SECOND MEETING OF THE SYR DARYA RIVER BASIN DIALOGUE
On January 22, 2025, the 2nd meeting of the Basin Dialogue in the Syr Darya River Basin was held in Tashkent as part of the Program "Climate Sensitive Water Resources Management in Central Asia". Dinara Ziganshina, Alexander Dolidudko and Gulnoza Khamdamova took part in the meeting on behalf of SIC ICWC.
The Program is implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, with the financial support from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and co-financing by the EU and SDC. The Program’s primary goal is to strengthen national and regional organizations responsible for water management in Central Asia to implement climate-sensitive integrated water resources management in a regionally coordinated manner.
The meeting was attended by authorized representatives appointed from each Central Asian country (representatives of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Central Asia, relevant sectoral ministries, Hydrological Services), as well as representatives of the programme’s international partners.
The meeting’s objectives included:
- based on agreement with national authorities, improving regional cooperation through the development of monitoring and planning tools in line with the principles of integrated water resources management (IWRM), with account of climate change;
- presenting and discussing pilot projects agreed upon by national partners within the framework of the GIZ/SDC/EU water management programme;
- facilitating the exchange of management practices and enhancing the water management system and infrastructure within the Syr Darya river basin;
- discussing proposals for joint work within the agreed priority area "Enhancing resilience to climate change through the discussion of possible infrastructure development (Nexus approach) and improving monitoring/forecasting of river flow using modern methods along the Syr Darya river";
- discussing the concept for organization of events on occasion of the Syr Darya River Day in 2025.
Dinara Ziganshina, Director of SIC ICWC presented the conceptual framework of joint analytical work for informing dialogue on the priority "Infrastructure issues, resilience to climate change (Nexus approach) in the Syr Darya basin".
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