Government of Tajikistan and United Nations discuss Financing Sustainable Development and Green Recovery

The workshop took place against the backdrop of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) this week in Glasgow, recognizing that Tajikistan will need innovative financing modalities to achieve these priorities. Partners exchanged knowledge and information and agreed to establish a network of experts to follow-up on the priorities for SDG financing in Tajikistan.

The workshop also provided an important opportunity for the members of the Financing NDS/SDG working group of the National Development Council under the President of Tajikistan to formulate priorities for the upcoming period and identify new partnerships for the financing agenda.

Ashurboy Solehzoda, First Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade stressed the need to accelerate resource mobilization and joint implementation of the NDS and the SDGs through the creation of an enabling environment for effective partnerships with all relevant actors.

Sezin Sinanoglu, UN Resident Coordinator  highlighted that a wide range of financing options need to be considered to achieve the SDGs - public and private, domestic and international. She noted: “We face a triple planetary crisis- climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution. Without radically changing the way we produce and consume things we are heading towards a precipice. That is why today’s topic is so important- it brings together two interrelated issues: how to promote green recovery and how we can find resources to finance this agenda. We have to act now.”   

The workshop is a part of wider initiatives of the UN in Tajikistan on environment and green development and was organized jointly with the Ministry of Economic Development and by UN Economic and Social  Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) in collaboration with the UN in Tajikistan and a joint initiative on “SDG Financing in Tajikistan”, under implementation by UNICEF, UNDP and UN Women.