Support to GI Development in Central Asia – Promotion of Newly Identified GI
2025
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Since April 2025, Hilfswerk International has been implementing the project GI DEV (Support to GI Development in Central Asia – Promotion of Newly Identified GI) in close cooperation with WIPO, the World Intellectual Property Organization, assisting the project in financial and technical means.
Local experts are actively participating in the project, including representatives of the Kazakhstan Association of Sugar, Food and Processing Industry, as well as the Association of Fruit and Vegetable Enterprises of Kyrgyzstan.
WIPO is the United Nations agency that serves the world’s innovators and creators, ensuring that their ideas reach the market safely and improve lives around the globe. WIPO provides services that enable creators, innovators and entrepreneurs to protect and promote their intellectual property (IP) with patents, trademarks, designs, geographical indications (GI) and copyrights across borders and acting as a forum for addressing cutting-edge IP issues. WIPO’s IP data and information guide decision makers; its impact-driven projects and technical assistance ensure IP benefits to everyone and everywhere.
This project is part of a broader project of Hilfswerk International in Central Asia aimed at promoting social and economic development in the region.
Target region:
> Kyrgyzstan, Naryn Region, At-Bashi District
> Kazakhstan, Almaty Region
> Tajikistan, Sughd Region, Asht District
Target group:
– Association of producers of At-Bashi White Honey
– Association of producers of Almaty Aport Apples
– Association of producers of Ashtak Dried Apricots
