Publications
UNICEF in Tajikistan Mountainous Tajkistan’s striking physical beauty arouses rapture--and an old lament, ‘you can’t eat the scenery.’ Every year around a third of Tajikistan’s working-age adults turn from the foothills and valleys to seek work elsewhere, leaving the already thinly-populated country even emptier-except of children. Children make up around half of Tajikistan’s 6.6m population-a cause for optimism and also for deep concern, since their resources don’t yet match their fast-rising numbers. Child mortality is still high and many children are malnourished. Children struggle to learn in schools without electricity or modern books. Low pay and poor standards are pushing teachers out of the education system and children, especially girls, are going the same way in an alarming rise in school drop-outs. Thousands of children-many of whom are not orphans-live in institutions. Download English version (PDF), 12 pages with pictures __________________________________
Comparative analysis of MICS The State of Children and Women in Tajikistan presents an evidence-based comparative analysis of the results of several surveys in the country during the last decade. A special focus of this study is the comparison of Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey results from 2000 and 2005. MICS surveys, conducted periodically, provide precious data on socoeconomic determinants, children’s living conditions and their overall well-being. These data enable evaluation of policies and programmes in the period between the two surveys, as well as identify priorityissues and the effectiveness of implementation of measures to improve children’s lives. They also serve to monitorthe status of children and women and the development of policies and development strategies. Download English version (PDF), 54 pages with pictures ___________________________________
"Tajikistan" Download this document (pdf), 46 pages with pictures __________________________________
"Children's Voices" Download this document (pdf), 80 pages with pictures __________________________________
"Child Poverty" This report presents empirical analysis of the Tajikistan Living Standards Survey 2003 and the UNICEF Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2005 in Tajikistan to assess the living conditions and well-being of children in Tajikistan. The report takes the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) as the framework for conceptualising child poverty. The CRC sets out the basic human rights that children everywhere have: the right to survival; to develop to the fullest; to protection from harmful influences, abuse and exploitation; and to participate fully in family, cultural and social life. Child well-being can be thought as the realisation of these rights, whilst child deprivation, or child poverty, results from the denial of these rights. Download this document (pdf), 120 pages with pictures
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