Tokyo, Japan

September 7, 2016
Muhamadjon Salimzoda
Deputy Chairman, Committee of Emergency
Situations and Civil Defense, Republic of Tajikistan
 Population: 8.2 million
Area: 143000 sq. kilometers (93% of overall land area is
mountainous)
Tajikistan is one of the most vulnerable countries to risks of
natural hazards in Europe and Central Asia region
Most common and destructive hazards are floods, earthquakes,
landslides, mudflows, avalanches, droughts, and heavy
snowfalls
Between 1997 and 2011, losses associated with natural
disasters in Tajikistan were estimated to be over USD 353
million
 The Committee of Emergency Situations and Civil Defense under the Government of Republic of
Tajikistan is a state management body, in charge of administration of a unified state policy in the sphere of
preparation and protection of the population, economy assets, and territory of the Republic of Tajikistan
against the consequences of emergency situations during peaceful and war periods, as well as handling
organization of coordination of all ranges of state wide, legal, defensive and other activities, aimed at
protection of the population of Tajikistan, economy assets, and the territory of the Republic of Tajikistan
against the consequences of natural and ecological disasters, and large scale industrial catastrophes.
Main tasks of CoESCD:
protection of the population, economy assets, and territory of the Republic of Tajikistan against the
consequences of emergency situations during peaceful and war periods;
organization of preparation, training of the population, conducting of constant control over the conditions of
forces and resources of civil defense;
organization of development and implementation of activities, over the territory of Tajikistan, on preparation
and protection of the population, economy assets, and the territory of the country against possible
emergency situations, their notification, localization and liquidation;
organization of management and control over conduct of rescue and other urgent actions on liquidation of
large scale industrial .and their consequences;
organization of development and implementation of targeted scientific and technical programs, aimed at
notification, localization and liquidation of consequences of emergency situations, protection of the
population, economy assets, and te territory of the Republic of Tajikistan;
 Chairman of the Commission -
Head of the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan

First Deputy Chairman of the Commission-

Prime Minister of the Republic of Tajikistan

Deputy Chairman of the Commission- Deputy Chairman of the Commission - Responsible Secretary of the Commission
Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Chairman of the CoESCD under GoRT Head of the Defense and Order
of Tajikistan Department of the Executive Office of the
President

Members of the State Commission

1. Minister of Justice 18. Chairman of the Tax Committee
2. Minister of Agriculture 19. Chairman of the Construction and Architecture Committee
3. Minister of Internal Affairs 20. Chairman of the Television Committee
4. Minister of Foreign Affairs 21. Chairman of the Environmental Protection Committee
5. Minister of Education and Science 22. Chief of Communication Services
6. Minister of Labor, Migration, and Employment 23. Chief of Customs Service
7. Minister of Finance 24. Chief of State Oversight and Work Safety Services
8. Minister of Defense 25. Director of Agency of Land Reclamation and Irrigation
9. Minister of Transport 26. Director of State Reserve Agency
10. Minister of Economic Development and Trade 27. Director of Agency on Standard Control
11. Minister of Industry 28. Director of Forestry Agency
12. Minister of Health 29. Chief of Main Geology Department
13. Minister of Culture 30. Director of Agency on Financial Control and Fight against Corruption
14. Minister of Energy and Water Resources 31. Director of Agency on Statistics
15. Chairman of the State Security Committee 32. Chief of Agriculture and Environmental Protection Department of the
16. Chairman of the Land Management Committee Executive Office of the President
17. Chairman of the State Investment and State Property Mgmt. Committee
 National Platform provides the Government of Republic of Tajikistan with a
structure for planning and coordination of activities on reduction of natural
hazards, and with an additional entry point for dialogue with REACT partners on
these issues.
For the first time, due to the approval of the Memorandum of Understanding
by the members of the REACT group in 2008, both the Government of Tajikistan and
the development partners were able to strengthen the overall management of
disaster risks in Tajikistan, based on the National Strategy on Disaster Risk
Management and establishment of the National Disaster Risk Reduction Platform.
Since the very beginning in 2001, REACT has played an important role in
mobilization of support for purposes of coordination of reaction to large scale
emergency situations, which occurred in Tajikistan.
 CoESCD (Secretariat of the
National Platform)

Ministries and REACT

Agencies of National Disaster Risk (Members of
Republic of Reduction Platform REACT and
Tajikistan Development
Partners)

Mass Media
Private Sector
and etc

Civil Society
 As a result of destructive floods in July of 2015, particularly in GBAO, the
Government of Republic of Tajikistan has requested the World Bank to
support the rehabilitation of critical transport and flood protection
infrastructure

Consisting of 4 components, SCINHP focuses on rehabilitation of critical

infrastructure by means of building back better approach, as well as
provision of support to key ministries and agencies, such as Ministry of
Transport, Agency of Land Reclamation and Irrigation, Ministry of Finance,
and Committee of Emergency Situations and Civil Defense, on increasing
their technical and institutional capacities in planning and management of
disaster risks.
Technical support under the GFDRR Trust Fund is aimed at supporting the preparation of the
mentioned SCINH project, and also to complement projects institutional and technical
activities by way of:
- Component 1: Institutional strengthening of DRM capacity

- Component 2: Preparation of hazard information for strengthening of critical

infrastructure

- Component 3: Strengthening of disaster risk identification and preparedness and

response capacities

- Component 4: Improving exposure database for the road network

 Component 3: conducting a capacity and needs assessment for various departments within the
CoESCD that are involved in risk identification and emergency preparedness and response, such as the
Information Management Analytical Center, Crisis Management Center, Search and Rescue Center, and
the Methodical-Training Center, and development of conceptual design of crises management centers
network

Component 4: improving the national road network exposure information via development of GIS
database for national roads with relevant attributes and bridges, tunnels and other infrastructure that
is part of the network (inventory)

In Tajikistan, there are already existing studies and activities conducted for various parts of the country,
particularly in terms of transport network, done by by development partners (such as JICA). Accordingly,
close collaboration with these organizations on part of relevant ministries and agencies of Tajikistan will
be quite necessary, such as during the planned road network data on the national level.
 In Japan, mechanism and approach to preparedness and reaction to emergency situations is
quite effectively put in place from practical standpoint, which stems from Japans difficult
experience of past disasters;

It is impossible not to highlight the fact that preparedness, planning and management of
disaster risks is a cross-cutting theme in Japan, to which attention is paid at the highest
level of Japans Government, as was demonstrated throughout the visit, and during the
September 1 National Drills held in Tokyo, in particular;

As was observed both in Tokyo and Kobe, the system and capacity of reaction to crises
situations is very effective both at the national and local levels (for example dispatch
services, crises management centers), and furthermore, active engagement of the
population as volunteers of fire brigades, community groups, and other forms is also
effective;
 Submit a proposal to the Government of Republic of Tajikistan
on announcing a national day of preparedness to disaster risks,
with practical participation and oversight of the highest
echelons of the Government

Consider the relevant experiences of Japan during the process

of the planned capacity and needs assessment of CoESCD, such
as to look at feasibility of automatization and visualization of
dispatching functions and hazard data / information collection
and transfer mechanisms