Tajikistan – Tajikistan Baseline Mobility Assessment (Round 3)

Mobility Tracking Matrix (MTM) implements the Baseline Mobility Assessment (BMA) in Tajikistan to track mobility, provide information on population estimates, geographic distribution of migrant workers and return migrants, reasons for migration and countries of return. Data is collected at the village level from key informants and direct observations.

The Baseline Mobility Assessment (BMA) was conducted in all five provinces in 12 districts/cities of Tajikistan (including Ismoili Somoni, Sino, Firdawsi, Shohmansur districts of Dushanbe city, Vahdat city, Rudaki district of Districts of Central Subordination, Khujand city of Sughd region, Bokhtar, Kulob cities and Panj district of Khatlon region, Khorugh city and Vanj district of Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO). This assessment covered 935 communities through interviews with 3,459 key informants. Based on the key informants' estimates, 4,010 international migrant workers were hosted in the assessed communities in Tajikistan during 2020 and April 2024. Concurrently, 3,133 internal migrants were hosted in the assessed communities and 271,059 Tajik nationals were reported to be residing abroad as international migrants. In addition, 299,834 return migrants have returned from abroad.