Tajikistan

Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program (MCHIP)

Duration: 
May 2010 - September 2014

Assistance in response to a polio outbreak in Central Asia to address: Read more »

USAID Develops Export Partnerships in Central Asia

04/27/2012

Almaty, Kazakhstan — USAID’s Regional Economic Integration Project in alliance with the Central Asian Tax Research Center of KIMEP University will hold an “Export Partnerships” training seminar for Central Asian small- and medium-sized enterprises and NGOs. The three-day training session will be held in the Alatau Resort Hotel in Almaty, April 27-29, 2012. Read more »

U.S. Government Celebrates World Tuberculosis Day

04/05/2012

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) organized a series of entertaining, educational events for World Tuberculosis (TB) Day to draw public attention to the TB epidemic in Tajikistan.  From March 24-April 4, events were held in Dushanbe, Vahdat, Khujand, Qurghonteppa, and Kulob in close cooperation with the Ministry of Health, governmental organizations, and non-governmental partners of USAID.

Jeffrey Lehrer, USAID Tajikistan Country Office Director, opened the event in Vahdat noting, “The United States is committed to helping Tajikistan fight the TB epidemic. Read more »

U.S. Government Supports Cross-Border Energy Trade between Tajikistan and Afghanistan

04/04/2012

USAID, On the heels of the successful Fifth Regional Economic Cooperation Conference on Afghanistan (RECCA V), the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), together with the Aga Khan Foundation USA and in close collaboration with the Pamir Energy Company, signed an agreement to foster cross-border energy trade between Tajikistan and Afghanistan. Read more »

Perseverance Brings Justice

Gulbahor knows what it means to fight for land use rights. In 2007 she became the chairwoman of a 50-member farm in northern Tajikistan, which was created after a state-owned collective farm was reorganized. As part of the reorganization process, the new farm was saddled with some $40,000 of the former state-owned farm’s debt.

One of the farm’s members, a well-connected businessman, used his influence to persuade local authorities to improperly reassign nearly half of the farm’s land directly to him. Read more »

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