Uzbekistan’s Transformation: Strategies and Perspectives

participation.
100
The movement, whose activity pro-
file is as broad as the DSC’s, works to network state 
and non-state actors and institutions. It is apparently 
also intending to establish itself as an umbrella or-
ganisation for the NGO sector, because smaller NGO 
operating outside the state structures still experience 
difficulties in Uzbekistan.
101
But with its official man-
date and offices in all regions Yuksalish is well posi-
tioned to absorb the grassroots sector and – in the 
context of the state reform policies – to become a 
kind of super-GoNGO. 
98 Discussion with DSC Director, February 2020, Berlin. 
99 Postanovlenie Kabineta Ministrov Respubliki Uzbekistan, O 
merach po organizacii dejatel’nosti negosudarstvennoy nekommerch-
eskoy organizacii – Obshchenacional’noe dvizhenie “Yuksalish” i ego 
territorial’nych podrazdeleniy [Resolution of the Cabinet of Min-
isters of the Republic of Uzbekistan, on measures to organise 
the activities of the non-state, non-profit movement “Yuk-
salish” and its territorial subdivisions], 13 February 2019, 
no. 124, https://lex.uz/ru/docs/4200154 (accessed 11 July 2020). 
100 See https://yumh.uz (accessed 11 July 2020). 
101 A draft law of January 2020 has to date done nothing 
to change this. “NGO Bill Criticised as ‘Bureaucratic Red 
Tape’”, BBC Monitoring Central Asia, 23 January 2020. 

---

Public Mobilisation 
SWP Berlin 
Uzbekistan’s Transformation 
September 2020 
21 
As can be seen, the idea of participation becomes 
an instrument of social engineering in this context, a 
tool of social “reeducation” in support of the reform 
policies. The imperative character of the offer of