Steering Committee Meeting in Turkmenistan: Effective Solutions for Building Resilience to Climate Change
On 25 February, the second meeting the Second Steering Committee Meeting of the “EU for a green Turkmenistan: Policy Dialogue and Climate Action for 2024–2028” project took place in the Conference Hall of the Natural Gas Research Institute in Ashgabat. The EU funded project is implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH as […]
Supporting the Kafirnigan River Basin Women’s Forum
In order to build the capacity of the members of the Kafirnigan River Basin Women’s Forum, a training on irrigation and crop irrigation systems was organised and conducted in Dushanbe on 20 February with the support of GIZ’s Green Central Asia II programme. The main objective of the training was to train women in efficient […]
Strengthening transboundary cooperation in water resources management in Central Asia
On 12-13 February 2025, Tashkent, Uzbekistan hosted a regional workshop for Central Asian countries on SDG indicator 6.5.2 and the sharing of experiences in using reporting as a tool for transboundary cooperation. The regional workshop was organised to ensure the exchange of best practices in the preparation and use of reporting on SDG indicator 6.5.2 […]
Germany releases a first ever National Climate Risk Estimate (NiKE)
This is the first time that German climate scientists, intelligence community and military strategists have come together to assess the risks climate presents – for German and European national security, and globale stability. Scientists, intelligence experts, and military strategists all agree: the climate crisis constitutes an existential security threat, as outlined in a new report. Tackling […]
Invitation to the first forum of the CCFLA Central Asia Hub on scaling up and financing projects for zero-carbon buildings in Central Asia in Tashkent
On 18-19 February, the first forum of the CCFLA (Climate Cities Finance Leadership Alliance) Central Asia Local Hub will be held in Tashkent. The main objective of the event is to discuss the programme of decarbonisation of urban construction in Central Asia at regional and national levels, as well as to promote the preparation of […]
The role of women in the water sector in Tajikistan
On 31 January 2025, members of the Secretariat of the Basin Women’s Forum in the Kafirnigan River Basin met in Dushanbe with the support of the ‘Green Central Asia, Phase II’ programme implemented by GIZ The purpose of the meeting was to identify priority areas for the 5th Kafarnigan Basin Women’s Forum and to discuss […]
Partner Dialogue in action
On 23 January, a Partner Dialogue meeting was held in Tashkent to strengthen cooperation by involving all stakeholders, including national partners and international development organisations. The Amu Darya and Syr Darya River Basin Dialogue brought together policy and implementation partners, members of the Project Management Committee and representatives of projects focusing on water resources management, […]
Second meeting of the Syr Darya River Basin Dialogue
On January 22, 2025, the Second meeting of the Syr Darya River Basin Dialogue commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and co-financed by the EU and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), was held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. “Collaboration on shared water resources like the Syr Darya River […]
39th meeting of the Balkhash-Alakol Basin Council in Kazakhstan
In the process of implementation of the project ‘Climate-sensitive water resources management in Central Asia’ in the field of national water use, in December 2024, comprehensive support was provided to the 39th regular meeting of the Balkhash-Alakol Basin Council in Almaty, Kazakhstan,where the following main issues were discussed – Preparation for the 2025 flood season […]
KAZENERGY and GIZ discuss cooperation in the field of renewable energy and carbon neutrality
A meeting was held at the KAZENERGY Association between the General Director of the Association Zhandos Nurmaganbetov and the head of the project “Renewable Energy Sources in Central Asia” of the German development agency GIZ Sven Ernedal. During the meeting, a wide range of issues related to the development of the energy sector in Kazakhstan […]
