Promote the stable and peaceful sustainable development of countries, and facilitate closer regional cooperation within CA and between CA and the EU; through working groups, technical platforms, and HL conferences. Project has three components: environment, climate change and water.
Promote a coordinated, safe and cost-effective management of the legacy uranium mining and processing sites in Central Asia through legislative and regulatory framework, regional watershed monitoring system, and capacity building.
Improve safety, efficiency and cost effectiveness of the management and remediation of the uranium legacy sites through protection against radiation, exposure for the population, improving the nuclear safety situation of uranium legacy site, and creating an adequate funding structure. The ERA is meant to fund environmental rehabilitation projects in Central Asian recipient countries and help in creating an environment in which these projects can be efficiently implemented.
Capacity development program that includes professional journalism trainings, joint thematic workshops for CSOs and media professionals, and the disbursement of small content production grants for creating media content on environmental topics. End goal is to improve civil engagement with environmental protection issues.
Engage stakeholders in remediation efforts to obtain their support for the remediation works, through involvement and informing of stakeholders concerning uranium legacy sites remediation in order to clearly demonstrate the benefits for the population involved as well as to inform about the positive impact on public health and the environment.
Facilitate sustainable and climate-resilient investments for increased water, energy and food security in Central Asia, through creating a multisectoral enabling environment
Identify the principal threats to biodiversity in Central Asia and the most appropriate responses from the EU. Building on lessons learned from past and current activities, and taking due account of the urgencies, the study proposed a coherent strategic approach outlining a suite of interventions that enable EU, as well as other donors which could adhere to it, through pragmatic well-targeted activities, to engage in effective, well-articulated and complementary interventions for biodiversity conservation
Develop an Ecosystem Profile and investment strategy for Central Asia as a guide to future grant making to civil society groups working in the region, through an extensive bottom-up consultation process. The results of this process was presented in a document entitled the Ecosystem Profile for the Mountains of Central Asia Biodiversity Hotspot.
Strengthening regional cooperation and partnership with the EU in the fields of integrated water resource management, forest and biodiversity governance – including environmental monitoring and environmental awareness-raising – as well as improving coordination on environmental issues region-wide through the EU-Central Asia Environment and Water Cooperation Platform. It is a four-part programme:
An environment and water cooperation platform for dialogue.
EU support for the sustainable use and management of natural resources in Central Asia in the areas of climate change, forest governance (Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade – FLEGT(link is external)), ecological recovery and environmental data collection, exchange, monitoring and assessment.
A partnership on integrated water resources management water management to share best practice on water management between Central Asian and European water management bodies, basin organisations and help train professionals.
Environmental awareness-raising on Central Asia’s most problematic environmental issues.
Identification of priority investments for climate resilience and low-carbon growth. The TA had two components: (i) the component ‘adaptation to climate change’ assessed the costs and benefits of implementing adaptation measures to reduce the adverse effects of climate change on energy and water resources in the most vulnerable countries, i.e., Afghanistan, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Tajikistan; and (ii) the component ‘mitigation of climate change’ assessed the costs and benefits of GHG emission reduction measures and formulated low-carbon growth investment proposals for energy and transport in the most carbon-intensive countries in the region, i.e., Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan.
