The overall goal of the project is contribution to more secure livelihoods, increased environmental sustainability, and greater social harmony, through improved effectiveness of water resources management in the Fergana Valley. This overall goal of the project remained unchanged for all previous phases of the project and remains valid for this phase, too.

The goal of further project development is divided into two main objectives.

Project Objectives

the objectives for this interim phase are:

1.  To improve within the project area, the financial and economic viability of the IWRM institutions up to canal level, with a special focus on the WUA’s, and exit from part of the past activities which are not anymore priorities.

2.  To ensure the long term sustainability of the project IWRM approach by defining with the respective governments, visions on ways and means to integrate the new IWRM structures and set-up in the existing national water management systems, and on the approach to be applied for the small trans-boundary tributaries, from the perspective of a possible replicating of the SDC approach at national level.