In the remote mountainous villages of northern Tajikistan, clean water can be hard to come by. In the sub-district of Khistevarz, which is home to more than 60,000 people, securing clean water is an expensive business that has taken its toll on people’s health and on their relationships with regional neighbours. However, with funding from…
The EU Civil Society Forum is a platform for dialogue involving representatives of civil society, media and experts from the region and the EU to discuss the implementation of the EU Central Asia Strategy, adopted in 2019. The Forum brought together around 70 participants in person, while 300 participants joined online, representing grassroots civil society, the…
The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) is at the forefront of the COVID-19 response in Asia and Africa and is working to provide urgent humanitarian assistance, slow the virus’s spread, care for the infected, and respond to the broad consequences of the virus. As countries…