The main areas of interventions by UNESCO:
- EFA coordination, planning, monitoring and assessment;
- ECCE;
- Primary education;
- Girls’ education;
- Secondary education and technical and vocational education and training (TVET);
- Higher Education and information and communication technologies (ICT);
- Education for sustainable development (ESD);
- Teacher Education;
- Human rights education;
- HIV and AIDS preventive education.
UNESCO Education Sector’s priority is to support Tajikistan to achieve quality Education for All, a collective commitment made at the World Education Forum (Dakar, 2000). Education contributes directly and indirectly to sustainable development: although two of the MDGs are specific to education, education contributes to the achievement of all eight MDGs. As the lead coordinating agency for EFA and a defender of the right to education, UNESCO promotes a consistent, coordinated and coherent support of the international community to country efforts toward the achievement of the EFA goals.
While maintaining the holistic, rights-based approach to education, UNESCO gives particular emphasis on the following programmatic areas with a strong track record:
- Educational planning and administration;
- Monitoring and assessment in education;
- Teacher education;
- Literacy as lifelong learning;
- HIV/AIDS education.
Major development partners active in education and broad areas of intervention:
Asian Development Bank (ADB):
- Supports the Government’s reform priorities in primary (grades 1–4) and general secondary education (grades 5–11);
- Assists the Government in reviewing and updating national sector policies, and analyze sector needs and action plans.
Fast Track Initiative – Catalytic Fund (FTI-CF):
- Improving the quality and access to general education through improving the management system, upgrading the personnel capacity, improving the quality of learning materials and their supply, and improving school infrastructure.
The World Bank (WB):
- Under the Third Fast Track Initiative Catalytic Fund Grant, contributes to increased access to improved learning environments, completion through grades and efficient delivery of quality education services.
United States Agency for International Development (USAID):
- Supports basic education development and management.
European Commission (EC):
- Supports vocational education and skills development.
German Technical Cooperation (GTZ):
- Supports basic education reform.
United Nations Children’s Education Fund (UNICEF):
- Supports the improvement of quality of basic education.
World Food Programme (WFP):
- Supports schooling by supplying meals.
Institute for International Cooperation of the German Adult Education Association (DVV International):
- Promotes adult education and life-long learning.
Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN):
- Supports general secondary and higher education to improve education quality, as well as providing scholarships.
Open Society Institute (OSI):
- Provision of scholarships, Step-by-Step programme and supporting secondary education development.
