Developing a national water security indicators framework in Kazakhstan
Water security is a matter of great national importance for Kazakhstan, with its Security
Council meeting on 26 June 2019 devoted to “Ensuring Water Security”. This paper presents
recent progress in Kazakhstan with regard to identifying water security priorities
and establishing indicators to monitor and measure progress towards achieving water
security. The paper also analyses those water security indicators that simultaneously
relate to the “nationalised” Green Growth Indicators (GGIs) and Sustainable Development
Goal (SDG) indicators that are relevant to water security, and also identifies opportunities
for complimentary indicators to be developed to track the full suite of water security
targets. The paper identifies remaining challenges for future work in this domain,
including improving data collection and reporting; and integrating water security
indicators into relevant policy documents, strategies and plans to secure the technical
and political attention necessary to drive progress in this domain.
Published on June 02, 2021
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