The document discusses the Central Asia Nexus Dialogue Project funded by the EU to foster water, energy, and food security in Central Asia. It provides an overview of ongoing achievements which include integrating the water-energy-food nexus into regional programs, conducting assessments and analysis, raising awareness through dialogues and capacity building, and developing an investment portfolio. It also describes ongoing demonstration projects in Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan focused on issues like reservoir sedimentation, afforestation, pumping station modernization, and institutionalizing the nexus approach in strategic documents. Potential areas of cooperation for Phase II are identified like further applying the nexus approach, institutionalizing it, out

1. Central Asia Nexus Dialogue Project: Fostering
Water Energy and Food Security Nexus and Multi-
sector Investment (Phase II)
EU funded project
“Nexus Dialogue in CA”:
potential areas for cooperation
Ludmilla Kiktenko, Nexus Project Manager,
CAREC

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European Union
Nexus Regional Dialogue Programmes Globally
Nexus Regional Dialogues
Programme
Niger Basin
Southern
Africa
Latin America
and the
Caribbean
Central Asia
Middle East
and North
Africa
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European Union
Nexus dialogues in Central Asia
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2014
Syr Darya Basin Asessment
Assessment methodology
TF under Water Convention
TF for transboundary Nexus
SPECA WG
2016
Nexus Dialogues
Pilot projects
Institualization
Investment Pipeline
Investment proposal
2020
Nexus for IWRM and
Basin management
2021
Will probably include….
WEFE Working groups
Dialogues
Attracting investments
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EU Nexus Dialogue in CA: ongoing achievements
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 WEF Nexus integrated in regional programmes: ASBP-4, REP4SD
 Evidence base:
- 8 demo-projects
- 12 assessments/ analysis
- 10 reports, 3 policy briefs
Awareness, experience:
- 42 Nexus dialogues
- Study tour to Danube and Sava River Basins;
- 14 capacity building
Cover :
- 5 CA countries
- Over 700 participants (61% men, 39% women)
- 6 pilot areas + 1 transboundary
 Investment Portfolio: 8 regional projects, 35 country projects
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 Regional decision making platform for WEFE state bodies from CA
(17 members)

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Nexus demonstration project_transboundary
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Tuyamuyun hydroelectric complex (Turkmenistan – Uzbekistan)
Timeline: April 2021 – January 2022
Status: Launched
Objective: promote regional water-energy cooperation at facility level with
accent made on sedimentation at Ruslovoye water reservoir:
Tasks:
1. Assess the amount of sedimentation in the Ruslovoye reservoir in the main area of 373 km2;
2. Make a forecast of the expected increase in the amount of sedimentation of the Ruslovoye reservoir over the next 50
years;
3. Estimate of the current annual loss of active reservoir volume and its forecast for the next decade under the BAU
scenario;
4. Assess impact of sedimentation on the distribution of water resources for the energy and irrigation needs of
Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan;
5. Develop technical recommendations on cost-effective technical solutions and innovative technical measures at
mitigating the silting process.

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European Union
Nexus Demo project_Kazakhstan
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Forestation of the dried bottom of Aral Sea: piloting the closed root system (Kazakhstan)
Timeline: November 2020 – December 2021
Status: Launched
Objective: to support the afforestation on the dried bottom of the Aral Sea
through piloting the growth of black saxaul seedlings in a closed-root system
and deduce its survival rate.
Tasks:
1. Construction of saxaul nurseries for 2 000 saxaul seedling under the closed root system (in Aralsk, Kyzylorda Oblast);
2. Planting the saxaul seedlings in the Aralkum dessert;
3. Monitoring of the survival rate and estimation of the water-energy-food resources under open root system vs. closed.

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Nexus Demo project_Tajikistan
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“Improvement of the system of control and monitoring of electricity consumption in the pumping stations and preparation
of investment proposal for the modernization of a large pumping station using energy-saving technologies in the Sughd
Province in the Republic of Tajikistan” (Tajikistan)
Expected timeline: June 2021 – December 2022
Status: under the launched
Objective: ensure water-energy-food security by improving the control and monitoring
system of electricity consumption in the Sughd Province of Tajikistan:
Tasks:
1. Institutional and legislative framework on operation of the pumping stations in
Tajikistan;
2. Technical diagnostic of 173 pumping stations in Sughd Province, Tajikistan;
3. Development of a concept for an automated control and monitoring system for
electricity consumption in 173 pumping stations in the Sughd Province;
4. Preparation of the investment proporal for the modernization of the Golodno
Stepsakaya Pumping Station using energy-saving technologies.

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Nexus Demo project_Kyrgyzstan
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Nexus Institualization through strategic documents (Kyrgyzstan)
Expected timeline: December 2022
Status: launched
Objective: ensure reflection of water-energy-food security nexus in national strategic
documents
Focus:
1. Agriculture development strategy;
2. Water resources management strategy;
3. Basin planning

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Phase II: Potential areas for cooperation
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1. Application of the Nexus approach through demonstration projects:
- Conduction of the CBA, trade-off analysis at the sites;
- Conduction of the modelling exercises at the site;
- Estimation of the WEF resources allocation at the facility level and how
to make it more efficient under the Nexus approach.
2. Introduction of the Nexus approach through institualization:
- Identification of institualization type and modes;
- Recommendations on institualization through the state white papers;
- Institualization through the capacity enhancement.
3. Outreach and enhancement of the Nexus approach:
- Capacity building exercises (training modules, experience exchange through cases);
- Sample curricula for the academia;
- Policy papers.
4. Financing the multisectoral projects:
- Study the experience on the financial modes for the investment of the Nexus projects;
- Identify the difference between the investment for Nexus vs. non Nexus projects;
- Produce the list of the pipeline investment projects, applicable for Nexus title/component.
5. Exchange of in House Expertise

10. For more details contact
Name:
Email:
Phone:
Website: https://carececo.org/en/main/activity/projects/NexusPhase2/
Thank You
Ludmilla Kiktenko
lkiktenko@carececo.org
8 777 762 9319