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The Tech Age Girls (TAG) project addresses the lack of skilled women in the field of information technology (IT) by encouraging and training the most promising young female leaders. Participants have the opportunity to advance their technical skills, learn from successful female leaders, and develop their own service projects, giving them a chance to excel in the world economy and improve their communities. IREX launched the Tech Age Girls project in Uzbekistan in 2005 and has since administered it in five more Eurasian countries.

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Tech Age Girls Fact Sheet

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Why Invest in Youth?

Investing in the next generation & building the skills of tomorrow’s leaders: Programs that target youth and build their leadership skills give them the capacity and self-confidence to positively change their communities.

Channeling youth’s energy towards positive social change: Young people’s energy, creativity, and enthusiasm represent a foundation for community development, increased volunteerism, and economic growth in their communities.

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IREX in Lebanon: Working with Youth to Enrich Communities (3MB pdf)

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IREX, Save the Children, and the World Bank have partnered to oversee the development of the BOTA Foundation, an unprecedented development venture that is overseeing the repatriation of $84 million through programs targeting the poorest children in Kazakhstan.

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BOTA Foundation Factsheet

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CSML provides training and resources to Liberian civil society and media organizations to increase citizen participation in and ownership of government policy.

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CSML factsheet

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IREX Chair, Kurt Wimmer, testifies before Senate Foreign Relations Committee on International Media Development and Public Diplomacy Issues

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Verbal Testimony of Kurt Wimmer on Behalf of the Media Institute (95KB.pdf)

IREX Chair, Kurt Wimmer, testifies before Senate Foreign Relations Committee on International Media Development and Public Diplomacy Issues

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Written Testimony of Kurt Wimmer on Behalf of the Media Institute (42.KB.pdf)

About the MSI

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As part of the Kosovo Media Assistance Program (KMAP) – a three-year program sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) – IREX and its subcontractor EnCompass LLC conducted a study of women and ethnicity in the media in Kosovo. An important component of KMAP is improving reporting on gender and ethnic/interethnic issues by encouraging increased coverage of these issues, developing awareness among journalists of their importance, and building skills for reporting on them in a productive and positive manner.

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Kosovo Media Assistance Program Survey on Women and Ethnicity in the Media (601KB.pdf)

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In its broadest scope, my research is concerned with the impact of the former Soviet Muslim republics’ changing education systems on the development of their countries’ citizens.

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Teaching Citizenship in a Post-Soviet World: Azerbaijan’s Changing Schools (81KB.pdf)

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Why are courts so fickle when it comes to human rights? Why are women’s rights supported in some countries and not in others, and why are press freedoms taken into account while members of religious minorities don’t stand a chance in courts?

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Courts and Culture: The Effects of Norms on the Development of Human Rights in the Post-Soviet World (39KB.pdf)

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