Shahzod Avazov is a Monitoring and Evaluation Officer in FAO in Tajikistan with more than five years of experience on development, tracking, and monitoring of national and regional strategic development documents. Prior to joining the FAO in September 2018, he served as a local consultant on Integration of P-E-G (poverty, environment, and gender equality) indicators into the M&E framework of the Socio-Economic Development Programme of Dushanbe for 2025. Also, he was involved as a thematic coordinator on the development of the National Report 2018 on the National Development Strategy for the period up to 2030 and Mid-term Development Programme for 2016-2020 aligned with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Before then, Shahzod worked as a Chief specialist to the Department of Development of Regions and Monitoring of National Development Programs at the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of the Republic of Tajikistan. His research and professional interests include poverty and inequality, gender and environment, food security and agricultural economics. He has eight publications including journal articles and chapters in edited volumes. He studied his PhD in Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany.
