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This note describes the role of the World Bank's SFRARR Program in resilience building in Central Asia through quantifying disaster risks, exposure mapping, and establishing fundamental awareness and capacities around disaster risk management and finance.

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Policies and plans

Turkmenistan’s revised nationally determined contribution covers adaptation priorities with a focus on health, agriculture, water, soil and land, forestry, and ecosystems.

Turkmenistan - government
Update

Hydrometeorological Service under the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment Protection of Turkmenistan is a key organization that provides support in adaptation planning of very important but vulnerable to climate change sectors of the national economy.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
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This publication examines risks from flooding and earthquakes in the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) region. It assesses the protection gap and identifies ways of strengthening financing.

Asian Development Bank (ADB)
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Documents and publications

This disaster risk profile for Turkmenistan collats information on flood, earthquake and infectious disease exposure, hazards, physical and social vulnerability, coping capacity, historical losses and impacts, and risk analysis.

Central Asian Regional Economic Cooperation Program
Turkmenistan IWG for DRR
Press release

With the support of the European Union, the Government of Turkmenistan and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) convened a high-level meeting with the members of the newly established Interagency Working Group for Disaster Risk Reduction.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Europe & Central Asia
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This study provides a review of infectious disease risk financing schemes to draw lessons and recommend solutions for the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) member countries.

Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Central Asian Regional Economic Cooperation Program
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Policies and plans

The National Strategy of Turkmenistan on Climate Change represents the national vision of climate change issues and is the basis for the development and implementation of Turkmenistan's state policy on climate change and its consequences.

Turkmenistan - government

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