PROJECT "FACILITATING REGION-SPECIFIC APPROACHES TO ADDRESSING CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT-RELATED RISKS FOR PEACE AND SECURITY"
The UNEP Project "Facilitating region-specific approaches to addressing climate and environment-related risks for peace and security" in Central Asia aims to assist fragile and crisis-affected regions and communities to achieve resilience and sustain peace by addressing the climate and environmental risks.
The Project will seek to equip and empower local actors in the Ferghana Valley, spanning across Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, and to broaden engagement to a broader set of stakeholders in order to scale action to address climate related risks.
The project manager Sherzod Muminov and project expert Boris Gojenko together with local executors visited Sugd province, Tajikistan from 14 to 17 April. During the visit they had meetings with the Agency of Land Reclamation and Irrigation at the Government of Tajikistan, the Syr Darya River Basin Water Resources Administration, the Irrigation and Land Reclamation Agency, the Hydrometeorological Center, the Basin Women’s Forum, the Youth environmental group, and the "Woman and society" Association.
From 21 to 27 April, SIC’s staff and local project executors visited Batken, Zhalal-Abad and Osh provinces in the Kyrgyz Republic. As part of the visit, meetings were organized with representatives of the provincial administration, the Office of the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President in Batken province, the Department of Agriculture, Land Resources, and Infrastructure Development of the Office of the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President in Zhalal-Abad and Osh provinces, the Provincial Water Management Authority of Batken province, the Zhalal-Abad Basin Water Authority, the Regional Office of the Ministry of Natural Resources, Ecology, and Technical Supervision in Zhalal-Abad province, the Regional Office of the Ministry of Natural Resources, Ecology, and Technical Supervision of the Kyrgyz Republic in Osh province, and the Osh Basin Water Authority.
From 28 April to 2 May Mr. Muminov, Mr. Gojenko and local project executors visited Andizhan, Namangan and Fergana provinces in the Republic of Uzbekistan. The project team had meetings with representatives of the Naryn–Karadarya Basin Irrigation System Authority, the Hydrometeorological Center of Andizhan province, the Naryn–Syrdarya Basin Irrigation System Authority, the Department of Agriculture of Namangan province, the Department for Canal Operation in the Fergana Valley, the Fergana Provincial Hydrometeorology Center, the Environmental Protection Department of Fergana province, and the Main Canal Operations Authority of the Fergana Valley.
During the meetings, water management, climate, environmental, infrastructural, and socio-economic issues of the region were discussed, as well as vulnerability, impacts, and adaptation matters. As a result of the field research, expert opinions were collected to identify climate change hotspots and the most vulnerable areas.
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