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In January, 1994, top authorities of Central Asia countries adopted “The Programme of Actions for the nearest 3-5 years on improvement of environment situation in the Aral Sea  Basin taking into account social and economic development of the region (basic directions)” (ASBP-1). UNDP, UNEP, the World Bank, GEF, EBRD, ABRD, TASIS, German Fund, Kuwait Fund (EBRA), USAID and other international organizations together with experts and scientists from Central Asia countries took part in preparation of the Programme. The basic goals of the Programme were the following:

• Stabilization of environment situation in the Aral Sea Basin;

• Rehabilitation of disturbed ecosystems of the Aral Sea region;

• Improvement of methods of water and land resources control in the basin;

• Establishment of administrative structures of all levels for planning and implementation of actions of the Programme.

Measures in the framework of the Programme were divided into 2 stages. Duration of the preparatory stage was identified as 3- 5 years with financial support of 30 million $ USA. The period of 10-15 years were fixed for implementation of the second stage. The cost of the second stage were valued at 500-570 million  $ USA.  The Programme included eight components based on project concepts:

Project 1.1       Regional Water Resources Management Strategy.

Project 1.2       Sustainability of Dams and Reservoir Management.

Project 2.1       Hydro meteorological Services.

Project 2.2       Regional Environmental Information System.

Project 3.1       Water Quality Management.

Project 3.2       Uzbekistan Drainage.

Project 4.1       Wetland Restoration.

Project 4.2       Restoration of Northern Part of the Aral Sea.

Project 4.3       Environmental Studies in the Aral Sea Basin.

Project 4.4       Syr Darya Control and Delta Development Project.

Project 5.1       Clean Water, Sanitation and Health – Uzbekistan.

Project 5.2       Clean Water, Sanitation and Health – Turkmenistan.

Project 5.3       Clean Water, Sanitation and Health – Kazakhstan.

Project 5.4       Medium-term Water Supply.

Project 6          Integrated Land and Water Management in the Upper Watersheds.

Project 7          Operational Water Resources Management.

Project 8          Capacity Building.

After implementation in 1997 of the basic part of actions of the preliminary stage, Central Asia countries and International organizations-donors of the Programme, conducted the joint review of the running state of Programme implementation and recommended the following actions to be implemented at the second stage:

• to focus attempts on implementation of quick-response-projects for the purpose to receive powerful backing from Central Asia countries;

• to identify the most obvious results of the projects;

• to develop on country and region levels a coordinated policy and plans of actions on water and natural resource management as an object of reduction by 15 per cent of water quantities diverted from Amu Darya and Syr Darya;

• to strengthen activity with community and population, to create conditions for improvement of the policy in this direction.

At the same time, analysis of Programme implementation is evidence of the fact, that the basic limiting factor of foliature in complete implementation of a number of programmes and projects is not only lack of financing, but inadequate level of intersectional coordination and poor control of project implementation by IFAS executive bodies.

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