Members

FCDO – Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

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Organization Overview

FCDO – Department for International Development is the UK Government department responsible for promoting sustainable development, reducing poverty and achieving the Millennium Development Goals. FCDO started its bilateral programmes in Tajikistan in 2003 firstly known as DFID.

The FCDO office in Tajikistan is based in the British Embassy, Dushanbe. Since April 2012 FCDO (DFID) Tajikistan has become a regional office and oversees Kyrgyzstan programme as well. The newly established British Embassy in Kyrgyzstan also has a development section which helps run programmes in the country.

FCDO works in partnership with the Governments of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan and the international donor community to support a country driven, result oriented, poverty reduction programme. Our medium term strategy for Central Asia is reflected in our Operational Plan for 2011-2015. DFID supports the adoption of the DAC Paris declaration for improved aid effectiveness.

 

 

Ms. Sarah Cooper

Regional Development Director
Tel: (+992 37) 224 22 21
Fax: (+992 37) 227 17 26
Website:  https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/foreign-commonwealth-development-office
Address: 65 Mirzo Tursunzade Street
Dushanbe, Tajikistan

Members

Eurasian Fund for Stabilization and Development

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About the Fund

The Eurasian Fund for Stabilization and Development (EFSD, before known as the EURASEC Anti-Crisis Fund) is a regional financial arrangement It was established by Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan in 2009.

EFSD mission is to assist member-countries in their long-run economic and financial stability. EFSD is guided by the members` finance ministries. Supreme decision-making body is EFSD Council consisting of members` Finance Ministers.

EFSD financial instruments are:

  • Financial Credits (FCs) are sovereign loans that support stabilization programs aimed at making member-economies more resilient to external and domestic shocks. FCs support sovereign budgets and/or balance of payments.
  • Investment Loans (ILs) are available to governments implementing critical infrastructure investment projects that contribute long-term economic and financial stability.
  • Grants are available to sovereigns for projects in social sphere: education, healthcare, public governance, social security and protection, including food security.

EFSD projects in the Republic of Tajikistan: link to the EFSD web page on projects

EFSD analytics and research: link to the EFSD web page on research

EFSD credits and loans are repayable and carry interest. In lending countries with low per capita income, EFSD takes into account loan concessionality recommendations of the International Monetary Fund. The prospective borrower should have no debt arrears to the Fund itself, to any of its member countries, and to other international financial institutions.

For more information please visit: https://efsd.org/en/

Eurasian Fund for Stabilization and Development presents the EFSD Sovereign Financing Database (SFD). Monitoring of Sovereign Financing by IFIs and Development Agencies in Eurasia. Click to view

Contacts in Tajikistan

Mr. Zulfiqor Zamonov, Country Representative

 

Aini Street 48,
Business Centre «Sozidanie»,
Dushanbe, 734024, Republic of Tajikistan
Tel: +992 43 3773 444
Fax: +992 43 3773 333
For information contact:info@efsd.org
News

Round Table “Entrepreneurship and Investment as Basis for Economic Growth”

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National Library of Tajikistan – 16 October 2020

 Jan-Peter Olters

Chair, Development Coordination Council

Of the set of socio-economic development challenges in Tajikistan, spanning those inherited from pre-COVID-19 times to those that have surfaced since spring, the answer tends to be private-sector development.

  • Digital transformation. Two days ago, in this very room, the potential inherent in the development of Tajikistan’s information and communication technologies (ICT) sector has been discussed, and there has been a broad consensus that the success in the country’s digital transformation required investments by private companies and opened the possibility to unlock a considerably—hitherto largely unexploited—potential for new private companies, including those that would provide employment opportunities for the young living in rural and remote areas.
  • Food security. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought challenges of food security to the forefront, together with official encouragements for increased local food production and processing—relying on micro and small businesses as agents to increase agricultural self-reliance and reinforce the foundation for exports.

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News

Second Intersession Meeting of the Consultative Council on Improvement of Investment Climate under the President of the Republic of Tajikistan

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“Issues of conducting analysis and preparation of recommendations for improving the investment climate in the field of information and communication technologies”

Jan-Peter Olters

Chair, Development Coordination Council

October 14, 2020

Digital Transformation as Central COVID-19 Response Policy

The COVID-19 pandemic is confronting every country worldwide with new sets of socio-economic development challenges. Already, we can see that some countries—irrespective of their income levels—have sought to ignore resultant risks and, for that reason, overlooked opportunities, with which to balance the costs from lockdowns, travel restrictions, and other social distancing measures. Without efforts to support domestic production, foster innovation, and protect employment, these countries have risked increased socio-political fragility. Already, it has become obvious in several countries that the absence of economic perspectives and increasing levels of income and food insecurity fuelled intra-society conflicts and unrest. Read More

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