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Tajikistan
NOTE: As of March 2, 2008, assistance for Tajikistan
has moved to the newly created Asia Bureau.
Tajikistan in Action
 U.S. Disaster Assistance to Tajikistan Tops $2 Million
The American people, through USAID, is providing more than $830,000 to the people of Tajikistan after extreme winter weather and an energy crisis have caused a humanitarian crisis in the country... Read More ...
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 Tajikistan’s First Local Governance Survey
In July and August 2007, the USAID Local Governance and Civic Participation project partnered with Tajik government officials to conduct the first broad-scale study of local government practices in Tajikistan... Read More ...
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 Water Program Boosts Harvests, Earns Official Praise
On September 13, 2007, the Minister of Land Reclamation and Water Resources of the Republic of Tajikistan met with members of seven USAID-supported water user associations... Read More ...
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 Tajik Leaders Consider Australian Example for Land Code Reforms
Recently, the USAID Tajikistan Land Reform and Market Development Project organized a study tour for a group of Tajik government officials and parliamentarians to Australia, where, like in Tajikistan, all land is owned by the state... Read More ...
Related Items: Tajikistan, Institutional Reform
 Tajik Human Trafficking Film Debuts at Minsk Festival
The film “Boz ki” was chosen for screening at the XIV Film Festival in Minsk, Belarus November 17–24, 2007. “Boz ki” was created with support from the USAID Trafficking in Persons Prevention Project... Read More ...
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 Tajik Dairy Farms Improve Productivity
The 500 dairy farmers who have received loans and technical assistance from the USAID AgFin+ project implemented by DAI have significantly increased their productivity and ability to compete with the milk processing companies of Central Asia... Read More ...
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 Campaigns Increase TB Awareness in Tajikistan
This summer, nearly 14,000 Tajikistanis received information about tuberculosis (TB) from a USAID TB control program implemented by Project HOPE. The innovative project organized six public awareness campaigns... Read More ...
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 TB Control Program Achieves 90 Percent Coverage in Tajikistan
This summer, the Government of Tajikistan opened the DOTS (Directly Observed Treatment Short-course) program in new communities, expanding its presence to 51 of 66 rayons (districts) of Tajikistan... Read More ...
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 USAID Helps to Design and Implement a TB/HIV Interaction Model
On July 5, the USAID-supported CAPACITY project and the Ministry of Health of Tajikistan presented the first results of pilot implementation of the TB/HIV interaction model in Dushanbe... Read More ...
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 Tajikistan Scales Up Education Financing Reforms
On June 29, the Government of Tajikistan signed a decree institutionalizing the education financing model developed and introduced with assistance from USAID and the World Bank... Read More ...
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 USAID-supported Drug Demand Prevention Curricula Adopted by
Tajikistan’s Police Schools
In April 2007, instructors from Tajikistan’s Police Academy and the Primary Police School of the Ministry of Internal Affairs participated in a “train-the-trainers” seminar on drug use prevention curricula in Dushanbe... Read More ...
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 Medical Professionals Trained on Safe Motherhood
Recently, USAID’s ZdravPlus project conducted a seminar on family-centered prenatal care and birth preparation for obstetricians-gynecologists, midwives, and family doctors from the primary health care facilities... Read More ...
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 Young Entrepreneurs Showcase Business Skills
On May 22, 2007, Junior Achievement together with the local Committee on Youth, Sport, and Tourism and the Sughd Regional Department of Education organized a “Young Entrepreneurs Fair 2007” in Khujand, Tajikistan... Read More ...
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 USAID Helps Tajik Women Regain Land
One hundred women from the Saodat Farm in northern Tajikistan recently regained possession of 19 hectares of irrigated land, thanks to USAID intervention. The land, which was restored to its owners in February 2007, had been illegally seized several years ago.... Read More ...
Related Items: Tajikistan, Rule of Law
 Family Medicine Trainers to Share Expertise across Tajikistan
In May 2007, eight medical professionals graduated from an 11-month “Train the Trainer” course offered through the Family Medicine Training Center at Tajikistan’s Post Graduate Medical Institute... Read More ...
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 Drug Demand Reduction Program Targets Tajik Labor Migrants
The USAID-funded Drug Demand Reduction Program (DDRP) and its implementing partner, the Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation, has produced a labor migrant guide for Tajikistan citizens migrating to Russia... Read More ...
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 U.S. Humanitarian Aid Reaches Villages after Natural Disaster
Mercy Corps is implementing a USAID-funded Direct Assistance Program (DAP) in the Rasht Valley, a highly mountainous area in the northern region of Tajikistan a very fragile environment that is prone to natural disasters... Read More ...
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 Campaigns Teach Public to Protect Environment
Over the past year, the USAID-funded Water User Association Support Program (WUASP) implemented by Winrock International organized 14 campaigns on “How to avoid pollution in canals” at local schools... Read More ...
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 Water Program Increases Farmer Profits by $1M
Tajik farmers participating in the USAID-funded Water User Association Support Project (WUASP) increased their profitability by an estimated $1 million from their 6,300 hectares of irrigated farm land in 2006... Read More ...
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 School is a Beacon of Hope in Remote Tajikistan
“Let’s not stay there too long: it’s the den of the mujahedeen,” said the driver after we made the turn to Yazgulam Village, leaving behind the picturesque road along the river Pyanj in Gorno Badakhshan Oblast of Tajikistan... Read More ...
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 Tajikistan Passes Its First Water Users Association Law
In November, the Parliament and President of the Republic of Tajikistan signed the country’s first Water User Association Law. Previously, water user associations (WUAs) were registered under the Law on Public Associations... Read More ...
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 Media Campaigns Compete to Reduce Drug Use
On November 30, an awards ceremony was held for the winners of the “The World without Narcotics” competition conducted under the auspices of the USAID-funded Drug Demand Reduction Program (DDRP) in partnership with Internews Tajikistan... Read More ...
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 Tajikistan Expands Successful School Budgeting Pilot Program
On October 30, the Government of Tajikistan agreed to expand the new school finance mechanism to ten additional regions from the current five pilot regions of Kulob, Vahdat, Yavan, Khojand, and Khorog... Read More ...
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 New Bazaar to Increase Local Economic Opportunities
Tavildara’s first bazaar, built with support from USAID’s Tajikistan Conflict Prevention Project, officially opened on September 3... Read More ...
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 Tajik Communities Learn to Protect their Environment
On October 31, USAID’s Water Users Associations Support Program (WUASP) organized an environmental protection public campaign “How to avoid pollution of canals” at School #64 in Chorteppa Jamoat, Rudaki District... Read More ...
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 Tajikistan Opens its Second Family Medicine Center
The USAID ZdravPlus Project opened a new Center of Excellence in Family Medicine at Konibodom City Health Center No.1 on September 22... Read More ...
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 USAID Prepares Teacher Trainers for the Fast Track
From August 21-28, USAID’s Participation, Education, and Knowledge Strengthening (PEAKS) program provided training to instructors from In-Service Teacher Training Institutes to prepare them... Read More ...
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 USAID Helps Form Water Committees
In the first weeks of July, a series of meetings on how to form water committees and manage water systems were conducted in Jarbulak, Kalam, and Navbunyod - three Asht District... Read More ...
Related Items: Tajikistan, Infrastructure
 USAID-Funded Junior Achievement Programs Received Tajik Ministry of Education
Approval
Junior Achievement has received approval from the Ministry of Education of Tajikistan to train teachers in
Junior Achievement programs in partnership with teacher retraining institutes... Read More ...
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 USAID’s Project Launches its Safe Motherhood, Newborn Care, and Family
Planning Strategy in Tajikistan
ZdravPlus began implementation of the strategy by initiating two Safe Motherhood pilots (one urban and another rural) in the Maternity Ward of the City Medical Center of Dushanbe and Maternity Ward of the Yavan Central District Hospital... Read More ...
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 Treatment Support Group Practice in DOTS Districts of Tajikistan
Treatment Support Groups, created by USAID’s tuberculosis (TB) control program in 2005, have observed a 93% improvement in adherence to treatment among patients who had previously reported problems with treatment in Tajikistan... Read More ...
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 Sentinel Surveillance Results Presented in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan
At conferences in May and June, the National AIDS Centers in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan introduced results of the HIV sentinel surveillance conducted with assistance from USAID through the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)... Read More ...
Related Items: Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Health
 To Prevent Youth Drug Use, New Subjects Introduced at Tajik Vocational
Schools
The Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of Tajikistan has recently approved two new subjects for the national vocational school curriculum: the Drug Use Prevention and the Street Business Toolkit... Read More ...
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 Public Council Created to Promote Local Cooperation in Tajikistan
To promote cooperation between urban and rural communities and to resolve local problems through inter-sectoral discussion and joint decision-making... Read More ...
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 Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan Cooperate to Improve Education
In May 2006, USAID signed agreements with the Ministries of Education of the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan to extend the Participation, Education, and Knowledge Strengthening Program (PEAKS) in these countries... Read More ...
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 Community Halts Deterioration of Homes and Land Thanks to USAID
After enduring years of damage from rising groundwater, Jarbulok community in Sughd Region was finally able to address the problem when USAID’s Peaceful Communities Initiatives Project arrived in their village... Read More ...
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 Environmental Protection Project Brings Tajik Communities Together
Recently, USAID’s Peaceful Community Initiative, implemented by Mercy Corps, completed a project to plant 4,400 new trees in public spaces in Hurmi and Sughd Oblasts... Read More ...
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 USAID-supported Economic Opportunity Center in Tajikistan Celebrates its
One-Year Anniversary
The Isfara City Economic Opportunity Center, established by the USAID Alternatives to Conflict in Tajikistan (ACT) Project, celebrated its one-year anniversary this month... Read More ...
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 Tajik Firm Finds Buyers in Afghanistan
Participation in the Rebuild Afghanistan Exhibition was an excellent investment for Tajik company Doro, a client of the USAID Enterprise Development Project (EDP) implemented by Pragma... Read More ...
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 Independent Tajikistani TV Stations Achieve Another Milestone
Eight independent regional TV stations have recently assumed production of a Tajik-language weekly news program. Since 2001, the news program, based on information and inputs from independent TV stations... Read More ...
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 USAID Relief First to Reach Tajikistan’s Avalanche Victims
During the night of January 31, 2006, snow avalanches struck several villages in the mountainous district of Jirgital, Tajikistan... Read More ...
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 Rehabilitated Water Pump Reduces Tension Among Communities in Panjakent District
In a remote and isolated region of Tajikistan, USAID’s Peaceful Communities Initiative Project (PCI) helped end a decades-long dispute over water between two communities in Jamoat Hurmi in Panjakent District... Read More ...
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 “Fast Track” Offers Boost for Tajikistan’s Education Sector
In late December, it was announced that Tajikistan will be awarded $18.4 million through the Fast Track Initiative to be used in support of the education sector in 2006-2007... Read More ...
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