Tajikistan
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Photo: Jason Sangster for Mercy Corps
Our strategy
Strengthen the economic development of communities by focusing on improved health services and youth empowerment.
The context
Tajikistan remains the poorest nation in Central Asia. Its civil war in the 1990s severely damaged the country’s already weak economic infrastructure and caused a sharp decline in industrial and agricultural production. Uneven implementation of structural reforms and widespread unemployment have kept the economy in a fragile condition and left families struggling with extreme poverty, poor healthcare and isolation. The country is also vulnerable to earthquakes, floods, avalanches, mudslides, energy shortages, locusts and crop failure leading to increasing food insecurity.
Our work
- Conflict & Governance: Creating community cohesiveness by engaging groups on water, land and energy improvements
- Disaster preparedness: Helping remote villages create response plans in the event of natural disasters
- Health: Supporting clinics and training health workers to improve childbirth outcomes and address postpartum depression
- Women & Gender: Educate adolescent girls about their rights and the risks of early marriage and pregnancy
All stories about Tajikistan
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Tajikistan: Tajikistan's New Entrepreneurs January 13, 2006
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Tajikistan: Where Wars and Conflicts are Forgotten October 22, 2003
“During sports competitions all wars and conflicts are forgotten and forgiven.”
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Tajikistan: A Bridge of Pride October 21, 2003
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Tajikistan: A HIV/AIDS Awareness Program in Tajikistan September 3, 2003
Tajikistan is among the "second wave" countries, those who were shielded from HIV/AIDS for many years by geographic and political isolation.
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Tajikistan: ECHO Disaster Preparedness Project April 15, 2003
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Tajikistan: A Little Health Learning Goes a Long Way October 14, 2002
What do you do with toothpaste?
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Tajikistan: Training Tajik Farmers July 8, 2002
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Tajikistan: A Better Day July 2, 2002
The Behruz farm in Hozamalik, just outside of the Tajikistan capital, Dushanbe, is appropriately named. Behruz means a "better day" in Tajik, and, thanks in part to a Mercy Corps program, a better day is exactly what this farm is seeing.
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Tajikistan: Mercy Corps Program Sends Tajik Teachers Back to School August 30, 2001
[Editor’s note: Portions of this article originally appeared in the newspaper, Kuliobskaya Pravda, on July 6, 2001.] Sixty high school economics teachers in Tajikistan are heading back to their classrooms this fall armed with a powerful weapon: increased knowledge.
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Tajikistan: Vose Emergency Resettlement Project March 19, 2001