Ministry Internship

Interned at the Ministry of Preschool and School Education at the International Relations Department, where I deepened my understanding of IR and developed my organizational skills. My job was to write drafts of letters to ministries such as the Ministry of International Affairs, to the Presidential Administration, to the embassies, and to the international organizations. The senior officers and the relevant units decided the ministry’s position, and I made them with the right format and addressee block, the reference to the incoming document, and the legal citations and terminology, in Uzbek, Russian, or English, formatted for signature at the First Deputy Minister’s or Minister’s level. Every letter was reviewed first before being signed. I learned how to write the letters in a ministry’s style myself with very little help because I learned the style myself after getting access to the ministry’s archive files and learning the pattern and their style of writing letters. When my supervisor gave me a task to prepare a letter, I did it exactly as others at the ministry were doing, and my supervisor got excited and asked how I did it. Then I explained how I learned that. And then my supervisor started trusting me with more tasks and data. I also took on a crucial role in organizing meetings of the ministry with others such as the ambassador of France, etc.

• Official lettersDrafted letters in Uzbek, Russian, and English to ministries, embassies, and international organizations, formatted for Minister-level signature.
• High-level meetingsHelped organize ministry meetings, including one with the Ambassador of France.
• Eco-Schools dataCleaned messy Eco-Schools data in a single afternoon using digital tools and AI.
• Climate eventsSupported two eco camps during the internship, then helped organize RCOY Central Asia in September at the organizers’ request.

Outside of my duties during the internship, I helped the ministry with the organization of climate-related work such as Eco-Schools, because I was involved with them before, and at the same time, my interest in climate is from my heart, as I come from a family of farmers. When the data of the Eco-Schools were messy and not accurate, with many errors, I decided to fix that. In a single afternoon, I managed to fix that by using some digital tools such as AI, whereas they couldn’t do it in 6 months. We organized two eco-related camps and one sub-regional conference of youth (Regional Conference of Youth) during my internship at the ministry.