts receivable as of 01/01/02 were 600 thousand soms or almost a year?s billings. As a result, accounts payable were around 280 thousand soms.

MAIN CHALLENGES:

• Treatment and disposal facilities were constructed in 1960?s with a lot of imperfections and defects, and have became out-of-date in all aspects. The technology used for treatment is not suitable for cold weather conditions
• It is necessary to renovate or build up new treatment and disposal facilities as well as to renovate or create a new sewerage system
• Absence of disinfectants
• Poor collection of fees for rendered services

4.8. SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT:
The municipal enterprise ?Tazalyk? is responsible for city waste removal. The Oblast Department on
Communal Economy provides monitoring over this process in Naryn City.
COLLECTED WASTES FOR DISPOSAL: Every resident produces 1.4 m3 of wastes per year, which makes 58,520 m3 of wastes for the population of 41,800 people. About 30, 500 m3 of wastes, or only 52% of total wastes generated, are collected annually and disposed of properly.
SYSTEM OF COLLECTION: There are 50 locations used for collection of wastes. The solid municipal wastes are collected manually and irregularly as soon as points for collection of wastes become overfilled (these places are fenced from 3 sides) and depending on availability of special trucks. The wastes are removed to the landfill, which is at a distance of 10 kilometers from the city, and are buried by using a bulldozer. There is no fence or supervision on the territory of the landfill which has a total area of 4 hectares. The wastes are 1.5-4.5 meters thick and are permanently burning. Agents of the utility service clean streets manually.
FINANCIAL CONDITION:
The level of cost recovery from fees for collection of solid wastes is only about 60%.
MAIN CHALLENGES:

• Unregulated financial relations between the city and ?Tazalyk? enterprise.
• Lack of financing for sanitary treatment of the city and for salaries of utility?s employees
• Insufficient quantity of special trucks
• Absence of market for recycled wastes
• Lack of clear functional zoning for construction and organization of sanitary-protection zones
• Uncontrollable places of retail trading
• Engineering equipment that is deteriorated beyond its economically useful life
• Low capacity of city residents to pay for services
• Existing practice of wastes collection without involvement of residents in the process
• Contamination of underground waters from landfill.

4.9. CENTRAL HEATING
The Naryn Heating and Energy Enterprise, a state founded enterprise, provides heating services in the central urbanized area on the basis of an Agreement signed with the city giving rights of economic management of heating assets in communal property to the enterprise.
USERS OF CENTRAL HEATING SYSTEM: Of the total customers of the central heating system, of 78% are residential users (including 53% using electric heating stations and 25% using heating stations which run on solid fuel), 20% are organizations and enterprises financed from the budget and 2% are other organizations.
OTHER RESOURCES: The residents and organizations willingly use subsidized electricity for heating and use relatively expensive firewood and coal to a lesser degree.
DESCRIPTION OF INFRASTRUCTURE: There are 13 heating stations in the city; including 9 electric heating stations with total capacity of 13.6 Gcalories /hour and 4 heating stations which run on solid fuel with total capacity of 20.8 Gcalories /hour.
FINANCIAL CONDITION: Due to unrealistically low tariffs and poor collections, the level of cost recovery of the heating enterprise is only about 40% of costs. Accounts receivable were 12 million soms as of 01/01/02 and accounts payable were around 9 million soms.

MAIN CHALLENGES:

• Critical deterioration of heating equipment
• Critical deterioration of technical resources such as underground pipelines and stop valves etc. used for all central heating system
• The fixed tariffs do not cover even operational costs.

 

4.10. ROADS AND DRAINAGE SYSTEM:
The total length of roads in the city is 110 km consisting of 42.1 km of asphalt-concrete roads 55 kms of gravel roads and 13 kms of dirt roads. All roads have local importance and are under the responsibility of the city for maintenance, except for the section of Razzakova Street with the length of 1.5 km., which is part of the Bishek-Naryn-Torugart route which is the responsibility of the republican government.
STATUS OF ROADS AND DRAINAGE SYSTEM: About 10 km of asphalt-concrete roads require capital repairing. About 30 km of gravel roads require asphalting. The paths and pavements which require capital repairing are 10 km long. The drainage systems are mostly clogged and capital repairs are needed to repair 4.5 km.
MAIN CHALLENGES:

• Capital repairs of city asphalt-concrete roads have not been done for the 10 last years. The surface of city roads in some parts have deteriorated 80%. That is why it is necessary to renovate the surface of roads on the area of 40 thousand m2.
• it is necessary build curbs along Lenin Street in the length of 8.5 thousand meters.

 

4.11. POWER SUPPLY:
The rayon enterprise supplying the electrical networks in the city is a branch company of Joint Stock Company ?Vostokenergo?, owned and managed primarily by the State Property Fund
The power supply for the city is supplied from the national power networks. As in most other regions of the Republic, the city is currently suffering from the regime of limitations of electricity supply , which causes serious damage to the local economy.

4.12.TRANSPORT:
The Oblast Transport Licensing Department issues licenses for transport services. The City Department for Transport management executes monitoring of routes and traffic schedules in the city.
ENTERPRISES INVOLVED IN CONVEYANCE OF PASSENGERS AND FREIGHT TRAFFIC:

• Trolleybus service on Lenin Street City
• ?Ak-Jol?Limited Company City / regional carriage
• ?Naryn Jurgunchu?

State-owned auto company City / Rayon / International carriage

• ?Naryn auto? Limited Company regional carriage
• JSC ?Ak-Kula? regional carriage
• JSC ??la-Too? regional carriage
• JSC ?Tulpar? regional carriage

INFRASTRUCTURE / FACILITEIS

• Naryn bus station
• Airport of Class V is located in Kenesh village for reception of middle-size airplanes with the capacity up to 32 seats is closed at the present time.

MAIN CHALLENGES:

• Low paying capacity of city residents
• Airport has not operated for about 10 years
• There is a mutual agreement of the Kyrgyz Republic, Uzbekistan and China for construction of a rail way connecting these countries, which will pass through the south of Naryn Oblast.

4.13. COMMUNICATION:
JSC Kyrgyztelekom provides communication services through their branch company in Naryn city. The city is not responsible for provision of communication services.

CAPACITY OF TELEPHONE NETWORKS: There are 6,600 telephone numbers in the city (5,600 analog numbers and 1,000 digital numbers). There are 161 numbers per 1000 people. There is a rural telephone station with 50 numbers in Dostuk town. There is a commutative access to Internet in the city.

MAIN CHALLENGES:

• Unstable connection due to interruptions in the electricity supply
• Low paying capacity of city residents

 

4.14. CULTURE AND SPORTS
DIVISION OF FUNCTIONS:
Institutions of culture

Republican	Oblast	City
- Youth Center ?Son-Kol? at the National State University with 600 places - Oblast musical drama Theater in honor of M. Ryskulov with 540 seats	- Oblast Historical and ethnographical Museum	- Musical school for 210 students - City House of Culture in honor of Baetov for 200 seats - Youth Club ?Alma-Bak? for 60 children - City gallery of arts

Institutions of sports and sports facilities

Republican	Oblast	City
- Sports school of Olympic reserves for children and youth - Sports and health complex ?Namys? at the National State University	- Oblast school of sports for children and youth	- City committee on sports and tourism development - City stadium with 3,000 seats - 6 gyms in secondary schools - Sports school for children

4.15. LAND USE PLANNING / PERMISSIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT:
The main Architecture and Construction Department of the oblast executes general monitoring.
The Naryn Oblast State Architecture Control Office of the State Architecture and Construction Commission of the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic provides permissions for design, construction and changing the uses of properties in the city.

EXISTING PLANS - a general long-term spatial development plan for Naryn city was elaborated by the planning institute ?Kirgizgipromstroi? in 1997 but the city does not have funds to buy the plan.
TIME AND COSTS REQUIRED FOR OBTAINING OF PERMISSIONS. The following deadlines permissions were determined in compliance with the Resolution of the Government of Kyrgyz republic ?57 of 3.02.00:

• Capital construction ? 53 days
• Construction of individual residential houses ? 29 days
• Changing of profile ? 27 days
• Capital construction based on individual design ? 63 days.

EXPECTED ALLOCATION OF LAND PLOTS BY MEANS OF TENDER.

1. Trading-business complex (number of floors - 2-3 ) on the cross-road of At-Bashinski and Lenina streets
2. Office of business complex on Lenina street (number of floors - 2-3), bus station ?Son-Kol?
3. Trade and service complex (number of floors - 2-3) on the cross-road of Ganyl-Myrza and Lenina streets
4. Office of trade and service complex (number of floors - 2-3.) on Lenina street
5. Hotel complex (three star) on Lenina street, southern part of ?Ala-Too? hotel
6. Hotel and business center on Sharaliev street with a park (number of floors - 2-3.)
7. Site for production of inert materials on the basis of municipal property on the flood-lands of Naryn river, Zapin plot, total area of 2 hectares
8. Pastures for the cattle of city residents according to the general plan of Naryn city
9. Design and construction of new city landfill and enterprise for wastes treatment on the industrial basis on Ak-Kya site
10. Design and construction of new facility for cleaning of sewerage liquids according to the general plan, on Ak-Kya site

MAIN CHALLENGES:
It is necessary to legalize relations with neighboring Aiyl Okmotu regarding pasture plots for city residents, quarry of construction materials, protection of water resources and place of future landfill.

 

4.16. ENVIRONMENT:
The Oblast Department for Preservation of the Environment and Ecology is in charge of all issues regarding environmental protection and ecology in the oblast and the city.

GENERAL ASSESSMENT OF PRESENT ENVIRONMENT STATUS. The air, soil, surface and underground waters correspond to existing norms. The gamma range is rather high if compared with the average in the country, but is still within the norms. The levels of electromagnetic radiation and noises correspond to the norms.
MAIN RISKS\ DIFFICULTIES:
The cutting down of trees on a large scale due to the lack and high costs of solid fuel and electricity.

 

5. MAIN INDICATORS OF CITY BUDGET:
The city budget increased 53% during 2002 in comparison with 2001. In general, it is accounted for by an increase in amounts of categorical and equalization grants in order to cover total costs for wages and deductions to the Social fund for all education and health care workers, while only 70-80% of costs for these items were compensated from grants during previous years.

Own revenues of the city are limited. 90% of the necessary funds will be provided by grants from the Republican budget during 2002. The costs for education and heath care are considered as compulsory costs and comprise 81.1% of the total expenditures. This means that the city has very limited resources for financing all other costs.

The expenditures per city resident are 999 soms in the budget of Naryn city during 2002.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Revenues and expenditures of the budget during 2002

	Revenues	Plan (thousand soms)	%		Functions	Plan (thousand soms)	%
	Tax revenues:				Public services	3,660.8	8.9
	Shared taxes				Education	27,871.0	68.0
	Income tax	1,412.0	3.5		Heath care	5,354.6	13.1
	Profit tax	0	0.0		Social protection	1,400.0	3.4
	Excise taxes	446.3	1.0		Housing and utilities	2,207.0	5.4
	Local taxes				Culture	436.8	1.1
	Confiscation and fines	32.2	0.1		Funds received from privatization	0	0.0
	Retail tax	708.5	1.7		Total expenditures by economic functions	40,960.2	100.0
	Property tax	3.5	0.0
	Tax on separate types of services	30.8	0.1		Expenditures
	Vehicle tax	346.4	0.9		Wages	17,235.6	42.1
	Land tax from individuals	30.1	0.1		Social fund contributions	4,998.3	12.2
	Land tax from legal entities	24.2	0.1		Travel allowances (in-country)	616.0	1.5
	Total	3,054.0	7.5		Travel allowances (out of country)	0	0.0
	Non Tax revenues:				Equipment and materials	1,278.0	3.1
	State duties	212.2	0.5		Medical supplies	283.3	0.6
	Other non tax revenues	44.5	0.1		Food	1,857.2	4.1
	Total	256.7	0.6		Utilities	8,213.8	20.1
	Special funds	814.8	2.0		Rent and maintenance of vehicles	1,077.2	2.6
	Total tax and non tax revenues	4,125.5	10.1		Other acquisition and services	3,035.7	7.4
	Grants: Categorical grants	21,061.2	51.4		Subsidies	1,430.0	3.5
	Equalization grants	15,773.5	38.5		Capital repairs	1,165.1	2.8
	Total revenues	40,960.2	100.0		Total expenditures	40,960.2	100.0

6. Assets in city ownership:
The following facilities are on the balance sheet of the Department of Communal Property Management:

Facilities	Residual Value (thousand soms)
Parks and public gardens	33,044.4
Facilities of education sector (schools, kindergartens)	30,939.8
Health care facilities	3,706.6
Administrative buildings	13,443.9
Communal and public utilities	25,516.1
Streets, pavements, canals, drainage systems, bridges and passages	77,617.4
Unfinished construction of residential blocks of flats	1 ,127.0
Total	185,395.2

 

 

 

 

 

7. NON-GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS / ORGANIZATIONS ESTABLISHED BY COMMUNITIES

The city is divided into 6 cholkoms - territorial boards of communities (TBC):

• Chygysh
• In the name of Maten Sadykov
• Sharkyratma
• Borbor
• Kotormo
• Batysh

43 NGOs are registered in the city (of January 2002 ) involved in activities under the general assistance and coordination from the ?Counterpart? Center. The main sectors of activities are as follows - children and youth (9 NGO), women (7 NGO), human rights (5 NGO), health care (4 NGO), charity (4 NGO), education and science (4 NGO), civil rights (2 NGO), ecology (2 NGO), disabled people (2 NGO), creation of working places (1 NGO), family and retired people (1 NGO), support to NGO (1 NGO), miscellaneous (1 NGO).

 

8. INFORMATION ON SUBURBS SERVED BY THE CITY
The town of Dostuk with a population of 860 people is located within the city jurisdiction. There is a town council of 12 people, a secondary school with 200 places, specialized school with 60 places, specialized vocational school and a first aid station with 4 employees. At-Bashi, there is an electrical power station with the capacity of 40 mWatts.




Development strategy



Purpose of the City Strategy and Action Plan:

The purpose of the City Development Strategy and Action Plan is to develop a comprehensive framework for guiding the future development of the City of Naryn until 2010. It must cover all aspects of importance to the city and it residents, not just those aspects under the management of the city administration. Therefore, the CDSAP must actively involve the entire community including the city administration, the city kenesh, other levels of government, NGOs, CBOs, the business community and interested individuals in the identification of problems and priorities and in mobilizing resources to overcome them and realize the full potential of the City of Naryn. The aim is to get all organizations and individuals working together to the greater benefit of the community with a shared vision and a shared strategy of how to achieve that vision.

The CDSAP must be consistent with the Comprehensive Development Framework, the National Poverty Reduction Strategy, the National Strategy for Decentralization and Further Development to 2010 and the development plans of higher levels of government in order to secure their political and financial support.

The City Development Strategy must be linked to a practical Action Plan in order to be implementable. Therefore, the CDSAP contains a framework of prioritized action areas that must be addressed between now and 2010. This will provide a general framework for the development of the annual budgets and work plans of the city administration as well as establishing the framework of cooperation and partnership between the city government and CBOs, NGOs, the business community and other sectors of the community.

 

The Process:

Mobilizing the active participation of the community in such a planning process is hard work and requires the commitment of all involved. First, we created a Steering Committee of 10 very active and dedicated people representing the city administration, city kenesh, city service sectoral heads, NGOs and the business community. This Steering Committee represents the ?brain trust? which is actively involved in all activities of CDSAP preparation. The Steering Committee is supported by a small secretariat from the city administration with support and advice from our partner, Urban Institute. Prior to starting the strategic planning phase, the secretariat prepared a comprehensive City Profile to document the existing conditions in the city as a factual basis for planning.

The Steering Committee, through several ?brain storming? sessions, prepared an initial draft of a City Vision and Mission and the rough outlines of a Strategy to accomplish that vision. They then conducted extensive meetings with various groups of stakeholders from the city: representatives of the business community, NGO, CBO, city service sectoral heads, etc. Subsequent drafts were prepared which then incorporated the suggestions and comments of the numerous organizations and interested individuals who generously gave their time and effort. The Steering Committee then invited an Experts Panel from central government ministries, the Naryn State University and the Association of Mayors as well as participants from the oblast and rayon administrations and keneshes to provide input and insights from their own experience to further enrich the draft CDASP.

The draft CDSAP was then presented to the Kuraltai on 24 Janaury 2003 where it was discussed and adopted in principle. Recommendations made during the Kuraltai and suggestions submitted subsequently by Kuraltai members were incorporated in this Final CDSAP. The Final CDSAP was then approved by the City Kenesh.

 

The Vision:

The following Vision of the City of Naryn represents a practical and achievable target for our city for the year 2010 which reflects the priorities of all sectors of the community.

 

Naryn - an international center of tourism, transport and education located on the Silk Road with developed and sustainable services and infrastructure.

 

The Mission:

In achieving this Vision, the Mission of the the Local Self Government must be clearly defined not only in terms of delivering services to the residents but in actively supporting local economic development and involving the community in meaningful partnership with the city government to achieve our Vision

 

Create favorable conditions for sustainable social and economic development by means of involving all sectors of the society.

 


The Strategy and Action Plan:

The strategy, as elaborated in the following pages, is structured around six major themes

1. Organizational Issues of Local Self Government and the Local Community
2. City Infrastructure
3. Financial and Economic Policy
4. Tourism and Sport
5. Social Policy; and
6. City Improvements and Environment

 

For each of these major themes, the Strategy contains several strategic sub-objectives, each of which is linked in the Action Plan to a list of practical actions that must be undertaken for their achievement. This includes actions of the city administration as well as those of all other stakeholders working individually and in partnership with the city.

Also attached is the Investment Project Inventory and Prioritization which is as an integral part of the CDSAP.

 

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