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Tajikistan

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Tajikistan is one of the most climate-vulnerable countries in Central Asia, where droughts, floods, heatwaves, landslides, and glacial retreat threaten rural communities whose livelihoods depend on climate-sensitive agriculture and water resources. These impacts fall hardest on households experiencing food insecurity, with women, youth, and people with disabilities often facing the greatest risks. Although national frameworks such as the National Adaptation Plan provide a basis for adaptation, climate risks are not yet adequately integrated into local planning, investment, and service delivery, leaving local responses reactive, fragmented, and underfunded.The project addresses these gaps by strengthening district-level adaptation planning and translating national adaptation priorities into locally identified adaptation investments. It combines institutional capacity-building, climate risk-informed District Adaptation Plans, and improved climate information services with investments in climate-resilient water management, climate-smart technologies, value-added processing, stronger market linkages, and livelihood diversification, particularly for women.The project is expected to affect around 73,500 people directly – almost half of which are women – and to benefit 205,000 indirectly. It will capture and share lessons through knowledge platforms to support replication and scaling. By shifting Tajikistan from reactive crisis management toward proactive, climate-resilient development, the project supports vulnerable communities and reinforces country ownership while advancing GCF’s strategic priorities on food systems and the strengthening of national and subnational adaptation planning.

In the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan, rising temperatures, glacier retreat, and more frequent droughts, floods, and landslides are putting greater strain on water infrastructure and the reliable delivery of water services. Water utilities face operational and financial pressures while lacking the institutional capacity to plan and invest in a changing climate. Existing approaches are often reactive and are not designed to address the growing climate risks.RWS4All will introduce a structured, climate-informed "deep adaptation pathways" approach organised around three lines of work: strengthen policy, regulatory, and institutional frameworks to integrate climate risk into water sector planning and governance; support water utilities to assess climate risks, identify vulnerabilities, and develop adaptation pathways to guide investment decision-making; and finance priority climate-resilient water infrastructure investments identified through those adaptation pathways.It is expected to benefit around 621,100 people directly and 1.2 million indirectly. By integrating climate risk into sector decision-making it supports a shift from reactive rehabilitation to anticipatory, system-level adaptation in how water services are planned, financed, and managed.Implemented by EBRD, the project contributes to GCF's strategic priorities by advancing the implementation of national climate plans, strengthening climate-resilient infrastructure, and supporting adaptation.

Central and West Asia are among the fastest-warming regions, with temperatures rising by 0.2–0.4°C per decade. Glacier systems in the Pamir and Tien Shan ranges are retreating rapidly; projections indicate over 50 per cent of glacier volume could be lost by 2100. This cryosphere meltdown is disrupting water cycles, threatening the livelihoods and food security of over 340 million people across nine countries. The most vulnerable are women, smallholder farmers, and micro-entrepreneurs who depend on glacier-fed rivers for crops and hydropower. Without urgent intervention, communities risk worsening poverty, displacement, and instability.The Glaciers to Farms (G2F) Programme responds to this crisis by integrating climate science into development planning and deploying concrete adaptation measures in glacier-dependent river basins. The programme focuses 100 per cent on adaptation and aligns with national priorities, including National Adaptation Plans (NAP), Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).This project includes several components, including climate-informed planning tools, the development of bankable adaptation projects and new financing approaches such as outcome-based resilience bonds. It aims to expand capacity within Ministries of Finance, Planning and Environment to apply climate budgeting and screening tools. G2F will support the creation of infrastructure for climate finance, mentoring for agriculture enterprises, and design of cross-border pilot projects.G2F will deliver substantial, measurable improvements in climate resilience for communities and ecosystems. The programme aims to reduce the vulnerability of approximately 45 million people across nine countries by providing more stable water and food supplies, infrastructure that can withstand shocks, stronger social safety nets, and healthier ecosystems.GCF Project Preparation Facility (PPF) support was provided to conduct feasibility studies and stakeholder consultations across all nine countries, which was instrumental in refining the programme’s design.

The Sustainable and Inclusive Green Acceleration Programme (“SAIGA”; or “the Programme”) in Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Türkiye and Uzbekistan (hereafter the “focus countries”) is created to accelerate decarbonization and market transformation through adoption of climate mitigation technologies at scale by leveraging the financial sector to catalyse innovative private sector investments in line with the NDC objectives. 

The Programme will support private sector businesses, predominantly micro, small and medium enterprises (“MSMEs”) and households, as end beneficiaries , and Financial Institutions (“FIs”) as intermediaries to focus on gender-responsive climate mitigation activities, including demand-side energy efficiency (in industry, commerce and buildings) and decentralized renewable energy investments (including battery storage). 

The objective of SAIGA is to help financial intermediaries and end beneficiaries in the target countries to overcome some of the major barriers hindering the quick uptake of mitigation practices and technologies to drive decarbonisation.

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