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High Pamir/Pamir-Alai Mountains: Transborder Legal Institutions

04.06.2012

The "Sustainable Land Management in the High Pamir and Pamir-Alai Mountains" GEF/UNEP/UNU Project is located in the transboundary mountain ecosystem shared between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. The project was established to alleviate poverty, control land degradation and develop ways to rehabilitate ecosystems in the Pamirs. The University of New England's (UNE's) Australian Centre for Agriculture and Law is the project's lead agency working to provide an improved legal and regulatory framework. A transboundary legal institutions approach is being used, with the intention of enabling mountain communities to take primary responsibility for the productive and sustainable management of mountain resources. The legal and institutional component of the project has provided an excellent opportunity for Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan to improve their understanding of their legislative and policy systems for Sustainable Land Management in the High Pamir and Pamir-Alai Mountains. Many of the principles, procedures and lessons learned from the analysis carried out in this component of the project can be extrapolated to other parts of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan and to other mountain regions of the world.

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