Regional Resilient Pastoral Communities Project -ADAPT

The project goal is to contribute to rural poverty alleviation in the country through increased climate resilience, incomes and gender-sensitive growth in rural farming communities. The proposed Regional Resilient Pastoral Communities Project – ADAPT promotes climate-adaptive resilience through a targeted approach to reduce rangeland and forest degradation and to actively improve the condition of these interlinked ecosystems. The project will mainstream participatory, sustainable, forest and rangeland management for the stakeholders in the forests and rangelands of Kyrgyzstan. This project upscales the lessons learned and best practices from a number of preceding projects namely the IFAD LMDP I II and ATMP projects; the World Bank / GEF – IFEMP; FAO / GEF – Sustainable management of mountainous forest and land resources under climate change conditions; the GIZ Ecosystem-based Adaptation to Climate Change in High Mountainous Regions of Central Asia; and the IFAD BALI pilot.