The Strategy on Countering Extremism and Terrorism for the Republic of Tajikistan for the period of 2021-2025 (in the following referred to as the Strategy) is based on a comprehensive understanding of the root causes and the complex repercussions of violent extremism and terrorism for the state and society as a whole. Therefore, the approach against the threats by violent extremism and terrorism of the Strategy combines a whole of government with a whole of society approach, acknowledging that short and long-term perspectives need to be balanced, and that measures of law enforcement need to be linked and combined with a broad range of preventive measures.
In the Strategy, the General Prosecutor’s Office has been assigned the task to act as the overall coordinating body responsible for implementing the Action Plan of the Strategy according to the paragraphs 34-35 of the Strategy and paragraph 2 of the Presidential Decree dated from June 1st, 2021 #187. In order to fulfil this task effectively, a Secretariat for the Implementation of the Strategy has been established. It enables the effective planning, steering, monitoring and evaluation of the implementation process of the Strategy. This will ensure the effective implementation of the Strategy in a whole of government and whole of society approach.
The Secretariat is an institutionalized temporary structure under supervision, but not within the regular chain of command of the General Prosecutor’s Office.
The secretariat will perform the following five core functions:
- Steering and supervision
- Overall planning and coordination
- Dialogue and network building
- Information and communication
- Monitoring and evaluation.
