Green Central Asia: Transboundary dialogue on climate, environment and security in Central Asia and Afghanistan

2021 - 2024

The Green Central Asia Regional Programme aims at improving access to information and risk analyses in order to enable participating countries to assess the impact of climate change more accurately and to take preventive measures. At the same time, dialogue fora and workshops are meant to increase states´ resilience and decision-makers’ ability to adequately address security hazards resulting from climate change at national and regional level. It promotes conflict prevention and trans-boundary cooperation. Support is also provided to develop the capacity of partner institutions in the field of environmental management.

Regional programme on integrative and climate sensitive land use in Central Asia II (ILUCA II)

2021 - 2026

Follow-up phase of Regional programme for sustainable and climate sensitive land use for economic development in Central Asia

Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Program for Aral Sea Basin Additional Financing (CAMP4ASB AF)

2021 - 2025

Scaling up the Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Program for Aral Sea Basin (CAMP4ASB) by providing support to adaptation activities in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Providing grants to the most vulnerable communities for climate resilient measures in priority areas, including to the poorest populations residing in risk-prone areas, and marginalized groups such as women.

Orientation of infrastructure investments towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda in Central and Southeast Asia (SIPA)

2021 - 2026

The project supports partner countries in prioritizing infrastructure projects that are compatible with long-term, low-emission and resilient development goals.

Strengthening the World Biodiversity Council IPBES by capacity building in the EECCA region

2021 - 2024

The Intergovernmental Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) provides assessments on the global status of biodiversity and presents options for its conservation and sustainable use. The project strengthened the uptake of IPBES findings into decisions in environmental and conservation policy in the partner countries.

Enhancing the conservation of flagship migratory mammal species of Central Asia through climate-informed management and decision making

2021 - 2025

Migratory species in Central Asia are highly vulnerable to climate change. As a result of changing migration patterns, protected areas are rendered ineffective. Changes in the use of pastures (extension of grazing periods and shifting grazing areas to higher elevations) are ex-pected to lead to increased human-wildlife conflicts. In order to increase the resilience of people and wildlife in Central Asia to climate change ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) measures and climate change-informed wildlife management will be tested in pilot sites.

Inclusive and Climate Investments finance in the Livestock sector of Uzbekistan

2021 - 2025

The project aims at promoting the sustainable and climate compliant development of the Uzbek livestock sector by supporting selected investments through credit, additional financial products and Technical Assistance to stakeholders and final beneficiaries. The instruments are a credit line to the Republic of Uzbekistan (represented by Ministry of Finance, MoF) on-lent to 4 participating financial institutions (PFI) for provision of Climate smart investment and additional support targeted at improving the access to investments and credit for smallholders with the support of national guarantees as collateral and interest subsidies from the National Fund for Entrepreneurship Support (NFES).

Sustainable Rural Development project

2021 -

Sustainable Rural Development project (SRDP) aims to enhance the living standards of the rural residents in Uzbekistan by providing access to quality infrastructure and service delivery. Project will significantly improve the living standards of the rural communities in the lagging villages in Karakalpakstan, Khorezm, Bukhara and Navoiy regions while expressing his desire for further scale up of the program in other regions of the country.

Uzbekistan : Sustainable Solid-Waste Management Project

2021 - 2025

The project will assist the government to (i) update the SWM legal framework by developing specific regulatory directives; (ii) build institutional capacity in and improve the sustainability of the Republican Association of Specialized Enterprises for Sanitary Cleaning and toza hududs; (iii) develop and mainstream environmental education, awareness, and advocacy; (iv) strengthen toza hudud asset bases and improve collection services through the provision of vehicles, equipment, and physical infrastructure; and (v) improve SCEEP's environmental testing capabilities.

Promoting sustainable economic development: Support for economic reforms and sustainable economic development in regions of Uzbekistan

2021 - 2025

The project contributes to the implementation of economic policy reform in agriculture and tourism as well as in related industries such as handicrafts and silk production. It promotes inclusive growth and sustainable economic development with a focus on rural areas. At the same time, it helps to create employment and income-generating opportunities. The project focuses on the region of Karakalpakstan and on the three regions in the Fergana Valley – Namangan, Andijan and Fergana.

Delivering a Climate Change Strategy for Central and West Asia

2022 - 2027

This knowledge and support technical assistance (TA) will support the delivery of a Climate Change Strategy and an Action Plan for Central and West Asia to strengthen integration of climate change considerations in Asian Development Banks (ADB) financed interventions in the developing member countries (DMCs) of the region.

Climate Risk Manageent

2022 - 2026

The project aims to strengthen institutional capacity and cross-border cooperation among Central Asian countries. The programme contributes to the nationally-agreed Sustainable Development Goals on climate change adaptation (SDG 13) and peace and security (SDG 16). The project advises watershed associations, a regional disaster management centre and stakeholders from individual watershed councils to develop capacity for transboundary water-related climate risk reduction. It is planned that together with the Green Central Asia project, the module will support the Executive Committee of the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea (EC IFAS) in relation to transboundary water management in the light of climate change. The high level policy dialogue processes organised by Green Central Asia are supported by the project through national and regional policy dialogue projects and thus a regional agenda is achieved to identify common approaches (output level).

SUFACHAIN Sustainable agroforestry value chains

2022 - 2025

The agricultural sector represents an important means of livelihood for the rural population in Central Asia. At the same time, the region's agricultural and forest landscapes are at risk of degradation, a situation made worse by population growth and economic development. The SUFACHAIN project therefore aims to analyse agroforestry systems and integrate them into local land use systems, while at the same time developing products and technologies that contribute to the sustainable use of resources and create local value.

FELICITY II - Eastern Partnership and Central Asia Program

2022 - 2026

Technical and financial aspects hinder low carbon infrastructure finance. To reduce these barriers the project focuses on two sectors in its partner countries: residential energy efficiency and water and wastewater. On the national level, countries will be supported to create favourable framework conditions for infrastructure investments. Financial intermediaries will be strengthened to on-lend and structure climate finance. On the subnational level, experts and decision makers are supported to prepare bankable low carbon investment projects. This technical assistance will be coupled with a financial contribution by an international finance institution to ensure low-carbon infrastructure projects are implemented and scaled up.

Enhancing Cooperation for Conservation Impact in the Western Tien-Shan

2022 - 2024

Strengthen transboundary cooperation between the seven protected areas and build their capacity for effective and consistent monitoring, reporting and implementation of conservation measures.