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Ms. Hongwei Gao, Country Representative and Ms. Jobirova, Deputy Health Minister of Tajikistan opening Technical Review Meeting

Government of Tajikistan and UNICEF Programme of Cooperation, 2005-2009
Combined Annual Technical Review and Planning 2009

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

UNICEF Combined Annual Programme Review and Planning Meeting with Government which discussed on the country's various health issues conducted in Dushanbe today December 3. The APRM provides a forum to review the previous year’s Results and together with Government endorse the key areas and targets for health programme intervention in 2009. The meeting was chaired by the Deputy Minister of Health Ms. Jobirova.

Senior Health Officials, representatives from the Ministry of Health, Project Managers and Coordinators, representatives of CSOs, UN agencies and NGOs participated in the meeting.

In her statement Deputy Minister of Health, Ms. Jobirova said that, the ministry performance on mothers and children health care programs, HIV/AIDS are encouraging. Promising results have been achieved in working together with partners to attain the strategies and goals of the ministry. She stressed that the yearly meeting to discuss and evaluate the achievement, plan and challenges of the country's health sector development program have paramount importance to achieve the millennium development goals.
The Deputy Minister also stated that it was with a high sense of expectation due to their confidence in UNICEF as a trusted partner, that the Government embraced the current programme cycle with UNICEF which as we all know is based on relevant programmatic framework documents notably, "the Country Programme Document (or the CPD)", the Country Programme Action Plan (or simply called the CPAP) and the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (the UNDAF).

Signed in 2004, "the CPAP has become the reference for joint programming by UNICEF and the Government of Tajikistan covering a 5- year cycle from 2005-2009. The CPAP reflects the priorities of Tajikistan, which hinge around poverty reduction and the achievement of MDGs as well as the deepening of human rights and good governance. The implementation period of the CPAP is also consistent with that of the Country’s PRSP dovetailing all the critical areas addressed in the CPAP.

For her part, the UNICEF Representative for Tajikistan Ms. Hongwei Gao said that 2008 was indeed a very challenging year but was happy to note that UNICEF has been able to surmount these challenges and took significant steps that allowed us to provide support to key national development priorities. Most importantly UNICEF has held key consultations and policy dialogues with relevant stakeholders.
Amongst the most noteworthy achievements Mr. Shamsiddin Kurbanov, Chief of Mother and Child Department in the Ministry of Health mentioned the assistance provided to the Health Ministry to strengthen the capacity of health workers and support on delivering key interventions at the community level.
He further highlighted that substantial amount of funds and assistance were mobilized from UNICEF to support the country during last year winter emergency.
On the way forward recommendations were made from which an action plan will be derived. The meeting agreed on: the 2009 implementation strategy focusing on key outputs, the 2009 programme priorities as well targets and priorities for the new Country Programme cycle.
Today’s meeting will be followed with similar sectoral meetings on education and child protection.

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