Eng - UNDP in Tajikistan

DEVELOPMENT PARTNER PROFILE
NGO
Mission East in Tajikistan
Contact: Ms. Marydean Purves
Country Director
Tel: 224-09-41, 221-08-41, 224-28-08 Fax: 224-28-08
Email: miseast@miseast.tojikiston.com
Website: www.miseast.org
Organization Profile
Mission East is a Danish international relief and development organisation, which works to help the vulnerable through
- humanitarian relief aid
- development assistance
- support to increasing capacity of communities to organise and assist themselves.
Our ‘Values in Action’ are: honesty, integrity, compassion, valuing the individual, respect for all people.
Mission East works in response to community needs, primarily in the areas of public health, livelihoods improvement and food security.
As well as direct implementation, Mission East seeks to enhance the relevance, impact and sustainability of its programmes by co-operation
with local and international partners.
Mission East was founded in 1991 by Rene Hartzner, a Danish businessman in an international company, and his son, medical doctor Kim
Hartzner.In January 1994 the first major emergency aid transport took place. Sponsored by ECHO (the European Community Humanitarian
Office) food was distributed in war-stricken Armenia with the aid of volunteers from many countries. Mission East Tajikistan opened in 1997,
providing humanitarian assistance in the aftermath of the civil war.
Past and Current Programmes
Mission East has worked in Tajikistan since 1997 with food security and watsan activities in eastern Khatlon. Over the past 3 years, the focus
of work has moved into a longer-term integrated approach towards improved livelihoods. Mission East began to implement its first
DIPECHO funded project in September 2005 with ECHO/DIP/BUD/2005/01009 ‘Reduction of Flood Impact on Vulnerable Groups on the
Yokhsu River Valley’. This project addressed the annual flooding that affected some of the communities Mission East was working with
within its livelihoods programme.
In February 2006, Mission East, in partnership with Shelter for Life, began implementation of its second DIPECHO funded project,
ECHO/DIP/BUD/2005/01015 ‘Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction with Improved Materials and Earthquake Safer Construction
Practises. This project is implemented in an area that Mission East has identified as a future target area for its livelihoods programme, and
partnership with Shelter for Life and its partner NGOs in this project allowed Mission East to further its strategy of strengthening local civil
society.
Common to all Mission East projects is the aim of using a community participatory approach wherever possible. Brief summaries of other
EC-supported projects over the last several years in Tajikistan are given below:
ECHO/TJK/210/2003/01012 2003-2004. Food Security Improvement in Eastern Khatlon 2003/4. Food and agricultural input distribution to
57,000 people in five districts
ECHO/TAJ/210/2003/01008 2003-2004. Rehabilitation of Drinking Water Supplies with Sanitation and Health Education in Shurobad
District, Tajikistan. Approximately 7000 direct beneficiaries in seven target villages benefited from rehabilitated water and sanitation
systems. Shurobad Health Services conducted hygiene education campaigns in villages and village schools
EuropeAid (FOOD/2003/077-420) Integrated Food Security in Eastern Khatlon 2003-2006
EuropeAid Food Security 105-258 Long-Term Food Security Through Community-Directed Development 2005-2007
The DIPECHO portfolio was reviewed in Feb. 2007 with 2 new grants through April 2008.
Future Programming Direction
C.1 Land Management: Policy and Practice. This can encompass water rights and use for irrigation. The can encompass innovations in
ag technology for more efficient/ecological use of newly obtained land.
C.2 Small Scale Economic Development: Concentration on trade and innovative technologies, social enterprises such as latrine slab
making industries, farm implements; turn our attention to marketing and market development.
C.3 Disaster Risk Reduction and Preparedness: accent on integrated Disaster Risk Reduction and Preparedness, linking actions to
sustainable livelihood improvement.
Source: Aid Coordination and Project Monitoring System Database
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