Planning and implementation of Tajikistan

Victim Assistance Programme

Reykhan MUMINOVA, Tajikistan Mine Action Center, VA Officer

Central Asia Regional VA Workshop24-26 May 2011

VA Programme planning process

• The Strategic Mine Action Plan 2004-2008• 6 MSP to the APMBC in Zagreb (2005)

Tajikistan objectives for the period 2005-2009 • First National VA Workshop - VA Plan of Action

2006-2009 (approved on 27 July 2006 by the CIIHL)

• PoA contained 19 objectives

Second National VA Workshop (April 2008)

Revised VA Plan of Actions - contained 21 objectives

Tajikistan’s new Mine Action Strategic Plan 2010-2015 (MASP)

The goal of VA is: All mine victims, boys and girls, men and women, have equal and proper access to adequate medical and physical rehabilitation

and psychosocial support as well as to socio-economic and legal assistance.

Five specific objectives for VA which aim to:1. reinforce the capacity of national organizations and institutions; 2. organize summer camps to provide psychosocial support to victims; 3. provide income generation and socio-economic support; 4. establish a reliable and systematic victim information system; 5. and, advocate in favour of Tajikistan ratification of the Convention on

the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM).

Annual Work Plans 2010 and 2011 VA is addressed under

Activity 3 : Mine victims have proper access to adequate medical, rehabilitation and psycho-social support as well as to socio-economic assistance.

AWP 2011• Provide psycho-social support to 25 survivors

during summer camp rehabilitation activities• Organizing Second inter-country psycho-social

conference • Conducting needs assessment re-survey• Support to the capacity building efforts of NGOs

representing mine victims & PWDs; • Organize an advocacy campaign in favor of

Tajikistan acceptance of the CRPD & CCM• Socio-economic reintegration of mine victims

Review of VA Programme by ISU(August 2010)

•AWPs are adequate •AWPs are discussed and agreed among the key partners in implementation •The activities of the VA programme have been consistent with the objectives of the 2006 and revised 2008 VA plan and MASP•The activities have been guided by the outcomes of the needs assessment survey •The activities assigned to TMAC to achieve specific objectives of the VA Plan of Action have either been fully or partly achieved•good progress is being made on implementing activities of the 2010 work plan.

VA component budget per year

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 20110

20000

40000

60000

80000

100000

120000

140000

160000

180000

50195

23735

14420

73788

160215

52567

98414

USD

Recommendations of Review of VA Programme for future activities

•coordination,•data collection, •planning, •monitoring and reporting,•capacity building, •accessibility, •awareness-raising, •resource mobilization, •inclusive development, •and regional and bilateral cooperation

Inter-agency Victim Assistance coordination group

VA Key partners:• Ministry of Labour and social protection of population,• Ministry of Health,• MSSS, • NRIRDP, • NOC, • Psychology Department of the National University, • District departments of social protection• International agencies and NGOs, • UNDP, WHO, ICRC, AAR, AKF, • National agencies, NGOs and DPOs, RCST, Harmony in the World,

Survivors, their families, and communities.

Inter-ministerial coordination and collaboration

• Through regular meetings of VA Coordination group

• Law on Social Protection of Disabled Persons (December 2010) foresees establishment of disability coordination council (Article 4)

• VA PoA, MASP was developed in coordination and consultations with inter-agency coordination group

• Needs Assessment Survey

Needs Assessment Survey (March 2008)

Two questionnaires i.e.IMSMA and Needs Assesment (we began to use this document since 2006)

Two team of experts (TMAC, Ministry of Health and Ministry of Labour & Social Protection)

Surveyed all mine-affected districts

Inter-ministerial coordination and collaboration

• Training course on "Rehabilitation of Patients with Traumatic Amputation of the Limbs" in Dushanbe

• Information letter “On improving referral system of amputees to the

• Orthopaedic Centre by Primary Health Care workers” which was accepted by MoH.

• TMAC published a “Guideline on psycho-social support for landmine survivors”

• “Borderline mental disorders and quality of life of landmine survivors”

• TMAC published a “Medical and Social Diagnostic Guideline” for staff of the MSSS.

2005 - 32 survivors 2006 –19 survivors

2007 –25 survivors

2008 –34 survivors

2009 – 25 survivors

2010 – 25 survivors

Summer Rehabilitation Camp

Totally - 160

Income generation projects

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 20100

20

40

60

80

100

120

0

1117

56

113

24

Thank you for attention!