USAID Kazakhstan Climate Change Mitigation Program

The goal of this project is to support Kazakhstan as it pursues long-term, transformative development and accelerate sustainable economic growth while slowing and eventually reversing the growth of GHG emissions. The Kazakhstan Climate Change Mitigation Project will address three objectives (tasks):
· improve the capacity of the GOKZ to implement and enforce GHG reducing policies and measures,
· build the capacity within the business community to comply with GHG reducing policies and measures, and
· improve the professional education of energy and climate change specialists in Kazakhstan.
Given the rapidly evolving policy environment in Kazakhstan, the KCCMP will embrace the principles of adaptive management and work to update programmatic management tools, such as the full integrated Work Plan and Performance Monitoring and Evaluation Plan (PMP), at strategic intervals, such as following an initial update and assessment of the status of the ETS and LES. Design and prioritization of activities under each of the tasks should also allow for periodic feedback from stakeholder consultations.