10:51, 15 июля, 2020
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has launched Cash for Work projects to support 15,000 vulnerable people in eastern Tajikistan who have been affected by the socio-economic shocks caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to the WFP Country Office in Tajikistan, the projects will provide 3,000 participants and their families with cash assistance for three months in exchange for their work on rehabilitating or constructing community assets such as irrigation canals, drinking water supply systems and forestry areas in the targeted communities.
“While these projects will help families meet their basic food needs, they will also stimulate the market through an injection of cash and build long-term assets that will benefit entire communities and not only the people we serve,” says WFP Representative and Country Director in Tajikistan Alberto Correia Mendes.
The projects are implemented in partnership with the local authorities of the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO), the Agha Khan Agency for Habitat (AKAH), Mountain Societies Development Support Programme (MSDSP), and local public organization “Imdodi Dehot.”
