The Project for Supporting Self-Reliance through Climate Resilient Agriculture in the Aral Sea Region

Project Summary:

The Project aims at increasing self-reliance of people in the targeted communities by introducing climate resilient agricultural practices and social infrastructure. The Project uses the Human Security programmatic framework to address multiple human insecurities faced by population of the Aral Sea region. It will use the top-down protection and bottom-up empowerment principles. It will address the food, economic and social security needs of population affected by the Aral Sea disaster, whose resilience is further at risk due to the climate shocks, chronic water deficit and increased food prices due to the ongoing global and regional food price volatility. Relying on UNDP and other partners’ experiences, the Project will identify and advance efficient and innovative solutions in agriculture through the use of alternative energy sources, using Japanese methods of product and business development as well as improving access to clean drinking water in remote climate risk communities.

Direct beneficiaries: population of the 4 northern districts of Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan (Hodjeli, Chimbay, Kegeyli, and Nukus districts), over 376,000 women and men.

Indirect beneficiaries: 1.9 M residents.

Main objectives:

The programme has the following two objectives:

Objective 1: Address food and economic security of the vulnerable women and men and increase their self-reliance through promoting climate-resilient innovative agriculture practices at the household/farm levels.

Objective 2: Strengthen adaptive capacities and resilience to climate change in the most suffered communities in Aral Sea region.