Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (March 2, 2010) – Multi-country Capacity Building Project Inception Workshop will be held in the UN House.
The workshop is devoted to the presentation of the new GEF/UNDP Project aimed at capacity building at national and international levels for development and implementation of participatory approach and strategies on combating land degradation in frames of operational National Programming Frameworks.
The project will be implemented through a consolidated approach put in place by the five Central Asian Countries and Strategic Partnership Agreement members: UNDP, ADB, GTZ, GM, ICARDA, and FAO with Global Environment Facility (GEF) support.
This project in an integrated Multi-country initiative within the Central Asian Countries Initiative for Land Management Countries Partnership Project (CACILM CPP) and is one of four related multi-country support projects under the CACILM Multi-country Framework Project (CMPF) by contributing the system, institutional and individual capacities needed to respond to country barriers in terms of inconsistent and divergent policy environment, inadequate and inefficient resources to combat Sustainable Land Management (SLM) gaps in human capital to develop SLM programs, and a disconnect between project level successes and policy making.
The workshop will be attended by representatives from all concerned ministries and government bodies as well as international organizations representatives, involved in the process of environmental protection activities in the Central Asia.
Note: In Central Asia, presently, 24 million ha (13.2% of total) of rangelands are estimated to be degraded at different levels in Kazakhstan, 6.8 million ha (74%), in Kyrgyzstan, more than 90% of the total 3.7 million ha of rangelands in Tajikistan, 20.8 million ha (50%) in Turkmenistan, and about 10 million ha (42%) in Uzbekistan. Between 40 percent and 60 percent of irrigated croplands in Central Asia are salt-affected and/or waterlogged. In Kyrgyzstan, almost 60 percent of arable land is considered to be subject to serious soil erosion by water and wind.
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Learn more from Altynai Nanaeva at (0312) 62-36-95 or a.nanaeva@up.elcat.kg
