DUSHANBE, September 3, Asia-Plus — A two-day seminar on issues related to elaborating a system of monitoring a progress of realization of the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) in Tajikistan opened at the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade (MoEDT) in Dushanbe today.
The seminar has brought together representatives from Tajik ministries, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Mission to Tajikistan, UNDP CO in Tajikistan, etc.
The seminar has been staged by the ADB as part of a joint project run by the ADB and MoEDT.
According to the MoEDT press service, the main objective of the seminar is to involve all interested parties in work on creation of a system of monitoring a progress of realization of the PRS in Tajikistan. The seminar aims to make specialists from Tajik ministries and organization familiar with projects being implemented within the framework of the PRS as well as experience of other countries in alleviating poverty, the press service said.
The seminar is expected to end with preparing a list of indices of the monitoring system, concerted format of reports as well as consensus on the monitoring regulations.
