Tajikistan 

Dushanbe CSSC/The Third Sector 

Activity Overview 

In April the CSSC Board of Directors met to reconsider the staff of the Board and designate Elena 

Chastukhina (Acting Director) Director of the organization. 

Agreements have been signed between CSSC and Counterpart for an extension of the institutional 

grant and implementation of health program. 

Contracts for extension period have been signed with the CSSC staff 

CSSC has provided a cycle of training for the beneficiaries of the project  Women Empowerment 

and Socio Economic Development . Some modules have been translated into Tajik. 

In May the DCSSC's main focus was the preparation pf the social partnership conference with the 

Mayor of Dushanbe 

Within the framework of the Volunteer Development joint project with NRC some trainings have 

been conducted for groups of volunteers 

The conference on the topic Community empowerment network has been conducted in the 

framework of CEN project. The goal of the conference was the discussion of community 

problems, challenges, needs and developing recommendations for organizations dealing with 

CDD. 

48 proposals have been considered and recommended for Health grant program. 

Video film devoted to Social Partnership has been prepared and presented by DCSSC in the 

network meeting in June 

Internal Capacity Building 

The DCSSC has developed the price list of fee for services. 

Director has met with IOs (IREX, NDI, and OSCE) to discuss the prospects fro cooperation. 

Community Outreach 

The DCSSC has developed questionnaires for closing evaluation on NGO Support Grant and 

CAGs. The questionnaires allow tracking the fulfillment of the project objectives, the degree of 

participation of different components in the project implementation, to track the sustainability of 

the project.  

The DCSSC staff has conducted 9 close out evaluation of completed projects. Recently all of the 

staff is trained to conduct M&E and make reporting. 

Evaluation of project results has acknowledged that social partnership on the community level 

gives tangible results. Local governmental officials participate actively on all stages of 

community projects and make a weighable contribution. 

Summarizing the results of project evaluation, special newsletter, covering Community Outreach 

project impacts has been issued by DCSSC. 

The results of 4 projects (site visits) have been introduced to Arlene Lear Harry Dorcus from CI, 

Washington. 

In Tursunzoda district, Local Khukumat a new department responsible for coordination of work 

with IOs has been established as the result of Social Partnership Conference held in February in 

Tursunzoda. 

The Social Partnership Conference with the mayor of Dushanbe was held in May 27. 530 

participants from different sectors of the society participated in the conference. As the result of 

the conference Coordination Committee has been established, including Mayor, other key 

governmental officials, donor organizations, NGOs and Mass Media. 

One of the follow up activities after SP conference in Dushanbe was a roundtable discussion on 

the topic of partnership initiatives with participation of NGOs, IOs, responsible authorities and 

Chairman of local Khukumat of Zheleznodorozhnyi District of Dushanbe city.  It's been decided 

to organize meetings on the regular meetings. 

4 new volunteers have passed probation period. They`ve been introduced with volunteers policies 

and job descriptions. 

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