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WFP Tajikistan Country Brief, January 2025

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In Numbers

848.2 mt of food distributed

US$35,654 cash-based transfers made

US$4.36 million six month net funding requirements (February-July 2025)

417,689 people were assisted

Operational Updates

• Within the framework of the National InterMinisterial Coordination Council (IMCC), representatives from WFP and the relevant ministries and departments discussed the implementation of the State Programme on Development of School Feeding in Tajikistan for the period of 2022-2027 and achievements for 2024 as well as plans for 2025. WFP implements a school feeding programme in Tajikistan, supported by the Russian Federation.

• Reinforcing its efforts towards improved nutrition through food fortification, WFP provided the Agency for Standardization, Metrology, Certification, and Trade Inspection of Tajikistan with laboratory supplies to enable regulatory laboratories to conduct quality control and quality assurance of fortified wheat flour. WFP purchased three micro feeders for state-owned mills under the State Reserves Agency of Tajikistan. These will be installed in state-owned mills in Kulob, Levakant towns, and Shughnon District, as per agreement between WFP and the State Reserves Agency of Tajikistan.

• An abstract on "Media-Based Social Behaviour Change Communication Interventions to Promote Nutrition Outcomes", implemented by WFP, will be presented at the Behaviour Change Conference 2025, to be organized by University College London. WFP will develop a poster and will publish the study through the conference’s platforms. The conference is scheduled for 2–3April in Lisbon, Portugal.