A three-day international autumn handicraft fair will kick off at Ismaili Center Dushanbe on October 13.
Organized by the Union of Tajik Craftspeople under support of the Dushanbe Administration and the Agency for Tourism Development under the Government of Tajikistan, this year’s fair is dedicated to the fifth anniversary of the Union.
More than 100 craftspeople from all regions of Tajikistan as well as craftspeople from Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan will put on display their works at the fair that will run through October 15.
The fair is being held in the framework of the Networking Intermediaries & Competitive Enterprises in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan Project (NICE-TAK).
The project was launched in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan in May in the ranks of the European Union program Central Asia Invest IV. The project is the continuation of the projects “Handicraft and Business through Regional Integration and Fair Trade Market” and “Tajik Women Economic Empowerment” that have been successfully implemented in the previous years.
NICE-TAK overall objective is to promote private sector development in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, and to facilitate the GDP of the two countries to substantially increase from 2016 to 2019.
NICE-TAK pursues this aim by means of assisting local Business Intermediary Organizations to develop their capacities of supporting the development of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in three key areas: advocacy, developing needed services for SMEs and competitiveness on domestic and international markets. NICE-TAK targets any Business Intermediary Organization in the two countries that have a high potential for reaching out to SMEs, but a special attention is focused on competitiveness of the Handicraft sector.
NICE-TAK project is implemented by an international consortium including International NGO CESVI (Italy) in Tajikistan, National Association of Small and Medium Business of Tajikistan (NASMB), Bishkek Business Club (BBC), National Association of Business Women of Tajikistan (NABWT), Union of Craftsmen of Tajikistan (UCT); the consortium is led by Sequa GgmbH (Germany).
