Group Dimensions International

GDI Director, Janet Mancini Billson, Conducted a two-day focus group training workshop in Almaty, Kazakhstan, at the end of May 2008. The workshop, The Regional Competence Building for Think Tanks in the South Caucasus and Central Asia, was sponsored by NUPI (the Norwegian Institute of Foreign Affairs) and was held at the Kazakhstan Institute for Management, Economics and Strategic Research (KIMEP). Participants came from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan. This annual "think tank" builds capacity among regional researchers and academics.