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Joint Workshop on GWP Tool ox Dissemination 30-31 July 2006, Cholpon-ata, Kyrgyz Republic Agenda (pdf, 74 kB) On 30-31 July, 2006, in Cholpon-ata (the Kyrgyz Republic) within the framework of program, prepared by the GWP CACENA and UCC Water, a joint capacity building session with participants of the regional seminar and the “Tool Box Dissemination” seminar was held. 24 specialists representing ministries and institutions of the region, as well as representatives of the international organizations participated in this seminar. Deputy minister, Director General of the Department of water resources, member of the ICWC, Mr. Baratali Koshmatov addressed the welcoming speech. In his speech he stressed the importance of strengthening cooperation of the Central Asian countries, for an efficient water resources use on the basis of transition to the IWRM. He thanked UNEP for assistance in initiating the process of preparation of the national IWRM plans. During the first day of seminar the heads and specialists of the key water managements ministries and institutions of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan, the Republic of Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan made their general presentations the “National priority interests, objectives and visions of water resources management in the environmental context and their coordination with the Regional limitations”. The main problems of the region’s water resources management in the conditions of reformation and restructuring of water management and agricultural sectors (the main water consumer in the countries of the region) and ways for coordination of the national and regional interests in the environmental context of water resources management were presented in these national reports. In the next set of reports and speeches, made by the Regional Coordinator of UCC-Water Program, Dr. P. Lindgaard-Jorgensen, chairman of the GWP CACENA, Dr. Vadim I. Sokolov, project consultant on the legal issues, Dr. Yusup Kh. Rysbekov, the sub-regional coordinator of UCC-Water Program, Mr. Michail G. Horst, and manger of UNDP project in the Republic of Kazakhstan, Mr. Alexandr Nikolaenko, it was presented:
The next set of reports was devoted to one of the actual problems for the region – establishment of the Water User Associations (WUAs). Because the major part of the region’s water resources is used in irrigated agriculture, this level of water hierarchy is very important, in the improvement of water use efficiency and water consumption productivity, and involvement of farmers in the processes of water resources management. The reports on the “Experience and problems associated with establishment of WUA, as the element of transition to the IWRM” were presented by: Mr. Erkinbek I. Kozhoev (Head of the Center for support and regulation of WUA, the Kyrgyz Republic), Dr. Rakhmankul Rakhmatilloev (Leading specialist of the Center for support of farms privatization, the Republic of Tajikistan), and Mr. Normukhammad I. Sheraliev (Head of Department of the Main Administration of Water Resources, MAWR of the Republic of Uzbekistan). This was followed by a presentation of the draft “road maps” developed by the national groups for support to transition to the IWRM. These presentations were made by: Mr. Abdybay Sh. Djailoobaev (Director of Kyrgyz Branch of SIC ICWC, the National expert to UCC-Water), Dr. Yarash Pulatov (Director General of the TajikNIIGIM, the National expert to UCC-Water), and Mr. Normukhammad I. Sheraliev (Head of Department of the Main Administration of Water Resources, MAWR of RUz, assistant of the National expert to UCC-Water). During discussions (they were continued on 30-31 July, at the joint UNEP and GWP ToolBox seminar capacity building seminar) comments and proposals on revisions of the presented draft national “road maps” were given by the participants. This comprised e.g. the necessity to stress the improvement of water use productivity, social mobilization of stakeholders, and, especially in irrigated agriculture, training for stakeholders of various levels of water hierarchy in the IWRM principles and tasks. It was proposed along with the revisions of the presented road maps to attach to them the explanatory notes/rationale for the planned short-term (2007-2008) activities and to estimate the budget to undertake the short term activities. Participant of discussion supported and endorsed the objectives and tasks of the project at its final stage of implementation and scope of the planned activities.
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