DUSHANBE, October 12, 2012, Asia-Plus – On Thursday October 11, The EU funded project “Targeted Awareness Raising for Enhanced Partnership between European Union and Central Asia” (AWARE) hosted a national seminar “Raising Awareness on Shared Environmental Information System” in Dushanbe, the Delegation of the European Union to Tajikistan reports.
The event reportedly brought 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.
The AWARE project prepared a special presentation on the overall aims and objectives in Central Asia and its implementation plans for Tajikistan. Participants discussed the practices of Shared Environmental Information System promotion in pan-European region as well as possibilities of its implementation in Tajikistan.
The seminar reportedly gave opportunity for representatives of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to share experience on environmental data collection and dissemination.
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 projects 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, as well as to increase involvement of private sector in sustainable consumption and production and energy efficiency as a gateway for Public-Private Partnership.
