DUSHANBE, October 9, 2012, Asia-Plus – Organized by the EU funded project “Targeted Awareness Raising for Enhanced Partnership between European Union and Central Asia” (AWARE), a national two-day seminar formally titled “Raising Awareness on Shared Environmental Information System” is taking place in Dushanbe on October 11.
Ms. Malika Bobojonova, director of the branch of Regional Environmental Center for Central Asia in Dushanbe, says the seminar will bring together experts of ministries and agencies responsible for environmental data collection and information dissemination, representatives of international, non-governmental organizations, as well as experts from other Central Asian countries to discuss the perspectives of the implementation of the Shared Environmental Information System in Central Asia.
According to her, the AWARE project will give a special presentation for the overall objectives and goals in Central Asia and its implementation plans in Tajikistan.
Besides, representatives of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan will share experience on environmental data collection and dissemination.
According to the Delegation of the European Union to Tajikistan, the Raising Awareness Project is designed for two years (2012-2014) and will be implemented in five countries of Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.
The project is implemented in order: to increase awareness on return- and reused waters addressing gaps in water resources management; to enhance opportunities for EU-CA cooperation on environmental governance through promoting the most practices such as Shared Environmental Information System; and to increase involvement of private sector in sustainable consumption and production and energy efficiency as a gateway for Public-Private Partnership.
The total amount of project’s budget is 950,000 euros.
