Strengthening Kyrgyzstan's Adaptive Capacity: Training on Risk Reduction and Environmental Threat Monitoring held in Cholpon-Ata

19 March, Cholpon-Ata - A training on climate change impacts, disaster risk reduction (DRR) strategies and the use of environmental monitoring tools was successfully held in Issyk-Kul region from 15 to 19 March this year.

This activity aims to strengthen the adaptive capacity of communities to glacial lake outburst floods and mudslides in Kyrgyzstan. The focus is on strengthening the national disaster monitoring system and the adaptive capacity of the pilot districts: Cholpon-Ata city and Chon-Sary-Oy and Bosteri villages.

Within the framework of the project, specialized environmental monitoring groups have been formed, whose members actively participated in the training workshop: representatives of the state administration of the Issyk-Kul district, the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Kyrgyz Republic, key specialists, deputies of the pilot districts, village heads, members of the Kyrgyz Activists Alliance, representatives of youth and women's organizations, and environmental activists.

The main objective of the training is to improve participants' knowledge of climate change impacts, DRR strategies and the use of environmental monitoring tools. It will also provide methodological support to representatives of vulnerable communities facing possible threats of mountain lake outburst and related mudslides to organize and implement independent work on risk management at the local community level for planning and implementation of sustainable development measures taking into account the impacts of disasters related to climate change.

This training is part of the UNDP project "Reducing Risks and Vulnerabilities from Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOF) and mudslides in Kyrgyzstan through Strengthening the National Disaster Monitoring System and Communities' Adaptive Capacity", which is funded by the Government of Japan. The International Public Foundation Roza Otunbaeva Initiative is implementing the third component of the project "Strengthening the Adaptive Capacity of Communities to Glacial Lake Outburst Floods and Mudslides in Kyrgyzstan".