It was a pleasure working with you and build knowledge and capacities of the CIS region on the value of data and making the most from this data.

You are a remarkable person and professional, and I hope that we will have the opportunity of working again together.

All the best,

Eduard.

It was a pleasure meeting you over the past couple of months in Almaty. I wish you all success in your personal and professional journeys, and do hope we can work together again.

Best wishes,

/Sérgio

It has been an honour to work with you! You will be missed and I wish you all the best moving forward. Thank you for the good memories that we shared together!

Farewell, and may success follow you everywhere!

With warm wishes,

Ainur

I am sorry to see you leaving, but I am very confident you will return soon and we will be able to continue our great cooperation. We are just starting our full DemRes journey and cannot go without all of you. See you soon!!!! Zeljko

My very best to all of you.

Giulia

I feel fortunate to have worked with someone as professional and kind-hearted as you. Your guidance has taught me a lot and helped me grow as a professional.

I am confident that our paths will cross again, whether in a corporate setting or otherwise.

Wishing you all the best in your future plans and endeavors!

Sincerely,

Chyngyz

Thank you for being a part of my Almaty journey! You are a true professional, and I am confident that a great path awaits you. I am always happy to witness your successes.

Please know that you have a reliable brother ready to lend a hand and support you anytime.

All the best to you, my friend!

Sincerely,

Chyngyz

Though our time was brief, it was a pleasure to meet you and discuss communications plans for our project.

I am confident that CISPop is just the beginning of your international career, and I look forward to seeing or hearing about your success as a top-notch communications professional in the global market.

Wishing you all the best in your journey!

Sincerely,

Chyngyz

Sincerely yours,

Yuliya

I am sorry to see you go. It's been a pleasure getting to know you over the past few years and I truly hope our paths cross again soon. Best of luck in whatever is next on your journey,

Fiona

Andres

Liudmila

A special thank you for your dedication to UNFPA and to our successful CISPop programme.

We wish you all the best in this new phase and look forward to staying in contact and possibly interact again in the future.

Very warm regards.

Florence

It has been a great pleasure meeting and working with you. Your dedication and support throughout the CIS project have significantly strengthened the capacity of Uzbekistan’s ministries, agencies, and demographers.

A special thank you to Khuvaydo for his outstanding leadership, excellent communication with all UNFPA Country Offices and remarkable personality.

I wish each of you great success in your new endeavors and look forward to the possibility of working together again in the future.

With best wishes,

Azam

Thank you for your great personality and dedication to the project.

I wish you further career development, success and prosperity!

Looking forward to working together in the future on the same interesting projects!

With very warm regards

Gaziza

It has been a privilege to work with you. Your dedication, support, and willingness to go the extra mile for others have made a significant impact on our work. Your contribution to the CIS project and to our CISPop family have been invaluable. Your hard work, compassion, and excellence will continue to inspire us as you were not only a colleague but a friend.

I believe, wherever you go your personality and professionalism will inspire others. I wish you success and happiness. You will be greatly missed.

With best wishes,

Asel

Kyrgyzstan

I would like to thank for your outstanding cooperation and support. Working with you on the CISPOP project has been an incredible experience. It has been a pleasure to collaborate with you, and I have learned a great deal from your expertise and approach. Your constant support have made a lasting impact on our work in CISPOP projects, and you will be greatly missed.

Wishing you all the best and I hope our paths cross again soon!

Best wishes,

Baktybek

Saying goodbuy isn't easy, but it's a necessary part of the journey :) It was a pleasure to know you and work with you. Your dedication, ability to maintain composure and optimism in any situation has been truly noteworthy. Wishing you all the best in your future endeavors!

Best wishes,

Narmina

To Aichurek and Amangeldy: thank you for your tireless and competent support. I regret I have no photos of you, I would have added them here. You made a great team! (and you too, Botagoz, but since you are not separating I mention you only in brackets)

Eduard J.

I wish you all the best in your new endeavors.

Sincerely,

Anna Tskitishvili,

UNFPA Georgia CO

I wanted to take a moment to express my sincere appreciation for your hard work and dedication to CISPop project! Your passion for bringining it to a successful end was truly inspiring!!! Your positive attitude is truly infectious! It's refreshing to work with someone who's so open to hearing every suggestion and willing to consider different perspectives.

Your collaborative spirit made working on this project a truly rewarding experience.

While I'm sad to see teh project come to an end, I am excited for you excited for you to embark on new challenges. I have no doubt you'll achieve great things. Please keep in touch! It is a small world :)

warmly

Marta

We extend our heartfelt gratitude for your great work and positive attitude through the past years.

It has been a true pleasure working with you. Your professionalism, dedication, and competence have been truly inspiring, and your contributions made the project a great success. We’re confident this is not a farewell, but rather a "see you soon." Our best wishes to you and should you find yourself in Yerevan, please let us know!

Tsovinar, Mher, Anna, Tatevik and team

UNFPA Armenia CO

It's been a priviledge working with you, going through challenging studies :) and being proud of the results. Thank you so much for bridging countries in sharing experiences and practices, exchanging knowledge and making partners proud of working with UNFPA. You are a great friend and supporter to colleagues, I was impressed by your support to the team during your studies at CUNI.

Waiting for further working with you when CIS Pop is back soon!

Take care.

Olga

Being one of my closest colleagues and friends here at UNFPA, it is incredibly sad to realize that your are leaving. It has been a great pleasure to work in one team with you, to learn from you and experience all the ups and downs along the way together.

I have been very inspired by your hard work, dedication, persistence, patience, kindness, and positive attituide throughout the last 3,5 years at UNFPA. The success of the CISPop project is mostly attributed to you, the driving engine, your strong management skills, ability to build strong relationships with country offices and our IPs, and your countless efforts and hours dedicated to the project! Not only have you been a great colleague, a supervisor, but an amazing friend, open, emphathic and wise, with an uplifting spirit, who could always give precious advice and share numerous jokes to make our days in the office more fun :) such people like you are so rare and I'm very lucky I got to meet you!

I hope to see you back at CISPop 2, but also wish you more intesting projects and adventures (perhaps in the world of demography? 😉) in the near future. I sincerely hope your next professional occupation will bring you joy and excitement, and I am sure you will do great!

Please keep in touch and know that you are always welcome back to Almaty or Astana :)

With very best wishes,

Botagoz

I got so used to be working with you on a daily basis, so it's hard to realize that you are leaving. The past 1,5 years of working with you have been so pleasant and enriching! Even though being new to UNFPA and UN system, I have been so impressed by your independent work, ability to learn quickly, and calmness, which is so needed sometimes! You are one of the most reliable colleagues and people I have ever met and it has been a great luck to have you with us, especially during the difficult transition times! Your contribution has been integral to the success of CISPop and overall operarations of the Almaty Office.

I hope to see you back at CISPop 2, but also wish you more interesting projects and professional growth in the near future!

A special thank you for being our hiking guide around Almaty and for dedicating your time to showing us around! I hope we will continue to stay in touch!

With very best wishes,

Botagoz

Although our time at UNFPA was relatively short, I am very glad for this work experience and for having you as part of CISPop and UNFPA Almaty!

Thank you for being a great team member, for your comms creativity, and positive spirit! You have undoubtedly left a significant impact on the project and its successful conclusion! It is saddenning to see you leave, and I hope to see you back at CISPop 2!

Apart from work and daily routine, I will always cherish our long conversations, foodie-shopping-theatre outings, hiking trips together with Aman, and, of course, cold days in Moscow which were warmed up by our long walks and laughter!

I hope that your next work experience will be fulfilling, rewarding, and joyous!

Please keep in touch and do stop by Almaty/Astana!

With best wishes and hugs,

Botagoz

I have only known you for a short period but want to recognize you for all the achievements you have made under unusually challenging circumstances. Thank you for your dedication and commitment - I wish you all the best in the next phase of your professional and personal lives.

Warm regards Klaus

As we have reached the end of the CISPop project, we want to take a moment to express our heartfelt gratitude for your outstanding contributions over past years since the project launched.

Your unwavering commitment and expertise have been instrumental in navigating such a complex project, which from one side dedicated enhancing population data collection, analysis, and utilization has been crucial in supporting evidence-based policy-making across the CIS region and strengthening its national capacities; and from the other side fostered regional collaboration and linking partners in the region to work on global SDG dialogues. Your efforts have been instrumental in achieving the project goals.

It has been an honor to work and collaborate alongside such professional and committed colleagues on common projects. Your hard work and expertise have left a lasting impact and a long trail of warm memories, and we hope to have the opportunity to collaborate again in the future.

Thank you for your invaluable contributions. Wishing you all the best in your future endeavors.

Warm regards,

Albertov team (Czechia)

Unfortunately I coudn't post my warm wards for all our colleagues of the CISPop and particularly for Khuvaido, Aichurek an Amangeldy.  The link which you put in your message is not worked on my computer. Please,  convey my deep gratitude to all project participants. As for me our joint work was very useful and productive. The contribution of your management team, Eduard, which includes Khuvaido, Aichurek , Amangeldy and other , to the success of the project was desive. Honestly I hope that the project will continue. But in any case we must continue to cooperate, only together we can move forward in science and practice.

My best wishes to everybody 

With hope for future meetings,

Mikhail Denisenko

P/S I will be not able to join to meeting tomorrow because I am in kayak travel in the North. Connection is week for zoom or googlemeet

On behalf of the project  IDI team, I would like to express gratitude for the cooperation and successful completion of the first phase of the project.

Much of the project took place during the unusual and difficult times associated with Covid-19. This was a challenge for all of us and especially for you, and you successfully coped with it. We would like to acknowledge your efforts in coordinating a distance course on Demographic Resilience  for more than 100 participants from the CIS countries. You also supported the promotion and sustainability of the course at the national levels.

We are talking about the completion of the first phase of the project with the hope that the second phase will come as it is in demand, especially at the national levels.

Personally, I was very pleased to work with you.

In this regard, we look forward to further joint work.

We wish you all the best and see you soon!

Lidia and IDI Team.