5th August 2015
Dushanbe, Tajikistan
ABSTRACT: In the nearly 500 female-led self-help groups established in the frame of the Regional Migration Programme in Tajikistan women and men closely work together. This cooperation is promoted by the 71 male self-help group members in the Sughd Province. The predominance of male emigrants has placed over the last years many Tajik women as […]
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15th September 2014
Dushanbe, Tajikistan
The following is a post by Dr. John Heathershaw, Senior Lecturer in International Relation, University of Exeter. May in Tajikistan is a time when Shepherds move their sheep from lowland fields to higher mountain pastures (ailoo). On the road from Vakhdat to Garm, I witnessed herds of up to 1,500 sheep moving along the road with […]
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4th June 2014
Dushanbe, Tajikistan
The following is a post by Baroness Vivien Stern. I am now back in the UK after my fourth visit to Tajikistan. This was the longest visit I have made – it lasted from 22 to 29 May – and also the hottest. The temperature reached 35 degrees on some of the days. It was also the […]
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25th February 2014
Dushanbe, Tajikistan
The following is a post by Shuhrat Sharipov, Communications Intern I have been working at the embassy for over two months on Communications and Digital Diplomacy. If you have been following UKinTajikistan’s Facebook and Twitter pages, you may have seen that we have been posting a lot about tourism lately. I think the development of […]
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17th January 2014
Dushanbe, Tajikistan
The following is a post by Professor Philip Riddle who is a tourism adviser and former head of VisitScotland. That’s the most common response I got when I told friends and relatives I was coming here as a tourism advisor with UK charity VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas). A good first lesson if your job is […]
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10th January 2014
Dushanbe, Tajikistan
The Following is a post by Robin Ord-Smith, Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Tajikistan. January seems an appropriate time to look back to 2013 and give the Embassy and state of the bilateral relationship an End of Term report. And to look forward to 2014 and make some New Year resolutions as well as some predictions and […]
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5th November 2013
Dushanbe, Tajikistan
The following is a post by Mark Woodham, Former Deputy Head of Mission in Dushanbe. After just over three years here, I am just about to leave Dushanbe and Tajikistan for pastures new. As always when leaving a place that has been home for several years, the departure is one of mixed feelings: on the […]
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12th August 2013
Dushanbe, Tajikistan
The following is a post by Adam Lancashire, VSO Volunteer. Ever since that first induction day with VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas) I knew that volunteering abroad was something I had to do. The stories from returned volunteers and the collected professionalism of what I saw and heard really made it clear to me that this […]
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26th July 2013
Dushanbe, Tajikistan
The following is a post by Joanne Manda, Climate Change and Environment Adviser, DFID Bangladesh. Talking climate change may initially seem daunting (too technical), boring (all that climate science puts me to sleep) or just plain weird (something just for those whose greatest ambition is to hug a tree or save a polar bear!). But I […]
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17th May 2013
Dushanbe, Tajikistan
The following is a post by Alice Harrison, who recently visited Tajikistan with regional Defence Attaché David Harrison May appeared to be a wonderful month to visit the Pamirs for those interested in flowers. Every village passed had banks of shaggy, bearded irises planted in its gardens and along the road. The first of the eremus were […]
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