and “Countries in the region are supported in integrating climate risk management into the development strategies and policies�. The institutional platform for climate change at national levels as well as on the regional level is not well established, or even existent, varying from country to country in the subregion. Typically climate data is spread between climate change adaptation at the Ministry of Environment, whereas the disaster risk management is hosted at the Ministry of Emergency Situations in Central Asian countries. The climate side of available knowledge is improving, but is generally still at a moderate level. Integration of the topic in curricula at university and academia level helps to spread and profound the knowledge. Institutional platforms for CRM are either water resources focused, or disaster response and risk reduction related like the newly established Central Asian Disaster Response and Risk Reduction Centre in Almaty.100 One of the challenges that remain is to institutionalize CRM further either in existing or emerging platforms. The Central Asian Regional Risk Assessment (CARRA) project, promoting primarily the interagency dialogue in Central Asia over disaster risk issues, has promoted cross-fertilization of expertise, partnerships and coordination mechanisms, which are continuing as a new CARRA project is under elaboration that will ensure that the dialogue will continue the flow of benefits. There are positive examples from Turkey and Tajikistan for advisory services provided that are supporting government structures in integrating CRM into their policies. Among other encouraging examples is the capacity development at the Turkish Ministry of Environment and Urbanization on monitoring in general and specifically, the Climate Change Action Plan in Turkey and the support to the Government of
Tajikistan and implementing ministries. Another sustainable result is the support to GEF proposals by the E&E practice team: two new standards for energy efficiency in buildings have been recently introduced. All these initiatives have the potential to contribute to the sustainability of the projects and potentially also to a regional effect. OUTCOME 2 The outcome aims at mainstreaming environment and energy, and expanding access to E&E services for the poor. The objective is defined as the improved capacity for sustainable conservation and management of ecosystems and natural resources at the regional, national and subnational levels by 2013. Relevance The focus of the outcome is aligned with regional and country strategies, addressing the emerging needs of the region in water governance and management of ecosystems and natural resources. Under outcome 2, UNDP continues to support capacity development for countries to ensure that environment and energy issues are addressed when developing and implementing national policies, strategies and programmes, as well as when considering the inclusion of multilateral environmental agreements. This can be summarized as environmental governance. Such capacity will include the ability to conduct environmental and energy assessments and ensure broad public participation in policy articulation. UNDP will provide advice, methodologies and tools. Substantive support will be offered in combating land degradation and desertification; water governance and resource management; biodiversity and ecosystem services for development; chemical management; and energy service delivery. On land degradation and biodiversity conservation, UNDP will continue to mobilize GEF and other funding
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan established a joint centre for disaster response and risk reduction.
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