The Eighteenth Steering Committee meeting of the National Policy Dialogue (NPD) on Integrated Water Resources Management in Kyrgyzstan was held in Bishkek on 3 February 2023. More than 50 participants joined the important discussion on the national Water Strategy and Water Code developments, economic and financial instruments related to water sector enhancement, cooperation between national stakeholders as well as international partners. The future directions of the NPD process in Kyrgyzstan were also discussed responding to the ongoing reform related to the water sector in the country.
Since 2019 the NPD process in Kyrgyzstan and other Central Asian countries, funded by the EU, has been supported through a regional NPD project as part of the WECOOP programme which supports the EU-Central Asia Working Group on Environment and Climate Change (WGECC).