ANNEX 1
List of Regional Projects Proposals
Directions
Themes
1. Integrated use 1.1. Information
of water
system
resources
improvement,
including
hydromet
modernization,
data base
development,
development of
united
methodology for
water demand
forecast
Reference
number
Project
proposals
Countries
participating
in the project
1.1.1
Water and economic
development: demand
management
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
1.1.2
Improvement of database and
simulation models for
transboundary water resources
management
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
1.1.2*
Improvement of database and
simulation models for water
resources management
Tajikistan
1.1.3
Capacity building for
Kazakhstan
improved management of
Kyrgyzstan
transboundary water resources Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
1.1.4
Improvement of irrigation
infrastructure monitoring
system
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
1.1.5
Improvement of Hydrometeorological monitoring
system
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
1.1.6
Improvement of monitoring
system for irrigated lands
Kazakhstan
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
1.1.6*
Improvement of monitoring
system for groundwater levels
and pressures
Kyrgyzstan
Development of national and
regional approach to using
water
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
1.2. Application of 1.2.1
integrated water
resources
management
(IWRM)
* - alternative projects, proposed by the interested countries
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principles,
1.2.2
including
development of
national and
regional vision to
water use, basin
1.2.3
plans, water
quality protection,
manuals and
strategies for
efficient water use,
improvement of
1.2.4
water resources
management at all
levels
Integrated water resources
Kazakhstan
management to meeting needs Kyrgyzstan
of water users
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Strengthening capacity of
Water users associations
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Rehabilitation of irrigated
lands
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
1.2.5
Rehabilitation of water
facilities
Kazakhstan
Tajikistan
Uzbekistan
1.2.6*
Development of preliminary
feasibility studies for
construction of reservoirs for
seasonal and long-term
regulation in the Aral Sea
Basin
Tajikistan
1.3. Dam Safety
1.3.1
Ensuring dam safety
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
1.4 Natural
Disaster Risk
Management
1.4.1
Strengthening regional
capacity for disaster risk
reduction in Central Asia
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Reforestation in the Aral Sea
Basin
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Sustainable development and
management of wetlands to
reduce desertification and
restore biodiversity
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
2.Environmenal 2.1.Environmental 2.1.1
Protection
protection,
including
assistance in
implementation of
Kyoto Protocol
2.1.2
and climate
change adaptation
measures
* - alternative projects, proposed by the interested countries
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2.1.3
Regional Program for
biological resources protection
in the mountainous areas of
Central Asia
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
2.1.3*
Regional Program for
protection of mountain
ecosystems and biological
resources in the runoff
formation zone
Tajikistan
2.1.4
Integrated management of
Kazakhstan
Syrdarya and Amudarya deltas Kyrgyzstan
for biodiversity conservation
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Development of regional
Kazakhstan
environmental indicators and Kyrgyzstan
environmental information
Tajikistan
system
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
2.1.5
2.1.6
Reduction of greenhouse gas
emissions and increase of
carbon dioxide absorption in
the Aral Sea Basin
2.1.6*
Reduction of greenhouse gas
Tajikistan
emissions in the Aral Sea Basin
2.1.7
Evaluation of snowpack,
distribution of the solar
radiation and radiation balance
in the mountainous areas of
Central Asia
Natural disaster risk reduction
in mountainous areas
2.1.8
2.1.9
2.2.1
* - alternative projects, proposed by the interested countries
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Man-made disaster risk
Kazakhstan
reduction in mountainous areas Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Establishment of regional
Kazakhstan
biological diversity monitoring Kyrgyzstan
system
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
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2.2. Biodiversity
management
2.2.2.
2.2.3
3. Socioeconomic
development
3.1. Sustainable
socio-economic
development
3.2. Water supply,
sanitation and
health
3.1.1
3.1.2
Improvement of grazing lands
in the
Aral Sea basin
3.1.3
Use of renewable energy in
rural areas
3.1.4
Use of renewable energy in
runoff formation zone
Improving access to drinking
water for rural population
3.2.1
3.2.2
3.3. Assistance in 3.3.1
the improvement of
education system
4. Improvement
of institutional
and legal
mechanisms
4.1. Institutional
development and
legal base support
for regional
Conservation of flora
endangered species and
publication of the Red Book of
Wild Flora of the Aral Sea
basin
Preservation of fauna
endangered species and
publication of the Red Book of
Wild Fauna of the Aral Sea
basin
Increasing employment in rural
areas
4.1.1
* - alternative projects, proposed by the interested countries
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Tajikistan
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Improving quality of medical Kazakhstan
healthcare for rural population Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Improvement of education in Kazakhstan
rural areas
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Improving the organizational Kazakhstan
structure and the legal
Kyrgyzstan
framework of IFAS
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
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cooperation
4.1.1*
Strengthening the capacity of
IFAS regional bodies in order
to improve water resources
management in the region
4.1.2
National and regional dialogues Kazakhstan
on Water Conventions
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Assistance to strengthening
Kazakhstan
cooperation in Central Asia in Kyrgyzstan
the field of safety of hydraulic Tajikistan
facilities. Preparation of the
Turkmenistan
Agreement on the safety of
Uzbekistan
hydraulic facilities
4.1.3
4.1.4
Uzbekistan
Support of the projects aimed at
establishing basin water
councils for
Amudarya and Syrdarya
Strengthening cooperation
among the Central Asian states
via transition to integrated
water resources management
and establishment of basin
water councils for Amudarya
and Syrdarya
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Turkmenistan
4.2. The
4.2.1
development of
mutually acceptable
mechanism on
integrated use of
water resources and
environmental
4.2.2
protection in
Central Asia taking
into account the
interests of all
states in the region
Economic assessment of
integrated use of water
resources in Central Asia
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
4.3. Capacity
building on
cooperation and
public awareness
Legal and institutional support
for establishment of
informational system (network)
and databases for the Aral Sea
basin and monitoring of
ASBP-3
4.1.4*
4.3.1
* - alternative projects, proposed by the interested countries
Tajikistan
Adaptation of water
Kazakhstan
infrastructure to climate change Kyrgyzstan
in Central Asia
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
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4.3.2
4.3.3
4.3.4
4.3.5
4.3.6
4.3.7
Improvement of regional
Kazakhstan
training system for water sector Kyrgyzstan
staff
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Improvement of regional
Kazakhstan
training system for hydroKyrgyzstan
meteorological services staff in Tajikistan
Central Asia
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Support to training staff
Kazakhstan
responsible for safety of
Kyrgyzstan
hydraulic facilities in Central Tajikistan
Asia
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Strengthening capacity of IFAS Kazakhstan
executive bodies
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Institutional support on
Kazakhstan
periodical publications of IFAS Kyrgyzstan
bodies
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Establishment of educational Kazakhstan
and methodical base on
Kyrgyzstan
promoting respectful attitude to Turkmenistan
water
Uzbekistan
4.3.7*
Education towards respectful
attitude to water
Tajikistan
4.3.8
Public awareness raising
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
* - alternative projects, proposed by the interested countries
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