[{"bbox": [133, 151, 1132, 232], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Livelihood Opportunities: IWRM can promote activities like fish farming, which can provide income-generating opportunities for disadvantaged communities. These activities can help alleviate poverty and improve the economic well-being of the bottom 40 percent."}, {"bbox": [133, 232, 1132, 312], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Participatory Decision-Making: IWRM often involves participatory approaches where local communities have a say in water management decisions. Disadvantaged groups can benefit from having a voice in how water resources are managed, ensuring their specific needs are considered."}, {"bbox": [133, 312, 1132, 392], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Reduced Vulnerability to Climate Change: Climate change disproportionately affects disadvantaged populations. IWRM strategies that consider climate resilience can help protect these communities from the impacts of extreme weather events and changing precipitation patterns."}, {"bbox": [97, 423, 209, 449], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Democracy"}, {"bbox": [97, 449, 1132, 606], "category": "Text", "text": "Kyrgyzstan has recently experienced a reduction in civic space, which may weaken democratic processes, institutions, and the overall enjoyment of the right to political participation by its population. The proposed Budget Support programme promotes strengthened water governance. It is crucial for long-term stability because it helps manage water resources efficiently, prevent conflicts, enhance economic development, improve public health, and address social inequities. The proposed budget support intends to reinforce political dialogue and push to adhere to the EU's fundamental values."}, {"bbox": [97, 639, 485, 666], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Conflict sensitivity, peace and resilience"}, {"bbox": [97, 667, 1132, 774], "category": "Text", "text": "The periodic flare-ups of the Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan border tensions have serious human rights consequences and threaten the stability of Kyrgyzstan and the region. Interethnic tensions within Kyrgyzstan, and internal political instability characterised by growing political polarization and weakened system of checks and balances, are other important manifestations of Kyrgyzstan's fragility."}, {"bbox": [97, 798, 1132, 985], "category": "Text", "text": "Poverty, insufficient economic and educational opportunities in the border region, scarce water and other resources, and a lack of participation of all members of local communities (including youth, women and ethnic minorities) in policy-making affecting their livelihoods, have been identified as contributing factors to the border tensions. They have also been recognised as factors hampering the authorities' response to tackle the consequences of the conflict. Corruption, a weak human rights and rule of law architecture, and difficulties in recognizing and consolidating a truly inclusive Kyrgyz identity, are significant elements causing political instability and ethnic tensions. More broadly, water disputes between upstream and downstream users are not uncommon."}, {"bbox": [97, 1010, 1132, 1065], "category": "Text", "text": "The Water SPRC promotes IWRM, which can provide mechanisms for resolving these disputes fairly, ensuring that all parties have access to water and reducing inequalities between regions and transboundary river basins."}, {"bbox": [97, 1095, 334, 1120], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Disaster Risk Reduction"}, {"bbox": [97, 1122, 1132, 1255], "category": "Text", "text": "The mountainous landscape predetermines the heterogeneity of the distribution of water resources and places of residence for the local population. High seismic activity, the complexity of the geological structure, the high landscape diversity, along with the alternation of mountain ranges and depressions, cause the widespread development and spread of dangerous natural processes and phenomena in the country, which often lead to emergency situations."}, {"bbox": [97, 1255, 1132, 1362], "category": "Text", "text": "The analysis shows a steady increasing trend in the number of emergencies, so in 1991-2000 the average statistical number of emergencies per year was 123; in 2001-2010 it was 235; and in 2011-2016 it was 313. Water-related emergencies registered in decreasing order are distributed as follows: mudflows and floods, avalanches, landslides, floods associated with rising groundwater levels, etc."}, {"bbox": [97, 1362, 1132, 1441], "category": "Text", "text": "The Water SPRC promotes the implementation of the National Water Strategy, which aims at the creation of a sustainable system of water resources management in the Kyrgyz Republic to preserve the natural capacity for the benefit of present and future generations."}, {"bbox": [97, 1445, 409, 1470], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Other considerations if relevant"}, {"bbox": [97, 1472, 132, 1495], "category": "Text", "text": "NA"}, {"bbox": [85, 1513, 422, 1540], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.4 Risks and Lessons Learnt"}, {"bbox": [82, 1555, 1166, 1638], "category": "Table", "text": "<table><thead><tr><td>Category</td><td>Risks</td><td>Likelihood</td><td>Impact</td><td>Mitigating measures</td></tr></thead></table>"}, {"bbox": [1027, 1681, 1142, 1705], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 19 of 34"}]