Eng - UNDP in Tajikistan

DEVELOPMENT PARTNER PROFILE
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Regional Office for
Central Asia
Multilateral
Contact: Mr. James Callahan
Regional Representative
Tel: (+998-71)-1208050 Fax: (+998-71)-120-62-90
E-mail: unodc.roca@unodc.org
Website: www.unodc.org/uzbekistan
Organization Profile
UNODC ROCA is headquartered in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, with sub-offices in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. It aims
to reduce the impact that drugs and crime have on development in the region. To do so, it carries out a range of activities. ROCA analyses and
disseminates information on drug and crime issues. Based on these analyses, it develops and implements assistance projects in the Central
Asian republics that pre-empt, prevent, mitigate and react to the damage caused by drugs and crime. These include law enforcement training
programs, policy/legislation advice to governments and drug abuse reduction. An important parallel responsibility for ROCA is to generate
and facilitate regional responses to international and transnational problems related to its mandate.
Past and Current Programmes
UNODC has completed several projects in Tajikistan including preparatory assistance of the Strengthening of Control Measures on the Tajik-
Afghan Border (RAS/98/D63, US$ 62,150); Promotion of a multisectoral effective response to HIV/AIDS and STD in Drug use Tajikistan
(TAJ/99/E39, US$ 228,000); Institution-Building, Strategy Development and Improvement of Drug and Crime Control Measures in
Tajikistan (TAJ/99/D65 US$4,175,800); Strengthening Control Capacity of the Russian Federal Border Service along the border between
Afghanistan and Tajikistan (RER/00/E23, US$ 2,049,800); and Anti-Drug measures in Tajikistan (TAJ/02/G65 US$ 352,139 ˆ 400,000).
There are two ongoing UNODC projects in Tajikistan:
• TAJ/E24 - “Strengthening control along the Tajik/Afghan border”, revised budget US$ 8,125,414
Prime beneficiaries of the revised project would be (1) border guards (MDBF of the SCNS), (2) the counter-narcotics and analysis
departments of the SCNS, and (3) Counter Drugs Department (CDD) of the MOI. The project will provide extended support to these agencies
in further developing their intelligence analysis, communication and information sharing capacities, thus increasing the cooperation of these
bodies. The CDD of the MOI and the MDBF SCNS will be assisted by the project in establishing and developing an interagency mobile
investigation unit. The project also will assist MDBF in (1) upgrading selected border outposts in Shuroabad area of Tajik-Afghan border; (2)
strengthening its operations/intelligence department; and (3) in cooperating with Afghan counterparts.
• TAJ/H03 - “Tajikistan Drug Control Agency (DCA) - (Phase II of TAJ/D65)”, Revised budget - US$ 11,384,261
The current project revision aims at (a) improving international cooperation by increasing joint operational activities such as controlled
deliveries; (b) strengthening national cooperation by increasing joint operational activities and having the DCA officers providing training to
other Tajik drug law enforcement agencies (train the trainers), establish infrastructure for information exchange among Tajik drug law
enforcement agencies; (c) extending the duration of the project in line with the continuing need for donor support to the DCA; (d) prolonging
the originally planned duration of the exit strategy in response to significantly changed external circumstances e.g. the massive opium poppy
cultivation and morphine/heroin production in Afghanistan during 2006 following a non broken trend in 2007 and the Russian Federal Border
Services (RFBS) withdrawal from the Tajik Afghan border; (e) further development of forensic and chemical analysis capacities; and (f)
strengthening the existing drug detecting dogs handlers’ capacity.
Tajikistan also participates in several regional projects, including the CARICC project (RER/H22), precursor control (RER/E29), regional
information systems (RER/F23), controlled deliveries (RER/F43) computer-based training for enforcement (CBT, RER/F60), effective HIV
prevention and care for vulnerable population in Central Asia and Azerbaijan/2006-2010 (RER/I29) and in new demand reduction
interventions. UNODC cooperates with Tajik authorities in several global and regional projects.
Since 2001, after sustained advisory and drafting support provided under GLO/900 “Legal assistance project for East Asia and the CIS
countries”, domestic legislation in the fields of licit drug control and combating illicit drug trafficking has been significantly upgraded in line
with the UN drug control conventions. Law-enforcement and judicial personnel, as well as licit drug control regulatory authorities have
received substantive training in the field of international legal cooperation (mutual legal assistance, extradition, confiscation) and in the field
of control of licit drugs, respectively.
Since 2005 assistance is being provided under the UNODC “Global Project on strengthening of legal regime against terrorism” by UNODC
Terrorism Prevention Branch.
Future Programming Direction
The Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan face a variety of security threats and
developmental challenges. These include terrorism, escalating rates of drug abuse and a commensurately increasing HIV/AIDS rate, weak
Source: Aid Coordination and Project Monitoring System Database
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