Technical Assistance Package for the Sustainable Energy Support Programme in Tajikistan

NTU’s implementation approach builds upon extensive multi-country experience in energy sector reform and institutional change, underpinned by three foundational pillars: Solid Legal and Regulatory Foundations, Sound Governance and Sector Regulation, and Human-Centric Change Management. These pillars enable the delivery of five interconnected technical outputs, ensuring comprehensive and sustainable reform.  

Key methods include early engagement with stakeholders to identify and mitigate risks, peer-to-peer collaboration between Tajikistan and EU professionals, and bespoke capacity-building initiatives to empower local energy sector professionals. Tools such as adaptive project management systems, real-time monitoring dashboards, and structured knowledge exchange workshops ensure continuous improvement and alignment with best practices. Processes are streamlined through strong coordination with sector stakeholders and integration of lessons learnt from NTU’s previous projects, including GT092. This approach ensures transparency, innovation, and alignment with Tajikistan’s unique energy sector context and international standards. 

For the outcome of the better governance of Green Transition in the Electricity Sector in Tajikistan, NTU supports the amending process of market rules that govern the national power market, develops the Vision of the Government of Tajikistan for the Electricity Sector, National Strategies (RE-EE), Action Plans and Roadmaps, promotes the integration of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus approach in Strategic Planning, and Gender and vulnerable groups equality dimension in energy policy debate. The second Project’s outcome of better governance of Green Transition in the Electricity Sector in Tajikistan, NTU develops the roadmap for cost-reflective tariff setting in the electricity sector and supports its implementation, enhances licensing procedures in generation, transmission and distribution transparency and accessibility to all customers, adopts actions to improve the level of operation of the internal market in Tajikistan and connection with neighbouring countries. In the outcome of three compartment - Improved Generation-Transmission-Distribution Operators’ regulatory compliance with organisational structures, sustainability of operations and cost-reflectiveness – NTU supports measures directed at enhancing the level of Quality of the Generation-Transmission-Distribution Services, the level of financial soundness of Market Operators and support the establishment of Cost-recovery mechanism for irrigation.