Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (December 28, 2011) – In 2011 UNDP Disaster Risk Management Programme helped plant 5 thousand transplants of 12 species in a forestry territory of the National Academy of Science located in Ak-Soo district of Issyk-Kul province. Local community helped to clean the forest from broken and dry woods. This helped local residents make some provision of firewood and decrease risks to forest fire.
According to the Acting Head of the Forestry Alexander Vodolazskiy total area of the farm is 1 thousand 529 hectares. Starting from 1950 on 700 hectare of the land transplants are being planted manually. For the last years high prices for coal induced local people cut the trees to stock up firewood, which caused deforestation of the area. The villagers started to regularly graze their cattle in the territory of the forestry.
Ninety eight people from vulnerable households worked in the nursery garden apart from 12 specialists of Ak-Soo forestry. They received vegetable oil and wheat flour through the UNWFP “food for work” programme. The UNDP provided material and technical support: provision of fuel for tractors to skid the forest, construction of fire-preventions blocks, reconstruction of irrigation sets, and installation of barbed wire for fencing around the nursery garden as well as cement and entrenching tools.
Activities on cleaning forests were implemented within the framework of the UNDP and UNWFP programmes. Projects on reforestation were conducted in partnership with the UNWFP in Jeti-Oguz, Kara-Kol, Issyk-Kul and Ak-Soo forestry departments and in the forestry department of the National Academy of Science of Kyrgyzstan. UNDP provided 768 700 soms, while UNWFP provided 188 tons of wheat flour and 17,7 tons of vegetable oil to 525 participants of the project.
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.
UNDP closely cooperates with people of different layers of the communities, helps to build a nation, contributes to cope with crises as well as manage and support the economic growth which improves the life quality of every person. Being present in 177 countries, we can propose global perspective and insightful understanding of local specifics to help create new opportunities and to build resilient nations.
