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The project is a part of the World Bank RESILAND CA+ Program, whose goal is to increase the resilience of regional landscapes in Central Asia, alongside the RESILAND CA+ projects in Tajikistan and the Kyrgyz Republic, which share similar national and regional objectives.
Strengthening regional collaboration will help manage shared resources, exploit economies of scale related to regional nature-based tourism, and facilitate collective action to address climate change impacts and other common goals. It will allow countries to come together to address challenges faced by the region, find regional solutions for these challenges, and thus promote global public goods. Regional knowledge exchange platform will allow Uzbekistan together with the other Central Asian countries to benefit from capacity-building, technical assistance and collaboration with other Central Asian governments and regional stakeholders, as well as from international experience, in addressing common environmental, land degradation, and climate change-related challenges in the region.
Overall objective / Specific objectives:
The goal of the project is to promote Uzbekistan’s collaboration with Central Asia countries on transboundary cooperation and landscape restoration, given the critical need to address emerging threats at the regional level, including the impacts of climate change.
The objective of the project is to develop and manage a regional exchange platform, bringing Central Asian countries together to conduct high-level dialog in support of the harmonization of policies on, and approaches to transboundary landscape restoration and protected natural areas management among Central Asian countries.
Target groups:
Governmental agencies involved into the RESILAND CA+ in five Central Asian countries and associated stakeholders
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RESILAND Uzbekistan. Forestry Expert Ismail Belen Joins RESILAND Uzbekistan as Nursery Strategy Consultant
TASHKENT, UZBEKISTAN – As Uzbekistan intensifies its battle against land degradation and climate change, international consultant İsmail Belen has emerged as a pivotal figure in the Uzbekistan Resilient Landscape Restoration Project (RESILAND Uzbekistan). Leveraging over three decades of experience, Belen is currently preparing nine strategic forestry nurseries across the nation, serving as the "supply backbone" for large-scale ecological restoration.
Subcomponent 1.3. Strengthen Regional Collaboration will promote Uzbekistan’s collaboration with Central Asian countries on transboundary landscape restoration by establishing a regional online database for sustainable landscape management and restoration, facilitating policy and strategy harmonization, and addressing new emerging climate threats at the regional level.
Subcomponent on Strengthening Regional Collaboration is implemented by all the RESILAND CA+ projects to achieve the Program’s regional objective, with each project financing different, yet complimentary, regional actions from which all the regional countries will benefit.
Sub-component 1.3 of the project will also support the establishment and management of a regional online database on sustainable landscape management and restoration, linked to the Central Asia Climate Information Platform (CACIP), which is managed by the Regional Environmental Centre for Central Asia. The regional online database will store and publish data and publications on sustainable landscape management and restoration, facilitating a two-way dialogue and knowledge exchange among various stakeholders on relevant subjects.
Deputy Project Team Leader: Azamat Kauazov, cacip@carececo.org