National Development Strategy of the Republic of Tajikistan for the period until 2030.

This is cross-sectoral nationwide policy document based on the Concept of sustainable development. Based on the aforesaid the complete eradication of poverty, the changing of unsustainable and the promotion of sustainable consumption and production patterns, as well as the protection and sustainable use of natural resources for further economic and social development, are the main challenges and vital conditions for sustainable human development. The main objectives shall be: (a) education; (b) healthcare; (c) enhancement of productive employment; (d) eradication of inequality; (e) fighting corruption; (f) food security and nutrition; (g) good governance; (e) social protection; (f) prevention of potential conflicts; and (g) energy security, environment and demographic processes management. The priorities shall be enhancing social protection, ensuring access to safe foodstuffs, improvement of water supply and sanitary structure.
In the field of food security and access of the population to quality food shall be performed the following actions: (a) promoting agrarian and water reform; (b) ensuring economic and physical access to food through sustainable growth of the agro-industrial sector; (c) diversification of agricultural production, including the introduction of innovations, taking into account the minimal impact on the environment and land quality, development of measures to replace hazardous chemicals with alternative, less hazardous ones, increasing the attractiveness of the sector especially for dehkan farms through the formation and strengthening of value chains; (d) increasing access to improved seeds and fertilizers on the domestic market, increasing the production of agricultural commodities through motivation to use new agricultural methods and technology; (e) establishing an effective system of risk management and monitoring of food security and nutrition; (f) formation of a system of land and water resources management on the basis of their fair and sustainable distribution for the cultivation of valuable agricultural crops; (g) restoration of irrigation and drainage systems to improve water supply to irrigated lands and reclamation of saline and marsh land; and (h) development of the agricultural products market and overcoming barriers to direct market access for agricultural producers.
Reduction of rural poverty shall be performed through implementation of the following measures: (a) support and development of small and medium enterprises in cities and villages as an effective way to increase the number of jobs and solve social problems; (b) promotion of "green employment", expansion and state support of environmental entrepreneurship system and market of environmental services; (c) providing the rural population with jobs through the development of fallow and new lands; (d) developing an educational network for skills development, retraining and professional development that takes into account the needs of women, youth, vulnerable groups, including persons with disabilities; and (e) implementation of state policy of employment coordinated with education policy.
The main priority areas for action to create a comfortable living environment shall be disaster risk management development, creating safety areas from a disaster risk prevention perspective and integration of natural, climatic disaster risk reduction activities into the country's economic sector management system and Mitigation of acute environmental risks, increased resilience and ability to anticipate natural disasters.