AFD Collaborates With Stakeholders For Sustainable Dev't In Uzbekistan (Exclusive)
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan, January 3. The memorandum
of understanding (MoU) signed between the French Development Agency
(AFD), the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), and
Uzbekistan introduces innovative tools and strategies for
sustainable development in the country, AFD's Country Director for
Uzbekistan Olivier Grandvoinet told Trend .
"The SDSN is collaborating with the Uzbek Ministry of Finance
and the Center for Economic Research and Reforms (CERR), a
government think tank focused on economic analysis. The MoU is a
significant step toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs) in Uzbekistan. It centers on developing specialized tools
for monitoring SDG progress, strengthening institutional
capacities, and facilitating knowledge transfer," he said.
According to him, the SDSN's contribution will focus on
tailoring a quantitative analysis approach and tools successfully
tested in countries like Benin to track SDG progress at the
national level.
Olivier Grandvoinet highlighted three key areas of collaboration
under the MoU. The first is tool development. SDSN will design and
implement monitoring tools. The second is capacity building and
knowledge transfer. The tools and their applications will be shared
with scientific and institutional stakeholders in Uzbekistan,
enabling their use in planning and policymaking. Sustainability
will be ensured by integrating Uzbek academic partners into the
SDSN network. The third part includes help from the FABLE Network,
which stands for "Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land Use, and
Energy." This network offers modeling tools for planning food
systems, biodiversity, and land use in a way that is in line with
the SDGs and the Paris Agreement.
"This partnership marks a significant step toward strengthening
Uzbekistan's ability to monitor and implement sustainable
development strategies effectively and, in particular, to assess
progress against the ambitious objectives set by Uzbekistan under
its Strategy 2030," he emphasized.
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