The Inter-Institutional Research Center for Air Pollution Studies (IRCAPS), established at Osh State University in the Kyrgyz Republic as one of many outcomes of a world joint analysis mission led by Professor Nawa of the Department of Global Environmental Health, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Institute of Science Tokyo (Science Tokyo), has been chosen as a co-chair of the Development Partners Coordination Council (DPCC) Working Group on Air Quality (WG) in the Kyrgyz Republic for 2026. Together with the United Nations Environment Programme, IRCAPS held its first assembly as co-chair on April 17.
IRCAPS was established as a part of the mission “Development of a Satellite Data- and a Regional Chemical Transport Modeling-based Air Pollution Assessment System and Formation of a Research Center for Air Pollution Studies,” led by Nawa. The mission was chosen for the Science and Technology Research Partnership for Sustainable Development (SATREPS), a program by which the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) present analysis and improvement administration and monetary assist for worldwide joint analysis. IRCAPS serves as a analysis hub in the Kyrgyz Republic that promotes air air pollution analysis, human useful resource improvement, and coverage suggestions based mostly on scientific proof. Researchers from Japan and the Kyrgyz Republic are working collectively to constantly advance sensible analysis that hyperlinks regional well being points in the Kyrgyz Republic with environmental coverage.
The DPCC is a coordination physique in the Kyrgyz Republic that promotes cooperation amongst improvement companions, authorities businesses, and different stakeholders. Within the DPCC, the WG serves as a core framework supporting the nation’s clear air insurance policies, with participation from quite a few worldwide organizations and analysis establishments, together with the United Nations Environment Programme, the Asian Development Bank, the World Health Organization, and the World Bank.
In latest years, the WG additionally contributed to the preparation of the report Overview of Clean Air Actions in Kyrgyzstan 2018-2024 in June 2025. The report summarizes the outcomes of air high quality assessments and coverage dialogue in Bishkek, the capital of the Kyrgyz Republic, and contains the analysis achievements of the SATREPS mission led by Professor Nawa as one of many key initiatives.
During the 2026 time period, Aiperi Asanbek Kyzy, a second-year doctoral scholar in the Department of Global Environmental Health, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Science Tokyo, will function IRCAPS’ operational contact level, coordinating communications and conferences of the WG along with representatives of the United Nations Environment Programme. Asanbek Kyzy is an alumna of Osh State University and, as a specialist with experience in each environmental well being analysis and the social and coverage context of the Kyrgyz Republic, will play a key position in connecting the analysis outcomes of SATREPS mission to worldwide coverage dialogue.
As co-chair of the WG, IRCAPS will draw on the scientific proof and human networks developed by the SATREPS mission led by Nawa because the principal investigator on the Japanese facet. IRCAPS will work to make sure that analysis findings are shared and utilized in coverage discussions and worldwide coordination boards, thereby contributing to the advance of air high quality in the Kyrgyz Republic.
