Eng - UNDP in Tajikistan

DEVELOPMENT PARTNER PROFILE
Bilateral
Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany
Contact: Mr. Rainer Müller
Ambassador
Tel: 221-21-89, 221-21-98 Fax: 224-03-90
E-mail: info@dusc.diplo.de
Website: www.duschanbe.diplo.de
Organization Profile
Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Tajikistan.
Ambassador: Rainer Müller
Note: The Embassy represents the Federal Republic of Germany as a donor.
The funds mentioned below are administrated and distributed to the executing agencies (usually GTZ for technical and KfW for financial
assistance, but also DED, GAA and other NGOs) by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation in Bonn, Germany.
Past and Current Programmes
Since 1993 has been providing both technical and financial assistance, primarily in the form of emergency assistance. Since the end of the civil war,
Germany and Tajikistan have been moving toward medium and long term economic cooperation. Every year bilateral intergovernmental negotiations
take place to define larger projects of technical and financial assistance. The next negotiations will take place in Bonn in autumn 2008. The focus
areas of bilateral economic assistance are economic reform and building market economy as well as primary education and health system.
Current Bilateral Projects:
• Credit lines to the First Microfinance Bank of Tajikistan (Financial Cooperation)
• Local Infrastructure and Primary Education I and II (FC)
• Consulting of Small and Medium Enterprises (Technical Cooperation)
• Support of Microfinance Services in Rural Areas (TC)
• Reform of Secondary Education (TC)
• Focus Program Health (FC)
• Fight against Tuberculosis I and II(FC)
• Rehabilitation of hydropower station Nurek (FC)
• Study and Expert Fund I and II (FC)
• Study and Expert Fund (TC)
• Teacher Training and School Rehabilitation (TC)
• Local Disaster Preparedness in Zeravshan Valley (TC)
Regional Projects in Central Asia with a Tajik component:
• Fight against Tuberculosis in Central Asia (FC)
• Developing Health System (TC in preparation)
• Subregional program for the implementation of the Convention on Combat of Desertification (CCD) (TC)
• Support of Legal Reforms in Central Asia (TZ)
• Regional Economic Cooperation in Central Asia (TC)
• Agricultural Education Central Asia
• Foundation for Economic Development and Professional Education (SEQUA)
Participation in multilateral projects:
• Technical Assistance for CIS (TACIS)
Note: Germany is a major contributor to the budgets of international finance institutions and is by extension a donor within the framework of
the financial support given to Tajikistan from these institutions (World Bank, ADB, EU, UNDP, etc.).
Future Programming Direction
Focus points: economic reform and building market economy, primary education, health system
Source: Aid Coordination and Project Monitoring System Database
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