Background

The Central Asian region has a complex risk profile, with growing impacts of climate change, high environmental degradation, and pollution, conflicts, as well as new and emerging security risks and threats. The population of the region, especially in urban areas, is highly exposed to the impacts of these hazards, and urbanization is outpacing risk reduction and adaptation efforts of governments in the region. 
 

Objectives

The overall objective of the project is to support Central Asian countries in building climate resilience, particularly in urban areas, by boosting urban resilience to disaster and climate-driven risks. This will be achieved through enhancing regional cooperation and partnership via existing coordination platforms and introducing innovative approaches in urban planning, drawing on practical experiences from other countries, including Japan. 
The project aims to foster sustainable and resilient futures by utilizing regional collaborative mechanisms and national transformational strategies, focusing on the following components:
Output 1: Regional collaborative mechanism for urban resilience established. 
Output 2: Transformative risk governance for urban resilience defined. 
Output 3: Innovative adaptation and risk reduction measures piloted in urban settings.
 

Approach

New approaches to integrated climate and disaster risk assessment will transform urban planning from resilience lenses, while considering future intensity and magnitude of natural hazards due to the changing climate. Knowledge base and capacity building efforts will be institutionalized in the region to ensure sustainability of interventions beyond the project cycle. The project promotes a people-centred, gender sensitive and climate risk-informed holistic approach to break siloes in urban planning efforts.