IOM Tajikistan Newsletter
In the period from August to November 2014, IOM Tajikistan has carried out an assessment to determine the effectiveness of training programmes and identify knowledge gaps among Tajik and Afghan border crossing points’ personnel attending joint workshops on Humanitarian Border Management.
Local authorities, Migration Service, Republican and local centres for the protection of population against TB joined the public events and roundtables for the International Migrants Day organized by IOM Tajikistan and cooperating NGO partners. The events were launched on 17 December and concluded on 19 December in Qurghon Teppa and Kulob southern cities of Tajikistan.
In November 2014 IOM Tajikistan conducted a series of half-day roundtables in Dushanbe, Tojikobod and Kulob to discuss the rights of women and children from migrants’ families. The events were organized within the framework of the two year-long projects funded by the Government of Norway and the European Union and implemented together with UN Women and Save the Children International.
On November 18, IOM Tajikistan organized a technical meeting, which brought together an array of relevant sectors to discuss the engagement of diaspora in development as well as other issues pertaining to the regulation of migration processes.
In recognition of International Migrants Day, the IOM Mission in Tajikistan along with the relevant state ministries and committees, international and civil society partners in cooperation with local authorities, communities, universities, colleges, schools and mass media organized a series of public events in the capital and throughout Tajikistan.
During the period April–May 2014, IOM Tajikistan has delivered the 5th and 6th rounds of ten-day joint “Humanitarian Border Management” (HBM) workshops targeting 15 Tajik and 24 Afghan personnel of border crossing points of the two countries. The HBM Course took place at the Training Centres in Dushanbe and Khorog – the capital of Badakhshan Province of Tajikistan.
Started in 1983, the International AIDS Candlelight Memorial takes place every third Sunday in May and is led by a coalition of some 1,200 community organizations in 115 countries.
Dushanbe, Tajikistan, 5 and 17 June 2014 – Deputy Heads of local governments, community leaders, the Head of a local TB Control Centre, IOM and PSI participated in two round tables organized within the framework of the USAID Dialogue on HIV and TB Project.
Danghara, Tajikistan, 28 May 2014 - NGO “Farodis”, a sub-recipient of the GFATM TB grant, hosted IOM and staff of the USAID Dialogue on HIV and TB Project partners from Kulob and Qurghonteppa in Danghara.The visitors familiarized with objectives, main components, targeted indicators as well as roles and responsibilities within the GFATM-sponsored project.
Norak, Tajikistan, 26 May 2014 – The IOM mission in Tajikistan successfully delivered 1500 litres of fuel to operate machines excavating debris in the town of Norak.
Dushanbe, Tajikistan, 25-26 June 2014 – The Ministry of Labour, Migration and Population Employment and IOM last week hosted a National Forum of Compatriots in Dushanbe.
Yos-Romit, Tajikistan, 13 June 2014 – Staff members of IOM Tajikistan attended a full day workshop on the Migration Crisis Operational Framework (MCOF) held at a training facility in the Romit area of Tajikistan.