The overall objective of this project is to build and improve institutional capacities to manage river basins for selected Transboundary rivers and sub-basins. Location : Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan
The project aimed to increase know-how among the hydrometeorological institutes of all five countries and to raise preparedness for weather-related natural disasters, which could become more frequent because of climate change. Efficient weather and climate services help to manage the adverse effects of climate change and extreme weather events on the economy and human life. In addition, the cooperation partners in Uzbekistan were assisted in modernising their institute and revising its development strategy.
Project Objectives: To develop capacity within our project teams, partners and local stakeholders in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan in climate adaptation planning. To use climate adaptation planning processes and tools to develop climate adaptation plans for two fruit & nut project sites. To share the project’s experiences of climate adaptation planning with local and national policy makers.
CAEWDP was formally established as a trust fund in 2010 by the Government of Switzerland and the World Bank. The Program supports the Central Asian (CA) countries (Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) and the World Bank’s twin goals to reduce poverty and ensure shared prosperity through long-term
economic growth and sustainability. By balancing donor support with national and regional objectives, CAEWDP is able to enhance cooperation and the promotion of integrated energy and water development initiatives at the regional as well as national levels. The Program activities address the three pillars of Energy Development, Water Productivity,
and Energy-Water Linkages by producing three outcomes: support for diagnostics and analysis,
preparation of investments, and the strengthening of national and regional institutions.
In 2014, CAEWDP underwent a transformational change, as the focus of CAEWDP activities evolved from diagnostics and analytics to technical assistance (TA) and investment identification.
National Policy Dialogues (NPDs) support water sector reforms in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA) through assistance to Governments in: development and implementation of water strategies and legislation based on IWRM principles; strengthening intersectoral cooperation to improve water and health and implement the UNECE/WHO-Europe Protocol on Water and Health, in particular by setting and implementing targets on the whole water cycle and on the water and health nexus; development of national policies for the management of transboundary waters in accordance with the Water Convention and other international environmental instruments.
To prepare a simplified quantitative risk assessment to determine the social and economic loss potentials and the likelihood of occurrence of different hazards at country, sub-regional and regional levels. Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan. Technical; Flood; Drought; Earthquake; Land Slide; Epidemic
Land users, government agencies and the private sector in Central Asia adopt integrated, economically and ecologically sustainable forms of land use, taking climate change into account.
The programme works in six following areas:Â Forests, Pasture, Environmental economics, Climate change adaptation, Knowledge management, Environmental education and awareness raising. The programme works in six following areas:Â
Forests, Pasture, Environmental economics, Climate change adaptation, Knowledge management, Environmental education and awareness raising.
Reports on climate risks in CA, specially in Kyrgyzstan, focussed on water, from a practical, hydrological and geographic point of view, scientific analysis, technical analysis, authored by Camp Alatoo in collaboration with UNDP Central Asia Climate Risk Management Program content: The Climate Risk Assessment Guide – Central Asia provides a clear and practical process to assess the impacts and outcomes of climate-related events on lives and livelihoods in Central Asia. The need the Guide arises from the region’s arid climate and the livelihoods systems based on this climate, significant impacts from climate-related damage, and regional infrastructure not designed to reflect current capacities to address climate risk impacts. Short and long-term climate risks threaten poverty reduction and developmental sustainability. Existing climate impact reports for Central Asia need to be complemented by assessment results that downscale the understanding of climate impacts in ways that support sub-national climate risk management.
The Guide is divided into three broad sections:
* Conceptual background to risk assessment,
* Methodological approaches and procedures for the Central Asia assessments process, and
* A step-by-step process for conducting assessments based leading to the development of climate risk assessment profiles or other practical outputs.
The project addresses a sustainable, climate and siteÂadapted management of natural resources along the Amudarya, thereby improving the livelihoods of the people in the target region and the environmental capacity of the floodplain natural space.
This report describes the role of glaciers in the stream flow of the rivers of the Aral Basin. The study area contains the mountain basins at the headwaters of the Amu Darya and Syr Darya, located primarily in the Pamir, Hindu Kush, Karakoram, and western Tien Shan mountains. The Amu Darya study area includes the mountain basins of the Vakhsh and Panj rivers; the Syr Darya study area includes the mountain basins of the Naryn, Kara, and Chirchik rivers, and a number of small basins on the north-facing slopes of the Alai Range. There are presently no credible conceptual models describing the hydrometeorological environments of the high mountains of Asia that quantify the glacier melt component. Furthermore, there is a general lack of sufficient data to test hypotheses that relate glaciers and rivers, either as a result of a lack of a current monitoring program, or as a result of a reluctance to share these data on the part of some governments. The purpose of this study is to assess the role of the glaciers in the Pamir, Hindu Kush, Karakoram, Alai, and Tien Shan mountains in the volume and timing of stream flow of the Amu Darya and Syr Darya, and, in terms of these finding, to discuss the implications of the general retreat of glaciers for the water resources. Results are presented primarily in graphical and tabular form, and only the most salient conclusions are drawn.
