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A four-week training course on sustained field operation capacity for border officers of Tajikistan’s Border Troops was completed on 8 April in the Tursunzoda District. The OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe in co-operation with Tajikistan’s Border Troops organized the course, which was funded by the European Union.

The OSCE Border Management Staff College (BMSC) concluded its 28th Staff Course on 24 March 2021. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the restrictions on travel, this particular course was conducted only for local Tajik border security and management officials.

Twenty border officers from Tajikistan’s Border Troops completed a three-week operational planning course on 5 March 2021 in the Hamadoni district of the Khatlon region. The course was organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe in co-operation with the Border Troops and funded by the European Union.

High-level representatives from Tajikistan’s Committee of Emergency Situations and Civil Defense (CoESCD), the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe and the European Union Delegation to Tajikistan participated in the official start of renovation work on the CoESCD Training Centre on 19 January 2021 in Karatag, Shahrinav district. The renovation will turn the CoESCD Training Centre into a facility providing training where the Committee will be able to strengthen the capacity of responders on how to react to natural disasters in border regions.

Twenty-seven officers and managers from different border security and law enforcement agencies from OSCE’s participating States completed the first module of the one-year Border Security and Management for Senior Leadership course (BSMSL) on 11 December 2020. Due to the COVID-29 pandemic and the travel restrictions, the traditional face-to-face phase of the first module was held via video teleconferencing.

The OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe launched the second round of the Sustained Field Operation Course for representatives of Tajikistan’s Committee of Emergency Situations and Civil Defence on 26 October 2020. The four-week course aims at improving the rescuers’ skills and capacities to help prepare them for conducting complex rescue operations in difficult field conditions across the country...

Twenty rescuers of Tajikistan’s Committee of Emergency Situation and Civil Defence completed a four-week training course on 10 October 2020 to improve their skills on conducting field-based emergency response operations in challenging conditions, which they commonly face while performing their duties. The course funded by the European Union was organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe in co-operation with the Committee...