Afghanistan/Tadjikistan

As in pre­vi­ous years, there has been no direct bilat­er­al coop­er­a­tion with Tajik­istan or Afghanistan. In these two coun­tries, Luxembourg’s Devel­op­ment Coop­er­a­tion is pur­su­ing its projects in close col­lab­o­ra­tion with the PATRIP foun­da­tion (Pak­istan Afghanistan Tajik­istan Region­al Inte­gra­tion Pro­gramme). The projects financed by Lux­em­bourg through the foun­da­tion and imple­ment­ed by the Dan­ish NGO Mis­sion East focus prin­ci­pal­ly on water, san­i­ta­tion and hygiene. In addi­tion, the NGO is invest­ing more in efforts to reduce risk, in order to strength­en the sus­tain­abil­i­ty of these projects, in close col­lab­o­ra­tion, in par­tic­u­lar, with vil­lage com­mu­ni­ties (e.g. plan­ta­tions of shrubs and trees).

In 2019, Luxembourg’s Devel­op­ment Cooperation’s finan­cial con­tri­bu­tion amount­ed to about EUR920,000, mak­ing it pos­si­ble to sup­ply run­ning water and to install san­i­ta­tion in 28 moun­tain vil­lages, 18 on the Afghan side and 10 on the Tajik side. In addi­tion, 627 latrines, some of which are acces­si­ble by per­sons with reduced mobil­i­ty, and 14 dry latrines were built in these vil­lages. Hygiene train­ing cours­es were deliv­ered by the Mis­sion East NGO to address the dan­gers of water-borne dis­eases. In addi­tion, in most of the vil­lages projects were imple­ment­ed to sta­bilise the soil and pro­tect infra­struc­ture in order to cope bet­ter with the nat­ur­al dis­as­ters often seen in the region. The Mis­sion East projects are found­ed upon sus­tain­abil­i­ty. The vil­lages that have ben­e­fit­ed from the infra­struc­ture installed are all joint­ly respon­si­ble for their main­te­nance and smooth operation.