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Environment and Sustainable Development |
 UNDP Country Office supports the national government in achieving environmental goals through assistance in developing environmental policies and promoting best practices in water and sanitation. UNDP Country Office has been quite successful in assisting the national government to develop Turkmenistan’s capacity to monitor and report on environmental threats. The UNDP projects in this area focus on promoting the revival of degraded land though better land-use techniques, the protection of nature reserves as well as addressing climate change by supporting energy efficiency initiatives and carbon markets. UNDP Country Office also supports integrated water resource management and regional initiatives such as the Caspian Environment Programme, which work on solutions to environmental problems that threaten more than one country.
Projects: | | | | | Creating necessary conditions for efficient participation of key stakeholders in improved land management schemes in selected project areas |  | | | Support to protection of Turkmenistan’s globally significant biodiversity by strengthening the sustainability of its National System of Protected Areas |  | | Support to Stronger Environmental Governance in Turkmenistan
|  | | To create the enabling environment for the establishment of a functional, effective and ecologically coherent system of protected areas for Turkmenistan |  | | - Improving Energy Efficiency in the Residential Building Sector of Turkmenistan (Initial phase)
The initial phase will produce several outcomes: (i) baseline data collection and information gap analysis; (ii) institutional capacity assessment for promotion of energy efficiency in the residential sector; (iii) stakeholder analysis and stakeholder involvement plan; (iv) design of demonstration projects | | | - Strengthening the Policy Framework for Sustainable and Rational Use of Energy and Alternative/Renewable Sources of Energy
Assessment of capacity development needs of key stakeholders in the energy sector of Turkmenistan; drafting a law on rational use of energy and renewable sources of energy; and development of a National strategy and action plan on sustainable energy
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