Bishkek – Kyrgyzstan – The Regional Environmental Center for Central Asia (CAREC) Country Office for Kyrgyzstan held a round table conference to review the Biosafety Clearing-House of the Cartagena Protocol on March 16, 2023. The event was organized under the UNEP-GEF project “Sustainable capacity building for effective participation in the Cartagena Protocol Biosafety Clearing-House (BCH)” implemented by the CAREC country office for Kyrgyzstan. 

Dushanbe - Tajikistan - On February 28 - March 2, the annual partners' meeting of the Resource Efficiency in Agricultural Production and Processing (REAP) project 8 February - 2 March 2023 the annual partners meeting of the project “Resource Efficiency in Agri-food Production and Processing in Central Asia” (REAP) was held. The meeting was held onsite with five project partners organisations joining the meeting in person. Parts of the meeting were held in a hybrid format. As in previous partner meeting, this meeting began with a review of the past year, with each partner presenting what had been planned and achieved during the year.