Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (27 December, 2011) – A 7.5 km long road between Kok-Bulak and Ashuu-Tor and 10 bridges were reconstructed the village Tort-Kul of Tong district of Issyk-Kul province. UNDP Disaster Risk Management Programme provided 225 000 soms for implementation of these projects. Along with local rescue teams, reconstruction works also engaged members of vulnerable households who received food for their work from UNWFP. 202 members of vulnerable households received a total of 27.5 tons of wheat flour and vegetable oil.
According to, Tilek Bekturganov, project coordinator, the road Kok-Bulak-Ashuu-Tor was abandoned since the collapse of the Soviet Union and as a result the road degraded badly.
Local farmers lost access to a distant Syrt Valley pastures (25000 ha) and were not able to take their livestock for summer grazing. This year, after the road was reconstructed, over 30 farmers were able to take 15000 of small livestock and around 8000 cows, horses and yak to this pasture. Tilek Beturganov also informed that these pasture are also used by farmers of two neighboring village districts: Kun-Chygysh and Bolot Mambetov.
The same methodology was used to construct river bank protection walls in Kara-Soo and Tuura-Soo villages of Tort-Kul village district.
UNDP helped Tort-Kul village district establish its own rescue team comprised of 25 members. They were trained on assessment of risks, vulnerability and capacity; mapping of risks, early warning, first aid and design of mitigation projects. The training was conducted in cooperation with the District Commission on Civil Defense with support of UNDP.
In 2011 UNDP Disaster Risk Management Programme implemented 20 small-scale mitigation projects in the most vulnerable communities of Kyrgyzstan. All projects were aimed at reducing the risks to natural disasters. Total cost of the projects implemented in six provinces of Kyrgyzstan, namely, in Batken, Osh, Jalal-Abad, Chui, Issyk-Kul and Naryn was around 8.9 million KGS, of which contribution of UNDP was 4.2 million (47%). These projects benefited 49,000 people.
UNDP in partnership with the UNWFP implemented a number of public works activities in 2010: 70 projects through the “cash for work” and “food for work” programs. As a result, the projects helped restore 225 km of infrastructures, construct 2 pedestrian bridges and 4 automobile bridges. These projects benefited 38000 households.
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