FIRST MEETING ON ESTABLISHING BASIN DIALOGUES FOR THE AMU DARYA AND SYR DARYA RIVER BASINS
On November 30, 2023, the first meeting on establishing Amu Darya and Syr Darya River Basin Dialogues was held in Tashkent within the framework of the Regional Programme “Climate-Sensitive Water Resources Management in Central Asia” commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and co-financed by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).
The Programme was developed as part of the Green Central Asia Initiative in accordance with the Regional Action Plan on a joint political dialogue on climate, environment and security, agreed upon by the Central Asian countries in November 2021. The main goal of the Programme is to strengthen the capacity of national and regional organisations responsible for water resources management to implement climate-sensitive integrated water resources management at the regional and river basin level.
The focus of the Programme is to support complementary approaches to integrated water resources management (IWRM); one of them is the transboundary river basin dialogue, which brings together relevant national and regional stakeholder groups.
Objectives of the meeting included:
- Strengthening basin dialogue between national authorized agencies (on water, environment, energy, agriculture and other stakeholders) in the Amu Darya and Syr Darya River basins to improve regional cooperation and climate-sensitive IWRM planning;
- Enhancing regional cooperation by developing the monitoring and planning tools guided by climate-sensitive IWRM principles.
The meeting was attended by authorised representatives appointed from each Central Asian country (representatives of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Central Asia, relevant line ministries), as well as representatives of the international partners of the Programme.
Deputy Director A.M. Nazariy took part in the meeting on behalf of SIC ICWC.
Source: Green Central Asia
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