Improving living standards and quality of life in Tajikistan requires a concentrated effort from both the highest levels of government to the community level. Expanding on its well-established Reconstruction Rehabilitation and Development Programme, in 2004 UNDP began implementing a community-driven programme (the CP) to ensure the sustainable development of the most marginalized communities throughout the country. This shift represented a programming change from a predominantly humanitarian and stabilization-focused programme to one that emphasizes sustaining long-term change in the economic and social conditions at the community-level.

Today, UNDP and other UN Agencies operating in Tajikistan support the government in the implementation of development strategies including PRS and NDS, designed to achieve the MDGs. The UNDP CP in Tajikistan is aligned with the UN country and agency-wide assistance strategy, the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) and the Country Programme Action Plan (CPAP). The focus of the CP builds on the strategic priorities of the country and outlines specific areas of development assistance intended to support the government including advancing economic and democratic reform while fostering civil society participation. Previously, the two UNDAF outcomes contributed towards by the CP fall within two areas identified by the Framework: Transforming Livelihoods and Good Governance.

CP will be implemented also in the framework of the Joint Country Partnership Strategy (JCPS) elaborated by leading development agencies active in Tajikistan. The main JCPS themes and sectors include: a) support for broad-based economic growth by increasing productivity in agriculture, realizing export potential in energy, improving connectivity in transport, and strengthening other physical infrastructure required to enable growth; b) support for human development by enhancing education and health and by addressing vulnerability through improved social protection; c) support for good governance by reforming public administration (including the civil service and wages) and public financial management, promoting private and financial sector development, and strengthening the rule of law.

Since 2004, the CP has helped the most marginalized to address their needs by building capacity to identify common priorities, mobilize local capital and resources, and foster community ownership. It has closely engaged with poverty reduction and local governance issues, operating at the local level through its five area offices in Sughd, Khatlon, and the Rasht and Zarafshan Valleys. Previous activities of CP have focused on fostering employment and income-generation opportunities, improving the quality and accessibility of public services and making local governments more accountable and representative of its constituents.

Through a strong network of local and international partners, CP worked in 40 districts throughout the country, in Sughd, Khatlon, and the districts of republican subordination. The CP’s key partners in implementation are the Jamoat Resource and Advocacy Centres (JRCs) and District Development Councils (DDCs), whose establishment the Programme has supported, respectively at the jamoat and district levels, throughout its areas of operation. The Programme has also made a concerted effort to strengthen its partnership with the formal government structure at the jamoat, district, regional, and central levels, the latter reflected in the agreements signed between UNDP and the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade (MEDT), the Strategic Research Centre (SRC), Institute for the Civil Servants Training (ICST), Ministry of Finance (MoF), State Statistic Committee (SSC), the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection (MLSP) and the Parliament. Moreover, CP has also sought to engage private firms and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in its activities by subcontracting their implementation through competitive tender processes.

Project coverage: Sughd, Districts of Republican Subordination, Eastern and Western Khatlon

Period of the project: January 2010 – December 2012 (according to the latest Project Document)

Status of the project: ongoing

CO Supervising officer: Mubin Rustamov, UNDP Programme Analyst




Donor Agencies: UK Department for International Development (DFID), Asian Development Bank, Canadian International Development Agency, Czech Trust Fund, Democratic Governance Thematic Trust Fund (DGTTF) of the UNDP, Department for International Development, Government of Germany, Global Environment Fund, International Labor Organization, International Development Association/World Bank, Slovak Trust Fund, Technical Assistance for Commonwealth of Independent States, European Union (TACIS EU), The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Government of Norway, Government of Finland.

Project Partners: Local authorities at province and district levels, Jamoat Administration, Construction and Architecture Committee, Ministry of Land Reclamation and Water Management, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, Ministry of Finance, State Statistic Committee, Institute for Civil Servants Training, Strategic Research Center, German Agency for Technical Cooperation, German AgroAction, Japan International Cooperation Agency, Agha-Khan Foundation, CARITAS, International Secretariat for Water, Merlin, Mission East, Oxford Committee for Famine Relief (OXFAM), ACTED, United States Agency for International Development, United Nations Children’s Fund, World Health Organization, and other national and international agencies.

 

 

* - Data for 2010 is menioned based on Annual Work Plan for 2010.

Библиотека проекта:

1. Report 'Issues and Recommendations for Community Level Rural Water Supply in Tajikistan (English & Tajik)
2. Project Document (English & Russian)
3. Информационная брошюра ПРС
4. Брошюра ПРС
5. Annual Programme Report 2009
6. Annual Work Plan 2010 (English & Russian)
7. CP's Lessons Learned: 2004 - 2009 (English & Russian)

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