About This Initiative
The Turkmenistan Project promotes civil society in Turkmenistan via grantmaking and programmatic activities in areas such as arts and culture, access to information, and public health.  more

Turkmenistan Project Grants
The Open Society Institute supports civil society development in Turkmenistan in part through a small grants program administered by the Central Eurasia Project's Turkmenistan Project.  more

Donors
Resource links to governmental and private funders (other than OSI) that support the development of open society in Turkmenistan.  more

Turkmenistan News Brief
December 12-19, 2008
Turkmenistan’s first elections to its newly reformed parliament were heavily propagandized at home as a triumph of the democratization ushered in by President Berdymukhamedov’s “Era of Great Renewal.” more

Turkmenistan News Brief
December 6-11, 2008
Afghan militants’ bombing of more than 100 NATO trucks in Peshawar, Pakistan, on December 9 resonated in Turkmenistan, as NATO officials stepped up their negotiations with Ashgabat and other Central Asian capitals to obtain alternative supply routes for the Afghanistan war effort. more