Partners & Regional Cooperation
RESILAND CA+ delivers its mission through a coalition of international financiers, regional coordinating institutions, and national government agencies working together to restore Central Asia's transboundary landscapes.
International Financiers
Three World Bank-anchored funding streams provide the financial backbone of RESILAND CA+ combining sovereign development financing with thematic multi-donor trust funds focused on forests, landscapes, and Korean development cooperation.
THE WORLD BANK
IBRD · IDA · WORLD BANK GROUP
The principal financier of RESILAND CA+ through IDA concessional lending. The Bank designed the regional programme architecture, mobilises co-financing, and provides ongoing supervision and technical assistance to participating governments.
Role: Programme financier & technical advisor
PROGREEN
GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR LANDSCAPES
A World Bank-administered multi-donor trust fund that finances integrated landscape approaches in client countries. PROGREEN supports the regional analytics, knowledge products, and capacity-building activities that complement national investment projects.
Role: Regional analytics & knowledge financier
KWPF
KOREA – WORLD BANK PARTNERSHIP FACILITY
Established by the Government of the Republic of Korea and the World Bank, KWPF co-finances activities that bring Korean development expertise to client countries. For RESILAND CA+, KWPF supports the Uzbekistan regional subcomponent and selected knowledge exchange activities.
Role: Co-financier (Uzbekistan subcomponent)
Regional Coordinator
CAREC the Regional Environmental Centre for Central Asia coordinates the regional subcomponents of RESILAND CA+ across all five participating countries.
Regional Environmental Centre for Central Asia
CAREC is an independent, non-profit, non-political organisation established in 2001 by the five Central Asian states to address regional environmental challenges. As the implementing agency for RESILAND CA+ regional subcomponents, CAREC manages the Regional Exchange Platform, coordinates transboundary policy dialogue, delivers regional knowledge products, and oversees capacity-building activities across the five participating countries.
Founded: 2001 Headquarters: Almaty, Kazakhstan Programme role: Regional coordinator since 2024
Government Agencies
National investment projects under RESILAND CA+ are implemented directly by each country’s lead environmental authority, working in close coordination with CAREC and the World Bank country teams.
Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Kyrgyz Republic (MES)
Lead implementer of Kyrgyzstan’s RESILAND CA+ national investment project. The MES drives the country’s disaster-resilience and landscape agenda developing the online catalogue of climate-induced disasters, nature-based solutions (NBS) guidelines and the regional mudflow-mitigation roadmap, while overseeing forest and land restoration through its national Forest Service.
Role: National implementing agency (Kyrgyz Republic)
Committee for Environmental Protection under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan (CEP)
Lead implementer of Tajikistan’s RESILAND CA+ national project. As the national environmental authority, the CEP advances transboundary landscape restoration and protected-areas management, and anchors Tajikistan’s role in the Regional Exchange Platform for high-level policy dialogue across Central Asia.
Role: National implementing agency (Tajikistan)
Agency for Increasing Forests and Green Areas and Combating Desertification
Lead implementer of Uzbekistan’s RESILAND CA+ national project. The Agency leads afforestation, green-area expansion and anti-desertification work including restoration of the Aralkum, the dried Aral Sea bed under the subcomponent co-financed by three partners (IDA, PROGREEN and KWPF).
Role: National implementing agency (Uzbekistan)
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan & 🇹🇲 Turkmenistan — Advisory Phase
National implementing partners in Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan are currently engaged in the advisory and landscape-study phases of RESILAND CA+. Formal lead agencies will be confirmed once national investment projects are approved.
Technical Collaborators
International knowledge and conservation institutions contribute technical expertise, cross-regional comparative analysis, and policy networks that strengthen the RESILAND CA+ approach.
ICIMOD
IUCN
Regional Cooperation Framework
RESILAND CA+ operates through a multi-layered cooperation model that combines sovereign country ownership with regional coordination and international financing oversight.
Sovereign Financing
IDA lending to participating governments for national investment projects
National Implementation
Lead environmental and forestry agencies in each country execute on-the-ground activities.
Regional Coordination
CAREC operates the Regional Exchange Platform connecting all five countries.
Global Replication
RESILAND model exported to Armenia and Sahel through World Bank knowledge transfer.