Eng - UNDP in Tajikistan

DEVELOPMENT PARTNER PROFILE
NGO
Act Central Asia
Contact: Ms. Surayo Yuldasheva
Country Representative
Tel: 221-85-27, 227-43-41 Fax:
E-mail: syuldasheva@actca.tj
Website:
Organization Profile
Act Central Asia is the Representation of Christian Aid, United Kingdom and has been working in Central Asia since 1996. The general
objectives of Act Central Asia are to enhance the quality and impact of work in the region by improving the service and support to our
partners - local NGOs.
The programmes in Tajikistan involve around fifteen partner organizations of differing size and at various stages of development. The major
priorities and themes of these programmes are the provision of basic services with a rights-based approach to vulnerable and marginalised
urban and sub-urban groups such as pensioners, street children and settlers, community development with a strong focus on self-help groups
as a basis for mobilization and empowerment and micro-finance development, rural livelihood development which includes micro-crediting,
work on land rights, health and reproductive health education, HIV and AIDS and work on improving gender relations and reducing violence
against women.
Act Central Asia principles:
The principles underlying our activities are to work for the eradication of poverty and the fulfillment of human dignity and human rights
through a commitment to:
• Supporting and strengthening local development actors and their initiatives with a long term perspective
• A rights based approach to development aimed at empowering the poor and marginalized to secure a life with dignity and their
basic human rights
• Solidarity with the poorest of the poor even if the impact of our support is not immediate and may be hard to demonstrate
• Gender-sensitive development which promotes greater equality in gender relations across the whole programme
• Work with institutions, organizations, communities and individuals, which are faith-based or secular.
Past and Current Programmes
HIV/AIDS
Act Central Asia started its HIV and AIDS interventions in Tajikistan in 2005, mainly with financial and technical support of Christian Aid
and with a strong focus on mainstreaming the issue within the work of local Aсt Central Asia partners. Supported interventions in Tajikistan
are not limited to mainstreaming HIV and AIDS but also include interventions aimed at the prevention of the further spread of HIV and at the
improvement of the social and economic position of people living with HIV.
Act Central Asia has identified some areas in which it is particularly interested, these choices are based on a variety of factors: the HIV/aids
policies of the different Act Central Asia members; the type of partners Act Central Asia is actually working with; earlier context studies
done; and information of external sources:
• Effective awareness raising and education, including gender and sexual violence issues
• Strengthening networking movement
• PLHA inclusion in developing programme work, PLHA care and support, PLH rights
• Stigma reduction through faith-based and PLHA-led approaches
• Mainstreaming HIV/AIDS
• National/International advocacy
Currently three main NGO partners are working on HIV prevention and mainstreaming projects. Act Central Asia intends to continue
developing its HIV programme in the country.
Accountable Governance/Advocacy
Act Central Asia partners work on PRSP monitoring as well as civil society strengthening through Self-Help Groups and Mahalla
Committees, networking, rights of most vulnerable groups; such as children’s rights; rights of elderly; women (women-headed families), etc.
The strategy developed on advocacy is related to work on children rights in the country. this mainly includes writing of shadow reports on the
Child Rights' Convention.
Сapacity development
Act Central Asia is actively working on Capacity Building of its partners both on organizational and programmatic development. This
programme is running since 2004 and is expected to be reviewed and strategized during this year and beyond. the Capacity Building program
includes such activities as: exposure and exchange visits; trainings and workshops support based on needs assessment and expected agenda;
networking cooperation strengthening; organizational assessment; etc
Secure Livelihoods
Act Central Asia is running and on the way to develop the Secure Livelihoods programme in Central Asia. Secure Livelihoods it is one of key
corporate priorities for the agency and there are vast numbers of partners of Act Central Asia are grouped under this theme, especially in the
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