On 16 October, IOM continued direct assistance to vulnerable migrants in difficult life situation due to COVID-19. IOM in Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan cooperated with the governments to send stranded migrants to home.
For the second time in September, IOM and the Government of Tajikistan jointly facilitated the return home of about 300 Tajik migrants who had been stranded at the Kazakhstan/Uzbekistan border.
IOM in cooperation with national partners from Central Asia and the Russian Federation has launched a regional initiative "Mitigating Socio-Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Migrants and Communities in Central Asia and the Russian Federation".
IOM and the Government of Tajikistan jointly facilitated the return home of over 200 Tajik migrants who had been stranded at the Kazakhstan/Uzbekistan border.
IOM, UNICEF, and the Government of Tajikistan, jointly facilitated the return home of Tajik migrants who had been stranded at the Kazakhstan/Uzbekistan border.
IOM, the UN Migration Agency, facilitated the return home of Tajik migrants who had been stranded at the Kazakhstan/Uzbekistan border.
In 2019, IOM Tajikistan in cooperation with AFEW International and AFEW Kyrgyzstan launched the project “Improving migrants’ access to HIV services in Tajikistan” to scale up the access of Tajik migrants, in particular from the key populations, to HIV services.