DUSHANBE, June 19, 2009, Asia-Plus — In the framework of the European Commission project “Support to the Capacity Development Public Finance Management Project”, Mrs. Charlotte Adriaen, Chargé d”Affaires of the Delegation of the European Commission in Tajikistan, handed over equipment, including 139 computers and printers, software and networking equipment, valued at € 150 000 to the Ministry of Finance on June 18, press release issued by the Delegation of the European Commission in Tajikistan in Tajikistan said.
Eighty percent of the health and education related expenditure (26 percent of the State Budget) is done by the local government. Carrying the heavy burden of collecting data and transferring to the Central Treasury, local Treasury offices lacked the required equipment to properly fulfill their mandate. EU funded project contributes to the modernization of the Treasury System in Tajikistan and the with new equipment the local treasury offices of the Republic of Tajikistan (73 districts, cities and oblasts) will be enabled to report on a daily basis to the Central Treasury on local budget execution and republican budget expenditure done at the local level.
This project will also contribute to improve the predictability and the control in budget execution as well as enhancing the recording and reporting system to meet decision-making control, management and reporting objectives.
The new EU Strategy for Central Asia aims to strengthen ties between the European Union and its Central Asian partners. It has doubled European Commission assistance to the region to €750 million for 2007-2013. Tajikistan gets the main share of bilateral assistance (€66 million for 2007-2010) in support to sector programs, technical assistance and grants. It focuses on social protection, health and private sector development, underpinned by public finance management. Projects aimed at enhancing living standards continue. Tajikistan also receives regional and thematic assistance in areas like border management and drug control (BOMCA/CADAP), education (TEMPUS, Erasmus Mundus), water/environment, migration, human rights and democracy (EIDHR), non-State actors (NSA) and SME development (CA-Invest). The total value of EC assistance disbursed to Tajikistan since 1992 is over €500 million.
