PIMS-6301 PPG Support to Chu-Talas Basin Strategic Action Programme Implementation

About this project

The project will strengthen transboundary water security and climate resilience in Chu Talas shared river basins, which are strategically important to both Kazakhstan and the Kyrgyz Republic, as they underpin irrigated agriculture, rural livelihoods, and water security in a densely used transboundary basin that supports more than 3 million people. The project will do so by addressing three persistent barriers: (i) weak transboundary institutional mandate, coordination, monitoring, and operational capacity for basin-wide management; (ii) inadequate demonstration, uptake, and replication of practical measures to reduce irrigation losses and strengthen ecosystem resilience in priority hotspots; and (iii) fragmented and insufficiently bankable follow-on investments for scaling irrigation efficiency and wastewater/pollution reduction measures. The project responds to major transboundary threats identified in the basin, including chronic water scarcity driven by very high irrigation demand and high conveyance losses, deterioration of water quality from untreated or poorly treated municipal, industrial, and drainage discharges, degradation of riparian, floodplain, wetland, and upper-catchment ecosystems due to over-abstraction and poor land and water management, and increasing climate risks from hotter temperatures, greater runoff variability, droughts, floods, and glacier decline.

Goals

Sustainable Development Goals this project works towards

• 1No Poverty
• 2Zero Hunger
• 7Affordable and Clean Energy

Published by

United Nations Development Programme · Multilateral

Countries

Kyrgyzstan

Sectors

River basins development

Funded by

Global Environment Fund Truste

Implemented by

UNDP

Accountable

UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

Published by United Nations Development Programme to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 5 Oct 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: XM-DAC-41114-PROJECT-01006105.

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