The "Human Development Support Programme" (HDSP) for Tajikistan has been developed 2010 and its objective is to contribute to the improvement of health and social protection status of the population, especially the poor and most vulnerable groups. The general objective of the current assignment is to contribute to the identification and formulation process for a new programme extending support to health and SP reforms embraced within HDSP I. There are three specific objectives of the assignment: - First specific objective is to contribute to the preparation of an effective and efficient EU Human Development Support programme (HDSP II), with a focus on the health component. - Second specific objective is to provide support to the monitoring and implementation of the EU budget support under the currently ongoing Human Development Support Programme. - Third Specific objective is to support the EUD to prepare ToRs for the two planned PFM service contracts.