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DCC Working Group 2 "Water and Climate Change"
MTDS (GoT) priorities for the sector
Under 4.7 Habitat of the MTDS, Working Group 2 deals with:
• Increasing access to safe drinking water, and improving hygiene and sanitation
• Development of governmental sole forecasting and response system against natural disasters
(through strengthening resilience to flood and droughts thanks to improved water
management)
Under 3.2. Agrarian Sector: Food Security and Access to Quality Nutrition we deal with the
following lines of action:
 The principles of integrated water resources management and river-basin management
approach implemented, which provide for transition from administrative water resources
management to hydrological boundaries (of river basins). Four national River Basin and four
River Sub-basin organisations established, focusing on addressing operational issues in the
field of irrigation.
• rehabilitating irrigation systems, and facilitating sustainable functioning of the irrigation and
drainage infrastructure operation and maintenance system in order to promote sustainable
agriculture and food security.
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Development Partners’ interventions / Donor’s support
• Water Sector Reform Programme 2016-2025 approved by the GoT 30 December 2015
• Coordination Unit for implementation of reforms established to ensure effective
cooperation among state agencies and between them and development partners
• US$ 240 million contribution by development partners in the water sector includes:
–support to reform implementation, building viable capacities of national and basin
authorities to effectively implement the reforms,
–Enhance capacity to support IWRM at central (MEWR), basin and sub-basin level,
including development of norms and standards, policy and strategy development,
application of common approaches in all basins and sub-basins
–Develop land and water planning tools and related capacity, ongoing review of the
river basin planning, catchment assessments and baseline data collection .
–Improve water control/availability and increased water distribution/equity for water
users, technical and legal support for WUA
–Support provided to KMK regionalization process – establishment of pilot regional
water companies
–Rehabilitation of irrigation and drinking water infrastructure
– Rehabilitation of irrigation and drinking water infrastructure
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What is missing? But is important for the sector development
• The Water sector is one of the most important sectors in Tajikistan, in support of
agriculture, industry, environment, energy and others, not mentioned in the MTDS, nor in
NDS.
• One main issue in implementing water reforms is confused and overlapped (current)
regulations and charters of state agencies, mixing policy, regulation and operations
• Other issues are legal and fiscal (taxation) status of WUA, tariffs, mechanisms to ensure the
Water Supply and Sanitation (WSS) sector’s financial autonomy
• Therefore, MTDS should clearly state that there is an urgent need for existing charters and
regulations to be reviewed and revised
• Sustainability is a major issue, which WSS sector is facing.
• Rural water supply and sanitation sub-sector is underfunded.
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Priority areas / Results to be achieved by 2020
Issues mentioned in the MTDS in 3.2. and 4.7 will be addressed, as follows:
1. Development of water sector reform strategy and implementation of water sector reform
• Development of a whole range of legislative frameworks, including development of a new
edition of the Water Code and the Law on WUAs, in line with IWRM principles and River
Basin Management (RBM) approaches;
• Developing a set of necessary strategies, notably National Water Strategy as the umbrella for
the entire water sector, followed by irrigation and drinking water strategies;
• Institutional reforms:
o defining roles and responsibilities of state institutions with clear separation of policy and
regulation on one hand and operation and maintenance on the other hand
o new institutions need to be created and developed, such as the National Water Council,
River Basin Organisations (RBOs) and River Basin Councils (RBCs),
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Priority areas / Results to be achieved by 2020 - continued
2. Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM)
• Development of Regulatory frameworks allowing for integrated water resources management;
• Enhanced capacity to regulate control and support IWRM at central, basin and sub-basin level
• Targeted communities and water users benefit from improved water control/availability and
from increased water distribution/equity
• Land and water planning tools are operational and related capacity is developed, including at
sub-basin level
3. Infrastructure developments
 Improved water supply, reduced water losses and improved water metering in some Tajik cities,
towns and settlements
• Our intervention in the water sector is directly related to the adaptation to the impact of climate
changes and disaster risk reduction (preservation of natural resources - irrigation and drinkable
water, soil, arable land, erosion control measures, etc.)