Tajikistan: key priorities for climate change adaptation
Policy research working paper 5487:
This paper argues that for developing countries like Tajikistan, faster economic and social development is the best possible defence against climate change. It identifies four key sectors considered by the government's latest poverty reduction strategy as being especially important from a climate change perspective: (i) better management of water resources; (ii) disaster management, including disaster risk reduction measures to cost-effectively mitigate the negative impacts of weather extremes; (iii) agriculture; and (iv) public health.
It presents some key findings from a recent nationally representative household survey to illustrate the strong public support for more climate change related spending on these sectors. Finally, the paper concludes that, as important as project-based adaptation measures may be, it is imperative that they be supported by an overall policy framework that provides a truly enabling environment to facilitate faster climate change adaptation.