DROPS OF THE FUTURE CONCLUDING EVENT: YOUTH INITIATIVES FOR SUSTAINABLE FUTURE IN CENTRAL ASIA
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), together with Switzerland and the Austrian Host Government, has organized a concluding event of the "Drops of the Future" Youth Workshop Series. The event was held in Vienna, Austria on 25-27 February 2025.
The OSCE, in collaboration with Switzerland, has initiated the "Drops of the Future" Youth Workshop Series to engage young professionals, especially women, in the water-food-energy nexus. In the process of the series of workshops that took plays in each of the five Central Asian countries young people developed innovative approaches and networked to search for sustainable solutions.
The concluding event brought together OSCE delegations, stakeholders, experts and youth from the region and beyond to discuss outcomes of the workshop series and showcase base practices and innovative solutions, as well as identify the ways forward.
In the course of the event, the Youth Declaration and the toolkit of innovative solutions for the WEF Nexus were showcased and panel discussions were organized with youth, academia, private sector and international organizations. At the panel discussion "Negotiations and science - opposite sides of the same coin?", Oygul Usmanova, SIC ICWC presented the case of relations between the Central Asian countries and the scientific community under umbrella of the Interstate Commission for Water Coordination (ICWC) of Central Asia.
In parallel to the event, a regular meeting of the Women in Water Management Network in Central Asia and Afghanistan was held on 25 February. Ms. Usmanova took part in the meeting as a member of the Network. Members of the Network discussed activities within the network for 2025, as well as possibilities of collaboration as part of activity on the designing the regional Centre of Excellence on nexus approach on the basis of the Expert Platform on Water Security, Sustainable Development and Future Studies supported by SIC ICWC.
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