people and consisted of performances by actors, songs, sports events and discussions on drug-related issues. Special attention was given to youth to attract them to sports and to inform them about drug-related diseases and crimes in order to prevent them from using and trafficking drugs. With respect to strengthening the activities in this area, the President of Tajikistan in his message to the Parliament instructed to develop a National Strategy on Counter Narcotics for the period of 2012-2020 and further extended the state efforts on this issue. The Strategy fully corresponds to the activities that the OiT is implementing on the Drug Prevention Campaign since 2008 in cooperation with the DCA. The OiT, jointly with the MIA, organized a sports tournament under the motto “Sports against Drugs” among youth working in local and international organizations as well as an international Conference on ��International Cooperation in Combating Transnational DrugRelated Organized Crime” in Dushanbe and provided support in organizing a TNTD/SPMU bilateral meeting on combating illicit drug trafficking from Afghanistan with involvement of Afghan senior law enforcement managers in Dushanbe. ****** 4.15 Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan Background Since 2007, the PCUz has been providing assistance to the Police Academy under the Ministry of Interior (MoI). The assistance focuses on co-operation in improving training and exchanging experience. Special attention is paid to retraining and the professional development of specialists in enhancing public security, crime prevention, and major issues such as terrorism, extremism, drug trafficking, and human trafficking. Since 2010, the PCUz has co-operated with the Chair on Human Rights Theory and Practice under the Police Academy, and the Human Rights Protection and Legal Provision Department of the MoI and its subdivisions in the regions, on capacity building and training on human rights. Also since 2008, the office supports the work of the National Center of Drug Control (NCDC) through training and capacity building activities. The NCDC is an agency under the Cabinet of Ministers in charge of developing and implementing state strategies and policies in the fight against illicit drug circulation and supporting law enforcement in drug control, incl. collection and analysing of data. A MoU between the PCUz and the NCDC was signed on 22 January, designed to improve the quality and the delivery of the joint project by expanding activities in the field of control of illicit drug circulation and addressing related transnational organized crime issues. In the field of combating human trafficking, the PCUz supports the Inter-agency Antitrafficking Commission and other governmental agencies, as well as civil society representatives in increasing their efforts to combat human trafficking. Besides capacity building, the office focuses on establishing more systematic and sustainable counter action 148