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UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is an international development agency that promotes the right of every woman, man and child to enjoy a life of health and equal opportunity. UNFPA supports countries in using population data for policies and programmes to reduce poverty and to ensure that every pregnancy is wanted, every birth is safe, every young person is free of HIV/AIDS, and every girl and woman is treated with dignity and respect.

The UNFPA programme seeks to strengthen institutional and human capacity of its partner organizations to:

•  Make policy decisions and deliver services; improve the availability and accessibility of high-quality reproductive health services, including in emergencies;

•  Ensure systematic use of population dynamics analyses to guide increased investments in gender equality, youth development, reproductive health, and HIV and AIDS for improved quality of life and sustainable development and poverty reduction and advance gender equality and

Empower women and adolescent girls to exercise their human rights, particularly their reproductive rights and live free of discrimination and violence.

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UNDP is the UN’s global development network, advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. At the global level, UNDP chairs the United Nations Development Group (UNDG), which includes the UN’s key players in international development. UNDP is also helping to reinforce joint action on development in such forums as the Economic and Social Council, and the General Assemble of the United Nations. We are on the ground in 177 countries including Tajikistan, working with them on their own solutions to global and national development challenges. As they develop local capacity, they draw on the people of UNDP and our wide range of partners. UNDP also helps developing countries attract and use aid effectively. In all its activities, UNDP encourages the protection of human rights, capacity development and the empowerment of women.

UNDP has been on the ground in Tajikistan since 1994. Nowadays, Tajikistan is a peaceful and stable country, with a rapidly developing economy. Tajikistan has ranked as 127th among 187 countries in the 2011 Human Development Report, though country still has the lowest human development index (HDI) among the CIS countries. Despite of all development prospective the country is still simultaneously facing challenges of transition and a post-crisis period. In order to assist Tajikistan with its Development Agenda UNDP programme in the country consequently represents a broad spectrum of activities, within the five thematic practice areas:

• Poverty Reduction and Achievement of MDGs
• Reducing burden of HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis
• Good Governance
• Crisis Prevention and Recovery
• Environment and Sustainable Development

Each year, the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan and UNDP Office in Tajikistan sign an Annual Work Plans, specifying the planned activities for the year, project by project. As indicated, most of UNDP Tajikistan’s projects belong both to a global UNDP practice area, and to a national UNDAF award.

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Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) was founded with the aim of contributing economic and social development efforts in developing countries. TIKA has been implementing programmes and projects through its Programme Coordination Offices that are located in 62 countries across four continents, Asia, Europe, Africa and America. Turkish Government has provided a total of approximately US$ 95 million Official Development Assistance (ODA) to the Republic of Tajikistan between 1992 and 2020.

Turkish ODA is implemented mainly through TIKA. Under the current circumstances, the main priority areas, on which TIKA focuses in Tajikistan, are as follows:

• development of educational infrastructure
• development of health care infrastructure
• development of agriculture
• vocational training
• development of social, cultural and economic infrastructure

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Swiss Cooperation Office (SCO) was established on the basis of the bilateral Agreement on Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid signed by the Governments of Switzerland and Tajikistan on 19 October 1999.

The Office has diplomatic status and is headed by a Swiss diplomatic representative, assigned by the Government of Switzerland to maintain cooperation issues and supervise the Swiss Program in Tajikistan. Since 2001, SCO includes the Swiss Consular Agency, which is an outpost of the Embassy of Switzerland to Kazakhstan and Tajikistan. SCO represents three governmental donor agencies: the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and the Human Security Division of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, and the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) of the Federal Department of Economic Affairs.

It also represents other Swiss Federal Departments in Tajikistan as well the Swiss Ambassador accredited to Kazakhstan and Tajikistan, with permanent residence in Kazakhstan. Cooperation between Tajikistan and Switzerland is based on the common constituency Group in the Bretton Woods Institutions, where Tajikistan belongs to the ‘Swiss Group’. SCO works with governmental bodies and the corresponding ministries in health, economy, energy, water, rule of law and human rights. In the same areas SCO works with local public organizations, civil society organizations, UN Agencies, Development Banks, International Finance Institutions, Consultant Agencies and international nongovernmental partners such as Caritas Switzerland, Focus Humanitarian Assistance, Aga Khan Foundation, and the Swiss Centre for International Health of the Swiss Tropical Institute.

Furthermore, since 2010 Switzerland has been supporting the Human Rights Programme in Tajikistan in five priority areas of collaboration which were commonly defined: 1) Universal Periodic Review; 2) Migration; 3) Women’s Rights and domestic violence; 4) Abolition of Death Penalty; and  5) Torture and Detention.

The Swiss-funded projects are implemented by the partners of SCO, and only in exceptional cases by SCO itself. Projects funded by the Swiss Government are formulated in line with the development plans of the Government of Tajikistan, and formalized by bilateral project agreements and are usually of mid-term duration (2-3 years). The financing of projects is provided in the form of grants. SCO is in charge of handling the relations with the Government of Tajikistan regarding specific projects and the Swiss program of cooperation in Tajikistan in general. It is also responsible for receiving and providing the initial appraisal of requests for assistance. Depending on the budget, the final decision on the funding is made by SCO or by the Swiss governmental donor agencies responsible for consideration and approval.

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Diplomatic relations between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Tajikistan were established in April 8, 1992. Treaty of friendship, collaboration and mutual aid was signed (25 May 1993). More than 100 interstate, intergovernmental and interagency agreements regulating collaboration in political, economical, military, humanitarian and other spheres were signed.

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KfW Entwicklungsbank, the Germany development bank – is a competent and strategic advisor on current development issues. Reducing poverty, securing peace, protecting natural resources and helping to shape globalization are the main priorities of KfW Entwicklungsbank.

On behalf of the German Federal Government it finances reforms, infrastructure and financial systems for socially and ecologically compatible economic growth. As part of KfW Bankengruppe it is a worldwide financing partner, and it also employs funds of its own for development projects. KfW Entwicklungsbank knows about the potentials and problems in developing countries thanks to its close cooperation with local partners and target groups.

It actively seeks to cooperate with German and International partners in order to further enhance the developmental effectiveness and efficiency of its activities.

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The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is the world’s largest regional security organization including 57 participating states covering the whole Europe, Central Asia and North America (the United States and Canada). It offers a forum for political negotiations and decision-making in the fields of early warning, conflict prevention, crisis management and post-conflict rehabilitation, and puts the political will of its participating States into practice through its unique network of field missions. The Organization has a comprehensive approach to security that encompasses political-military, economic and environmental, and human aspects. It therefore addresses a wide range of security-related concerns, including arms control, confidence- and security-building measures, human rights, national minorities, democratization, policing strategies, counter-terrorism and economic and environmental activities. States participating to the OSCE committed themselves to these values and created an operational structure to facilitate and support their implementation. All 57 participating States enjoy equal status, and decisions are taken by consensus on a politically, but not legally binding basis.

The OSCE first established a presence in Tajikistan in early 1994 when it opened the Mission to Tajikistan. In October 2002 it was renamed to the Centre in Dushanbe and its mandate was revised, and its tasks were broadened to include work in all the three dimensions of the OSCE: Political-Military, Economic and Environmental, and Human Dimension. In June 2008, it became the Office in Tajikistan.

The Office’s refocused mandate offers wider opportunities to tackle existing challenges in the development of Tajikistan. The mandate includes promoting the implementation of OSCE principles and commitments; assisting in the development of a legal framework and democratic political institutions and processes; facilitating contacts and promoting information exchange with OSCE bodies and institutions and participating States in Central Asia; and establishing and maintaining contacts with local authorities, universities, research institutions and NGOs. The Office co-operates closely with the Government in implementing its mandate, on the basis of mutual understanding and common agreement. As well, the Office engages in consultations and co-ordination with the OSCE institutions, as well as other stakeholders including international organizations, civil society groups, academia and bilateral donors active in Tajikistan.

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The Japan International Cooperation Agency is an independent governmental agency that coordinates official development assistance (ODA) for the government of Japan. It is chartered with assisting economic and social growth in developing countries, and the promotion of international cooperation. JICA is one of the largest bilateral development organizations in the world with a network of 97 overseas offices, and projects in more than 150 countries.

JICA began its technical cooperation with Tajikistan in 1993 by offering 21 seats for officials in Tajikistan to study in Japan. Total number of participants in training Tajik officials in Japan covers around 1400 people from early 1993 until April 2012. At the start of the cooperation, the main direction was made at consolidating peace. Training Tajik officials in Japan was a big part of the technical cooperation and only in 2003 the projects based on grant aid was introduced, and in 2006 JICA Office was opened in Dushanbe.

JICA implements the following programs in the Republic of Tajikistan: a program for the protection of mother and child health, water supply program, the program on poverty reduction through rural development, program to improve the roads and their maintenance, capacity building program. The aggregate amount of grant aid provision to Tajikistan constitutes 214.34 million USD as of 2011 and the total amount of the provision of technical assistance is constitutes 55.6 million USD as of 2011.

In Tajikistan, JICA attaches high priority to Khatlon region, because it is the poorest and the lowest Human Development Index (HDI) level region in Tajikistan, and located next to Afghanistan.

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Established in 1951, IOM is the leading inter-governmental organization in the field of migration and works closely with governmental, intergovernmental and non-governmental partners. With 149 Members, a further 12 observers and more than 450 field offices in over 100 countries, IOM is dedicated to promoting humane and orderly migration for the benefit of all. It does so by providing services and advice to governments and migrants. IOM works to help ensure the orderly and humane management of migration, to promote international cooperation on migration issues, to assist in the search for practical solutions to migration problems and to provide humanitarian assistance to migrants in need, including refugees and internally displaced people.

IOM started its work in Tajikistan in 1992 after winning independence. As of 1994 Tajikistan became the member state of IOM and the cooperation agreement was signed with the Government of Tajikistan.

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The work of the IMF is of three main types. Surveillance involves the monitoring of economic and financial developments, and the provision of policy advice, aimed especially at crisis-prevention. The IMF also lends to countries with balance of payments difficulties, to provide temporary financing and to support policies aimed at correcting the underlying problems; loans to low-income countries are also aimed especially at poverty reduction. Third, the IMF provides countries with technical assistance and training in its areas of expertise. Supporting all three of these activities is IMF work in economic research and statistics.