Overview of the PSD Workshop Structure
Session 2 aimed to further develop the list of identified drivers by looking at the range of possible and desired future trends. This session included identifying future goals Figure 2, combining
them into potential future scenarios to 2040, and then developing the scenarios in detail by using the participants knowledge of the country or region and the sectors. In the oblast-level
workshops, participants worked in parallel groups focused on the same region, which increased the robustness of the results.
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Figure 1. Key elements of the PSD workshops
Session 1:
Drivers of current development and
adaptive capacities and actions in the
countryregion
Session 2:
Socioeconomic and environmental trends
focused on key areas of the countryregion
Identifying potential future climate impacts
and needed actions and capacities
Session 3:
Assessing resilience of the future system
and identifying actions
Session 4:
Figure 2. Example of future goals identified for selected key sectors
Photo: Rayhon Jonbekova and Livia Bizikova
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Session 3 focused on introducing climate change projections and considering their impacts in the context of the future goals. This required identifying potential consequences of climate change in
the context of the goals and then identifying a set of key responses. In this session, the participants received a brief introductory presentation on climate change impacts, based on
published projections, and their impacts in Tajikistan as a whole as well as in the oblasts. The presentation was done by a local expert, as such a presenter is able to give examples of
projections, similar events from the recent past, institutional context and other details that participants may ask about.
Figure 3. Participants working in groups during the workshop sessions in the GBAO
Photos: Rayhon Jonbekova
Session 4
The closing session
processing the results
looked at the trade-offs that came with each measure, as well as the actors capacities to respond to climatic events, learn from their mistakes and try to improve the system. Once the
groups had identified specific goals, capacities and actions, they were asked to review them and make any additions needed to increase the resilience of the regional system. Finally, they were
asked to create a timeline of key actions that would be needed to build a resilient system.
consisted of informing the participants of how the results would be used, when and where they could access the reports, and other potential future events.
After completing the workshops, all materials written by the participants were collected, transcribed and processed. Section 3 of this report lists the major themse of these materials.
When , we both looked at key challenges, goals and needed measures
identified in each of the workshop locations and also highlighted the issues that were given priority across all the workshops. We summarize the results in Section 3 and present more detailed
results in the appendix, Section 7.
In total, five workshops took place from September through November 2011 in five cities: Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan; Khorog, in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province
GBAO; Kurgan-Tyube, in the Khatlon region; Khujand, in the province of Sughd; and Vakhdat district, in the Districts of Republican Subordination region RRS. In total, 124 people participated
in the workshops, excluding the facilitators, team members and other organizers. The participants worked in a total of 16 groups of six to ten people. On average, at each workshop
approximately 25 per cent of participants were women and 75 per cent were men.