Tajikistan National Platform

History

Creation of the national platform for DRR of Tajikistan for 2010-2015 was included in the action plan for the implementation of the DRR national strategy and was approved by the Government of Tajikistan on 10 March 2010 under No. 164. 

Taking into account the need to systematically reduce the impact of natural disasters on the livelihoods of the population residing in Tajikistan, as well as realizing that DRR is a multilateral and complex issue constraining sustainable development of Tajikistan, in 2012, the Government of Tajikistan established the national platform for DRR. The national platform is established under the State Committee for Emergency Situations. 

The national platform for DRR aims at creating the mechanisms to ensure political and legal commitment towards disaster risk management and reduction, as well as understanding and strengthening the scientific knowledge of disaster risk governance and reduction principles by the public and government authorities. Moreover, it also aims to mainstream DRR issues into the operations of the State, private sector, international investment and grant projects. 

The national platform for DRR comprises government authorities, ministries and agencies, local and international NGOs, private sector and civil society.

Structure

Leadership:

• Chairman: Deputy Prime Minister of Republic of Tajikistan, responsible for emergencies
• First Deputy: Chairman of the Committee of Emergency Situation and Civil Defense
• Deputy: Head of Department of Ecology & Emergency Situations of Executive Apparatus of President’s Office
• Executive Secretary: Head of the Department of the Committee of Emergency Situation and Civil Defense

Members of the National Platform:

• Deputy Minister from:
  • Ministry of Justice
  • Ministry of Agriculture
  • Ministry of Education and Science
  • Ministry of Energy and Water Resources
  • Ministry of Finance
  • Ministry of Transport
  • Ministry of Health and Social Protection
  • Ministry of Industry and New Technologies
• The Deputy Chair of:
  • State Committee of Land Management and Geodesy
  • State Committee of Investments and State Property Management
  • State Committee for Environmental Protection
  • State Television and Radio Committee
• Deputy Director of the Agency for Land Reclamation and Irrigation
• Deputy Head of the Department for Geology
• Vice-President of the Academy of Sciences
• Director of the Institute of Geology, Seismological Construction and Seismology of the Academy of Sciences
• Deputy of General Secretary of the Red Crescent Society of Tajikistan 

Observers: 

• The World Bank
• REACT
• United Nations organizations:
  • UNDP
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
  • UNDRR
  • UNICEF
  • UNESCO
  • International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
• International and other NGOs: Coordinators of projects and organizations working in disaster risk management, poverty reduction and economic development

Mandate

The main objectives of the national platform are: 

• Developing proposals and recommendations for formulation and implementation of the unified State policy on DRR and human-induced disasters, as well as human and socioeconomic losses
• Coordination, analysis and advice on priority areas of DRR, requiring concerted action at the national level
• Ensuring progress towards the goals of DRR and monitoring
• Engage different sectors of society in the discussion of activities in the field of DRR
• Coordinating the establishment and functioning of the thematic working groups, considering the knowledge, experience and opinions of all relevant stakeholders
• Monitoring the implementation of recommendations as well as other documents and decisions in the field of DRR by organizations, programmes and projects
• Cooperation with regional and international donor agencies as well as specialized organizations in the field of DRR
• Transfer knowledge from the international experience in the field of DRR, emphasizing coordination and cooperation of relevant line ministries and departments within the obligations of Tajikistan under relevant treaties and agreements
• Advocacy campaign of DRR at the different levels 

The national platform is mandated to: 

• Submit proposals for projects of normative legal acts on issues of DRR in the manner prescribed by the State Committee for Emergency Situations and, if necessary, the Government
• Establishment of thematic expert groups within the framework of the national platform (for example, a scientific/technical group, among others)