OSCE helps chief accountants of Kyrgyzstan’s penitentiary institutions develop professional skills
A five-day training seminar for chief accountants of Kyrgyzstan’s detention facilities, organized by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek and the State Penitentiary Service, ended in Bishkek on 24 May 2013.
This course for penitentiary system officers is the seventh in a series of training events. A total of 32 chief accountants from prisons, colonies and settlement colonies learned about new computer technologies in bookkeeping in state budgetary institutions.
The event, which is part of a wider OSCE project that aims at increasing the institutional capacity of the country’s State Penitentiary System (GSIN), was moderated by an expert consultant and GSIN’s chief of accountability. The project’s main tasks include capacity building for prison personnel; improvement of living conditions of inmates; development of rehabilitation and social reintegration schemes for ex-inmates; improving the penitentiary system’s accountability and transparency; and introducing independent civil society monitoring practices.
The training was organized on the base of the GSIN’s Training Centre, which was established with support by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek in 2010.