The project activities are structured around three interconnected outcomes, each strategically tailored to address the multifaceted dimensions of climate risk management:
Outcome 1. Strengthened Regional Climate Resilience and Collaboration through the Central Asian Climate Change Conference.
Output 1.1: Execution Central Asian Climate Change Conference (CACCC) to Strengthen Regional Climate Resilience and Collaboration.
Activity 1: Establish a conference organizing committee comprised of key regional stakeholders, including government representatives, climate experts, and event planners.
Activity 2: Develop a comprehensive conference agenda, set objectives and themes, and select speakers and participants.
Activity 3: Host the Central Asian Climate Change Conference, including plenary sessions, workshops, and panel discussions.
Output 1.2: Strengthened Regional Knowledge Exchange via Workshop Sessions.
Activity 1: Coordinate a knowledge-sharing preconference workshop and establish a web-based platform for the CACCC.
Activity 2: Promote interactive discussions and knowledge exchange among key speakers to consolidate the thematic sessions.
Outcome 2. Enhancing Decision-Making through Accessible Climate Information
Output 2.1: CACIP is expanded with the Climate Risk Information Portal.
Activity 1: Create user-friendly online portals based on CACIP to consolidate climate data, research reports, and forecasts, focusing on climate risk.
Activity 2: Integrate Climate Risk Information into CACIP's Framework.
Output 2.2: Strengthening Climate-Responsive Decision-Making Through CACIP's Enhanced Features
Activity 1: CACIP integrates hydrological and meteorological data visualization, exchange facilitation, utilization, and performance monitoring.
Outcome 3. Capacity Development for Basin Stakeholders and Local Communities:
Output 3.1: Mapping and Review of Current Institutions and Plans
Activity 1: Conduct mapping activities in the selected pilot basins (Murgab TM; Zaravshan TJ and UZ; Shahimardan KG and UZ; Isfairamsay KG and UZ; Chon Kemin KG and Chu KZ).
Activity 2: Assess and provide strategic guidance and recommendations to the existing basin plans to embed climate change and risk activities.
Output 3.2: Capacity Building for Basin Councils, Local Authorities, and Communities
Activity 1: Train basin council representatives and local water authorities in climate change, focusing on climate risk management strategies.
Activity 2: Co-design of the training programme: adaptation of the results of the CRA for each basin (together with the CRA assessor).
Activity 3: Organization of 5 training sessions in the five pilot basins (1 national in Murgab, four transboundary capacity building meetings)
Goals and objectives:
Enhancing the resilience of Central Asian countries by integrating climate risk management into regional policy dialogues and engaging decision-makers and climate change experts, as well as developing a web-based knowledge management platform dedicated to climate risk management in Central Asia, while strengthening the capacity of local river basin communities to manage climate change risks in the region.
Target groups
National hydrometeorological agencies, environmental agencies, river basin organizations, basin council members/water management authorities, CA climate change NGO network, local communities, space research institutes, local, regional, and central governments, private associations linked to climate and risk management systems, financial intermediaries and community response facilitators, Individuals/Entrepreneurs and SMEs