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In a remote and isolated region of Tajikistan, USAID’s Peaceful Communities Initiative Project (PCI) helped end a decades-long dispute over water between two communities in Jamoat Hurmi in Panjakent District. The project, implemented by Mercy Corps, rehabilitated a water pump, which has not worked in the 15 years since Tajikistan’s independence.

Currently in Tajikistan there are eight lessors operating in the market since 2005. Among them is Nakhust-Leasing.
Nakhust-Leasing is the first leasing company established in Tajikistan. It is one of four beneficiaries of IFC ’s leasing advisory program in Tajikistan.

In Tajikistan, the first of September brings joy to schoolchildren every year. It marks the beginning of the academic year: a new year of sports, making friends, homework and learning new things. Unfortunately, many girls are left out and will not have the chance to go to school.

Sitora, 25, has told no one of her condition. She is a healthcare worker who acquired the infection in her twenties – possibly from a needle stick injury. Her father knows that she is working with an NGO dedicated to working with those affected.

The Sharipov family live in Oltovul village (Kulyab District) in Tajikistan. 35-year old Abduholok works in a collective farm as a seasonal labourer, where he can earn 1 diram (€0.05) per kilogramme of cotton collected. Sometimes he also works on the markets in Dushanbe or Kurgan-Tjube as a porter. His wife, 32 year old Nizora, brings up their four children. At harvest time, Nizora also works in the fields collecting cotton.

When Mauluola Shukurova left school and found work, she thought she was settled for life. Back in the 1980s, things didn’t get much more secure than a job with the KGB.
But Mauluola got it wrong. Her job in Tajikistan’s second city, Kurgan-Tyube, vanished along with the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, as Tajikistan lurched into a civil war that had claimed up to 100,000 lives by the time it finally wound up in 1997. With her family scratching for work and a small daughter to feed, the former secret policewoman had to start developing business skills to survive.