On 27 January, the UNDP Seoul Policy Centre (USPC) and UNDP Tajikistan convened an inception meeting to kick off Tajikistan’s initiative for strengthened transparency and accountability, under USPC’s flagship SDG Partnership programme on Transparency and Accountability.
In August 2025, USPC launched the new SDG Partnership on Whistleblower Protection, in collaboration with the Anti-Corruption & Civil Rights Commission (ACRC) of the Republic of Korea (ROK), and Tajikistan was selected as a partner country. The webinar brought together the key partners—including ACRC and Agency for State Financial Control and Combating Corruption of the Republic of Tajikistan—who will collaborate to localize the ROK’s anti-corruption tools within the Tajik context. Through this partnership, USPC will work together with partners to strategically address anti-corruption and governance challenges in Tajikistan, supported by strong demands and national commitment.
The opening session of the meeting offered an opportunity to reaffirm the shared vision and goals of the initiative among all participating institutions. Min Ah Hwang, Director of the International Relations Division at the ACRC, underscored that corruption is a structural barrier to sustainable development, highlighting the critical role of whistleblowers and ACRC’s longstanding efforts to strengthen its whistleblower protection mechanism. Akmalzoda Nodir Nosir, Head of...
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