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USAID Community Connections Program – Tajikistan Program Overview & Goals The Community Connections Program offers home-stay based practical training opportunities in the U.S. for entrepreneurs, local government officials, legal professionals, non-governmental organization leaders and other professionals from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. Local community host organizations arrange internships for participants based on interests and experience. The goals of the program are to - provide participants with professional training and exposure to day-to-day functioning of a free market system; - encourage public-private partnerships in Europe/Eurasia by including private sector and government participants on U.S. visits; - create links between U.S. and Europe/Eurasia regions and communities History Since 2006 through USAID Community Connections program 139 professionals from Tajikistan have participated in this program. Depending on program themes professionals from Tajikistan had chances to visit different organizations and institutions in the United States. Participants from 14 groups represent the following fields: (1) Journalism; (2) Medicine; (3) Tourism; (4) Religion; (5) Agribusiness; (6) Education; (7) Women leaders; and (8) Agriculture. Upon return from the program, CC/TJ alumni conduct different alumni activities in their communities including press-conferences; trainings; and conferences. Moreover, the CC/TJ alumni established an alumni association that serves for networking of the alumni and assisting to implement alumni projects in the regions.
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