Tajikistan is one of the most climate-vulnerable countries in Central Asia, where droughts, floods, heatwaves, landslides, and glacial retreat threaten rural communities whose livelihoods depend on climate-sensitive agriculture and water resources. These impacts fall hardest on households experiencing food insecurity, with women, youth, and people with disabilities often facing the greatest risks. Although national frameworks such as the National Adaptation Plan provide a basis for adaptation, climate risks are not yet adequately integrated into local planning, investment, and service delivery, leaving local responses reactive, fragmented, and underfunded.The project addresses these gaps by strengthening district-level adaptation planning and translating national adaptation priorities into locally identified adaptation investments. It combines institutional capacity-building, climate risk-informed District Adaptation Plans, and improved climate information services with investments in climate-resilient water management, climate-smart technologies, value-added processing, stronger market linkages, and livelihood diversification, particularly for women.The project is expected to affect around 73,500 people directly – almost half of which are women – and to benefit 205,000 indirectly. It will capture and share lessons through knowledge platforms to support replication and scaling. By shifting Tajikistan from reactive crisis management toward proactive, climate-resilient development, the project supports vulnerable communities and reinforces country ownership while advancing GCF’s strategic priorities on food systems and the strengthening of national and subnational adaptation planning.

Improving climate resilience of vulnerable communities and enabling conditions for local climate action in Tajikistan

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Gender action plan for FP308: Improving climate resilience of vulnerable communities and enabling conditions for local climate action in Tajikistan

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An aim to achieve a quantifiable outcome within a given time-frame, set by an institution such as a national government.

Policy instruments are techniques or tools used by governing authorities to promote certain policies in order to achieve predetermined goals. Put simply, instruments are how a government tries to achieve its goals, with this taxonomy being focused on national policy instruments.

Risk is the potential for adverse consequences resulting from the dynamic interplay between (climate-related) hazards, exposure, and vulnerability of affected human or ecological systems.

Groups  of people who are adversely affected by climate change or the response to it

A set of principles, processes, and practices that build economic and political power to shift from an extractive economy to a regenerative economy.

Justice is the ethical and political framework that addresses fairness, including issues of responsibility, rights, and structural inequity.

Renewable energy means all forms of energy produced from renewable sources in a sustainable manner.

Fossil fuel is a generic term for non-renewable energy sources such as coal, fossil gas, and oil (including crude oil, and petroleum products), that can be used for electricity and heat generation. Fossil fuels are hydrocarbons formed from pressurised and heated organic material buried over millions of years.

Molecules in the atmosphere that play a key role in the greenhouse effect by trapping heat radiating from Earth’s surface.

Area of the economy in which actors engage in identical or related activities.

In human systems, the process of adjustment to actual or expected climate change and its effects, in order to moderate harm, increase resilience or exploit beneficial opportunities. In natural systems, the process of adjustment to actual climate change and its effects; human intervention may facilitate adjustment to expected climate change and its effects.

The management and allocation of funds, assets and investments to meet various objectives

People who are less able to respond to the effects of climate change due to having limited financial or physical assets

Financial actors and resources that are primarily directed towards climate change mitigation, adaptation and compensation.

Dedicated pool of financial resources for climate-related projects.

Conditions that enhance the feasibility of adaptation options. Enabling conditions include finance, technological innovation, strengthening policy instruments, institutional capacity, multi-level governance and changes in human behaviour and lifestyles.

Actions and measures to adapt and increase resilience of societies and the economy to climate change.

People with different national or cultural traditions from the dominant population

Work that is productive and delivers a fair income, security in the workplace and social protection for all, better prospects for personal development and social integration, freedom for people to express their concerns, organize and participate in the decisions that affect their lives and equality of opportunity.

Social and cultural groups that share collective ancestral ties to the lands and natural resources where they live, occupy or from which they have been displaced

woman and genders outside of the gender binary

the fair distribution of risks and opportunities of climate change and the transition to a regenerative economy, cognisant in particular of disproportionate impacts on vulnerable communities and the working class

Procedural justice means ensuring that decision making is safe, transparent and inclusive, emphasizing the agency and influence of vulnerable groups and those most impacted.

Climate change impacts our society by disrupting the natural, economic and social systems we depend on. Physical hazards and underlying vulnerabilities can lead to increased resource competition for food and water, which can heighten the risk of conflict.