By Olimjon Saidmamatov, Urgench State University, held at in Green-Win Conference in Barcelona, 13-14 March 2018.

By Isabel Pasternack, Susanne Schmeier and Tina Schmiers. The second Executive Steering Committee Meeting of the Nexus Regional Dialogues Programme took place in Brussels on the 1-2 Mar 2018. The general objective of the meeting was to present the outcomes and impacts of the activities within the different regional dialogues, to discuss challenges and common issues as well as to find entry points and synergies to improve and strengthen cooperation and collaboration among the different regions...

On 13 March 2018 the Regional Working Group held its first meeting. The main topic of discussion was multi-sectoral cooperation in the context of the Aral Sea Basin Programme (ASBP). The event was held in the framework of the EU-funded project “Central Asia Nexus Dialogue: Fostering Water, Energy and Food Security Nexus Dialogue and Multi-Sector Investment ”, Nexus. It is implemented by CAREC and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The ultimate task of the Regional Working...

Interview with Benjamin Pohl: "The costs of the status quo of water management in Central Asia are very significant, but we can currently observe a lot of progress and optimism on water cooperation in the region."

Starting in 2014, GIZ on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) started to implement Nexus Regional Dialogue activities. This included five regional dialogues and Nexus Resource Platform as faciliation and dissemination tool.

By Saltanat Zhakenova. This paper is the second in a series on the Nexus in Central Asia. It discusses how to achieve water, energy, food and environmental security.

Цель встречи: в рамках подготовки ко второму Центрально-Азиатскому Международному Экологическому Форуму обсудить возможности, которые дает межсекторальное взаимодействие для подготовки инвестиционных проектов, а также запустить региональный механизм координации соответствующего проекта.

The goal of the meeting in Tashkent/Uzbekistan will be the preparation for the Second Central Asian International Environmental Forum. The participants will discuss the opportunities, which are provided by intersectoral cooperation for the preparation of investment projects, and to launch a regional coordination mechanism for the Nexus Dialogue in Central Asia.

Цель встречи: обсудить возможности, которые дает межсекторальное взаимодействие для подготовки инвестиционных проектов, а также запустить межсекторальный механизм для разработки проектных предложений в Туркменистане. Главная задача проекта: развитие благоприятных возможностей для многосекторального климатически-устойчивого инвестирования с целью усиления водной, энергетической и продовольственной безопасности в Центральной Азии.

The goal of the meeting: to discuss the opportunities, which are provided by intersectoral cooperation for the preparation of investment projects, and to launch an intersectoral mechanism for developing the project proposals in Turkmenistan for the project “Central Asia Nexus Dialogue: Fostering Water, Energy and Food Security Nexus Dialogue and Multi-Sector Investment”. The main objective of the Project is the development of a multi-sector enabling environment to facilitate sustainable and...