About the Project
The draft National Water Strategy highlighted several pressing challenges that needed to be taken into account when developing water sector in Tajikistan. In the field of water quality monitoring the main challenges related, among others, to the insufficient quality and reliability of produced data. In meeting the need for higher-quality data the laboratories had and have a crucial role. The quality management processes initiated during the previous Tajik Water quality project needed to be both deepened and widened in order to enhance the quality of the monitoring results. In addition, the water quality monitoring networks required attention, as they were generally poorly equipped.
The Committee of Environmental Protection, CEP (tajnature.tj) under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan is the central executive authority of the Republic of Tajikistan on environmental protection and thus was the core ICI partner in this project. The two key beneficiary laboratories, the Analytical Laboratory which is the Centre for Analytical Control of the CEP, and the Surface Water Laboratory of the State Agency for Hydrometeorology are part of the governance structure of the CEP.
Results
OUTPUT 1. Beneficiary organisations produced and distributed more reliable surface water monitoring data on selected parameters according to ISO 17025
OUTPUT 2. Beneficiary organizations applied new management practices and collaborate actively between each other
OUTPUT 3. Beneficiary organizations provided more comprehensive surface water quality data input and access to the data for end-users and other core stakeholders
OUTPUT 4. Beneficiary organizations provided as well as facilitated understanding of improved surface water quality information and its significance to stakeholders and the general public
Presentations
Tajik Water quality II project presentation (2021) (pdf, 1.68 MB) Basic environmental monitoring in Finland (2022) (pdf, 2.07 MB) Hydrobiological methods in Finland (2022) (pdf, 1.79 MB) Activities of Tajik CEP presentation (2022) in Russian (pdf, 2.83 MB) Communication activities of Aarhus Center Dushanbe (2022) in Russian (pdf, 2.72 MB) Transboundary water monitoring in Finland (2022) (pdf, 2.07 MB)News
- On the International Water Quality Monitoring Day (September 18) information about the achievements of the project was published on the webpages of Dushanbe Aarhus Center of the Committee for Environmental Protection under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan.
- The final seminar of the project in June 2025 was an interesting day, where stakeholder in the region came together to discuss different aspects of monitoring of surface waters in Tajikistan! The occasion was notified also by the National Information Agency of Tajikistan (Khovar.tj)
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- An interactive seminar on the topic "The role of the media in covering environmental issues" was held in Dushanbe in June 2024. Attendees were representatives of government and independent media of Tajikistan, employees of the Aarhus centers of the cities of Dushanbe, Khorog and Bokhtar, members of the club of eco-journalists and eco-volunteers of the Committee for Environmental Protection (CEP), as well as responsible persons of the CEP for covering environmental information. The participants learned about ecological information exchange in Tajikistan as well as communication strategy and means of presenting water information in Finland. Aarhus Center Dusanbe published this news on their webpages--СЕМИНАР ДЛЯ ПРЕДСТАВИТЕЛЕЙ СМИ ТАДЖИКИСТАНА (aarhus.tj)
- During the first expert mission in June 2022 activities were planned with Mr Yakobov, the communication expert of Dushanbe Aarhus- center. The collaboration was recognized on their webpages--Встреча Душанбинского Орхус Центра с Финским институтом окружающей среды (aarhus.tj)