Covid-19

The pandemic has affected our joint projects with partners in Central Asia and Russia. Some of the key activities within our joint projects are transnational in nature – i.e. exchange programs and residencies – and these have been affected the most. We had to cancel entire cycles of exchanges and residencies in 2020 and plan them for the year of 2021. Our partners were affected by local lockdowns and had to switch activities to an online format. In some cases CAG, together with partner organizations decided to stop long-term activities such as volunteering activities in Kyrgyzstan. In other cases due to an abrupt shutdown of borders, we decided to prolong the duration of activities for several months to assure the security of the involved participants. In Sweden, CAG continued to operate as regular, with introduced measures that were based on national and local regulations and recommendations. Given the multiplicity of our activities in Sweden and beyond, CAG had to carefully adapt to advice from our donors that implied introduction of changes to activities not only in Sweden, but in Central Asia and Russia as well. These were quickly integrated to assure the safety of all stakeholders.