Forward from: World Bank Uzbekistan
🌐🇰🇿🇰🇬🇹🇯🇹🇲🇺🇿 In Astana, Kazakhstan, the 12th meeting of the Working Group of the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea (IFAS) concluded its work. The meeting was held with the support of the IFAS Executive Committee and the World Bank under the #CentralAsia #Water and #Energy Program (#CAWEP).
🤝 For the first time since gaining independence, representatives of government bodies and experts from #Kazakhstan, the #KyrgyzRepublic, #Tajikistan, #Turkmenistan, and #Uzbekistan, responsible for water, energy, environmental, and financial issues, participated together in the discussions.
✅ During the two-day meeting, experts reviewed ways to improve the efficiency of IFAS activities, exchanged experiences on integrated water and energy resource management, and considered mechanisms to strengthen regional cooperation on water resource use.
📘 The results of the discussions and the recommendations adopted will be submitted for decision-making to the members of the IFAS Board, whose meeting will be held on September 18, 2024, in Astana.
💧⚡️ The Central Asia Water and Energy Program (CAWEP) is a partnership between the World Bank, the European Union, Switzerland (through SECO), and the United Kingdom that works to improve the enabling environment for regional cooperation on water and energy security in Central Asia under a changing climate.
🔎 Learn more about the CAWEP: https://www.worldbank.org/en/region/eca/brief/cawep
🤝 For the first time since gaining independence, representatives of government bodies and experts from #Kazakhstan, the #KyrgyzRepublic, #Tajikistan, #Turkmenistan, and #Uzbekistan, responsible for water, energy, environmental, and financial issues, participated together in the discussions.
✅ During the two-day meeting, experts reviewed ways to improve the efficiency of IFAS activities, exchanged experiences on integrated water and energy resource management, and considered mechanisms to strengthen regional cooperation on water resource use.
📘 The results of the discussions and the recommendations adopted will be submitted for decision-making to the members of the IFAS Board, whose meeting will be held on September 18, 2024, in Astana.
💧⚡️ The Central Asia Water and Energy Program (CAWEP) is a partnership between the World Bank, the European Union, Switzerland (through SECO), and the United Kingdom that works to improve the enabling environment for regional cooperation on water and energy security in Central Asia under a changing climate.
🔎 Learn more about the CAWEP: https://www.worldbank.org/en/region/eca/brief/cawep