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The World Health Organization was officially formed on 7th of April, 1948, as a specialized United Nations (UN) Agency. Although there are several UN agencies working in the health arena, only the WHO has a specific mandate for health. The WHO has a governing body, members and a single budget. A formal agreement with the UN secures the exchange of needed data and the use of general administrative practice.

The main objective of the WHO, consisting of 194 states, is to obtain and give the highest quality of health possible to all humanity. The WHO Constitution was endorsed in 1946 and became effective on the 7th of April, 1948, and since then, this date is celebrated as the World Health Day every year. The World Health Assembly is its key politically leading structure. It is held on a yearly basis in May in Geneva, Switzerland, where the WHO Headquarters is located. At the Assembly, the government delegations from all member states take part, and, based on a group consensus, the main areas of WHO policies are developed and established. Member states pay a membership fee, which contributes to the regular budget of the organization. Each state is entitled to one vote regardless of the amount of money or allocations they give to the budget. The Republic of Tajikistan was once again entitled to a voting right in 2006. However, the country was not able to pay the membership fee and since 2010 Tajikistan has no right to vote, which will not be restored until it starts to make the required contributions.

Tajikistan joined the World Health Organization in May, 1992, has sustained placement in the Europe Regional Office (WHO/EURO), and has become one of the 53 member states of the WHO Office for Europe, which is established in Copenhagen, Denmark. The WHO Country Office in Tajikistan is represented by the Head of Office who manages the office activity, programs and project implementation. The majority of its activities are provided by the technical and expert support under the Biennium Collaborative Agreement (BCA) made between the Ministry of Health of Tajikistan and the World Health Organization. Every two years, the BCA is given the key priority areas of health in the Republic. Under the BCA implementation, the WHO also provides various technical and financial support based on the requests of the Ministry of Health during emergencies or disasters such as disease outbreaks or severe weather. All requests for a long term support with respect to health issues are implemented through the Ministry of Health, which considers and rates them according to its priority areas. The World Health Organization does not give grants and credits, but, within the BCA, it maintains the capacity to help health professionals by conducting workshops and seminars, supporting Working Groups, or granting WHO scholarship programs to different health areas.

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The World Food Program is the frontline United Nations agency mandated to eradicate hunger worldwide. The United Nations General Assembly acted in 1961 to establish the World Food Program. WFP began its mission of eradicating hunger in January 1963 with the opening of its HQ in Rome. WFP is the world’s largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. Each year, on average, WFP feeds more than 90 million people in more than 70 countries.

WFP fights hunger primarily in two ways. In disasters, it provides emergency food aid and where people are chronically hungry, WFP provides food-for-work, food for health and food for education assistance, helping people to become self-reliant. Every day, WFP emergency response teams rush supplies to millions of the victims strife and disasters, be it war, ethnic conflict, political strife, flood, drought or crop failure. Such crises consume most of WFP’s resources. All contributions to WFP are voluntary. They come from donor nations, non-governmental organizations, corporations and individuals.

WFP Tajikistan is the largest international agency in the country with the capacity to undertake programs in all regions through its four field offices and through the Country Office in the capital.

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IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is the largest global development institution focused exclusively on the private sector. We help developing countries achieve sustainable growth by financing investment, mobilizing capital in international financial markets, and providing advisory services to businesses and governments. In FY12, our investments reached an all-time high of more than $20 billion, leveraging the power of the private sector to create jobs, spark innovation, and tackle the world’s most pressing development challenges.

Investment Services – IFC provides a broad range of financial products and services designed to promote economic development and help reduce poverty. IFC has expanded its investment program in Tajikistan significantly in the last three years, with commitments of $42.3 million in 10 projects in financial markets, manufacturing, and infrastructure.

Advisory Services – Private sector development requires more than just finance. Experience shows the powerful role advisory services can play in unlocking investment and helping businesses expand and create jobs. In FY11, advisory services project expenditures totaled $206.7 million. In Tajikistan, IFC works with the private sector clients, government and civil society to bring the benefit of the global expertise through its advisory services. IFC helps Tajik banks and companies strengthen their operations through improvements to risk management, internal controls, and business processes. IFC also works at the national level to improve the investment climate and introduce modern principles of private sector regulation.

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Five institutions together make up the World Bank Group: the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), the International Development Association (IDA), the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) and the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). The overarching goal of the World Bank Group’s operations is to help reducing poverty in the world.

The IBRD and IDA provide loans to the member countries for projects and programs that promote economic and social progress by helping raise productivity so that people may live better lives. Along with these loans/credits, the World Bank provides policy advice, technical assistance and helps to mobilize the needed resources.

The IBRD was established in 1945 and is now owned by 188 member countries. The IDA was established in 1960 and is now owned by 172 members. IDA provides assistance to the poorest developing countries that cannot meet the IBRD terms. IDA provides grants and credits.

IDA countries have access to concessional credits: 40 years repayment period, 10 years grace period and interest rate zero (with service fee of 0.75%).

The Republic of Tajikistan became a member of the World Bank on June 4, 1993. A liaison office of the Bank was first established in October 1996 and then up-graded to a full-fledge Country Office in December 1998.

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USAID works on the behalf of the American people to improve the lives of people throughout the world.

The name of our organization, USAID, is an abbreviation for the United States Agency for International Development. It is no coincidence that, in English, the acronym can be read to mean U.S. aid. USAID was created by the U.S. Government in 1961 to provide U.S. foreign economic and social assistance. Currently, USAID works in more than 100 countries around the world, in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe and Eurasia.

USAID promotes peace and stability by fostering economic growth, food security and trade; protecting health; improving the quality of and access to basic education; providing emergency humanitarian assistance; preventing conflicts; and enhancing democracy in developing countries. These efforts to improve the lives of millions of people worldwide represent U.S. values and advance U.S. interests for peace and prosperity.

USAID began providing assistance to Tajikistan in 1992, soon after the country became independent. Since that time, the American people, through USAID, have provided over $320 million in programs that assist the development of the country’s economic sector, education and healthcare systems, and governance institutions. USAID programs cooperate with ministries, governmental and non-government organizations, businesses, and communities to improve laws, create jobs, increase incomes, improve services, and better manage available resources.

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UN Women – the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women has been created to speed up the process of meeting the needs of women and girls across the world. As a part of the UN reform agenda, it brings together resources and mandates which will subsequently have a lasting impact on the whole community. 

UN Women in Tajikistan is expanding its relations and partnership with the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, Ministry of Labor, Migration and Employment, the National Committee for Women and Family Affairs under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan, the Agency on Statistics under the President’s Office, the State Committee on Investments and State Property Management of the Republic of Tajikistan, local authorities and civil society organizations. 

UN Women, in partnership with the national and international actors, supports efforts to address stereotypes and patriarchal norms leading to women’s vulnerability and low status in society. UN Women together with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ombudsperson’s office, Parliament, civil society organizations and other key partners has undertaken efforts to ensure efficient implementation and monitoring of the domestic violence legislation and effective inter-sectoral coordination of all efforts aimed at eliminating violence against women.

Currently UN Women is developing a new partnership to advance and enforce international commitments in the area of disaster risk reduction and gender equality and encourages learning and innovative approaches to ensure a fast start to recovery in the aftermath of disasters in Tajikistan. 

UN Women also leads the Extended UN Gender Theme Group, which provides a vibrant platform for national and international stakeholders to coordinate gender-specific activities in Tajikistan. As a member of the Rapid Emergency Assessment and Coordination Team (REACT), UN Women ensures that natural disaster-prone Tajikistan takes gender-responsive disaster risk reduction measures. 

The UN Women programme 2016-2020 for Tajikistan focuses on development of three impact areas:

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The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is mandated by the United Nations General Assembly to advocate for the protection of children’s and women’s rights, help meet their basic needs and expand their opportunities to reach their full potential. Guided by the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), UNICEF strives to establish children’s rights as enduring ethical principles and international standards of behavior towards children.

In Tajikistan, UNICEF began its work in 1993, shortly after the independence of the Republic. Now, UNICEF is in its fourth country programme cycle of cooperation in Tajikistan.

UNICEF Tajikistan closely co-operates with the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, Ministry of Finance, Ombudsman’s Office, National Commission on Child Rights, Agency on Statistics, local governments, donor agencies, other UN organizations and NGOs.

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The United Nations mandates UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee Organization, to lead and coordinate international action for the worldwide protection of refugees and the resolution of refugee problems. UNHCR’s primary purpose is to safeguard the rights and well-being of refugees. UNHCR strives to ensure that everyone can exercise the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge in another state, and to return home voluntarily. By assisting refugees to return to their own country or to settle in another country, UNHCR also seeks durable solution to their plight. UNHCR’s efforts are mandated by the organization’s Statute and guided by the 1951 UN Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 protocol. International Refugee Law provides an essential framework of principals for UNHCR’s humanitarian activities.

UNHCR actively seeks to consolidate the reintegration of returning refugees to their country of origin, thereby averting the recurrence of refugee-producing situations. UNHCR offers protection and assistance to refugees and other persons of concern to UNHCR, on the basis of their need and irrespective of their race, religion, political opinion or gender. UNHCR pays particular attention to the need of children and seeks to promote the equal rights of women and girls. In its effort to protect refugees and promote solution to their problems, UNHCR works in partnership with government, international and non-governmental organizations. UNHCR provides protection and assistance not only to refugees, but also to other categories of displaced or needy persons. These include asylum seekers, refugees who have returned home but still need help in rebuilding their lives, local civilian communities which are directly affected by the movements of refugees and stateless and internally displaced persons (IDPs).

UNHCR has been working closely with the Government on capacity building through training of judges, lawyers, and law enforcement bodies, providing technical assistance towards drafting legal instruments that would meet international standards. In addition to their legal vulnerability, refugees are highly dependent on UNHCR material assistance. UNHCR protection and material assistance serves as means of survival for many of them.