Secure data centres, a single digital platform for client services and administration, stronger cybersecurity, digitised records and better data sharing with other government bodies go to the agency under the project, which also upgrades its offices in Dushanbe and Bokhtar and trains the staff, the release says. “For people who have worked all their lives, retirement security should not depend on paperwork or distance from an office,” ADB President Masato Kanda said. As the conflict in the Middle East drives up costs, the project is to extend protection to workers who remain outside the system, he said.
A $20.5 million grant for a system whose benefits the bank calls among the lowest in Central Asia and the South Caucasus. Informal and seasonal work, self-employment and labour migration keep many workers outside the pension system, the bank writes, while higher food and fuel prices, transport disruption and uncertainty over migration linked to the conflict press on low-income households, pensioners, informal workers and women.
Enrolment is to reach informal and self-employed workers, migrants and their families, and women with limited access to benefits are to be connected with maternal health care and protection from violence, by the same text. Pension benefits in Tajikistan are among the lowest in Central Asia and the South Caucasus, the bank writes.
A $20.5 million grant for a system whose benefits the bank calls among the lowest in Central Asia and the South Caucasus.
The grant follows the ratification vote of 2 October on the World Bank’s second $300 million grant for the Rogun plant, as CAW reported, and comes in the week Rahmon asked the five other presidents at Avaza for a list of priority energy projects with mechanisms for their joint financing. Both funds and the agency’s name are on the bank’s page, and the government’s counterpart contribution is not.