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.

The Project “Promotion of social and economic opportunities for women and youth in Zerafshan Valley of Tajikistan” funded by the Government of the Russian Federation, through Russian Federation - UNDP Trust Fund for Development and implemented by UNDP Tajikistan. The total amount of support is 1.7 million dollars aimed at promotion social and economic opportunities for women and youth.

The objective of this project is to reinforce border management capacity and trans-border cooperation in the Northern provinces of Afghanistan. The project intention is to improve cross-border cooperation and the capacity to reduce crime thereby increasing legal trade, travel and commerce along Afghanistan’s border with Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

The project aim is to improve security and economic status of Tajik-Afghan border adjacent communities.

he Disaster Risk Management Programme (DRMP) is the primary mechanism through which UNDP addresses disaster preparedness, response, recovery and risk reduction in Tajikistan. DRMP was originally established in 2003. It addresses the serious and chronic problems faced by Tajikistan and its regional neighbors with regard to natural disaster management – comprising of disaster preparedness, response, recovery and most importantly mitigation and prevention by three UN agencies (UN ISDR, OCHA, led by UNDP).

To reduce the negative human and material impact of disasters on Tajikistan by improving the management of these risks.

The Tajikistan Mine Action Center coordinates all mine action related projects in the country in order to ensure Tajikistan’s compliance with the requirements under the Ottawa treaty, which was ratified by Tajikistan in 1999. Founded in 2003 with the support of the UNDP, the TMAC oversees Tajikistan’s efforts in the areas of demining operations, information management, mine risk education, as well as victim assistance. It is the country’s focal point for all implementing partners in the field, the Government of Tajikistan, as well as the international mine action community.

The key goal of the project is to provide universal access to HIV services, and lay the foundation for stabilizing the country’s epidemic.

The project is a follow up to the GEF regional HCFC MSP project, which helped develop detailed survey data on HCFCs in CEITs and full HCFC phase-out strategies were developed to meet the compliance targets. Overall, the project deals with hydro-chlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs), a group of ozone-depleting chemicals, which are used in a variety of applications such as refrigerants, foam-blowing agents, solvents, fire extinguishers and aerosols.

The project is strategic in that it responds to a targeted set of underlying barriers to environmental management towards the goal of meeting and sustaining global environmental outcomes. Specifically, the project will catalyze cooperation and coordination that has previously been limited by narrow institutional mandates and obsolete methods of analysis and decision-making...