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Ministry of Environmental Protection, Kazakhstan Asian Development Bank: TA-4375 Environmental Monitoring and Information Management System for Sustainable Land Use Draft Final Report: 15th November, 2007 Environmental Monitoring and Information Management System for Sustainable Land Use Draft Final Report Table of contents Executive Summary.................................................................................................................................... 1 1 Introduction and Background ............................................................................................................. 4 1.1 Introduction............................................................................................................................... 4 1.2 Scope and Structure of this Report........................................................................................... 4 2 Work undertaken by the Project ......................................................................................................... 5 2.1 Major Project Milestones .......................................................................................................... 5 2.2 Project Workshops and Steering Committee Meetings............................................................. 5 2.3 Procurement of Equipment and Software................................................................................. 8 2.4 Setting up the SKO Office and Recruitment of Staff ................................................................. 9 2.5 Liaison with SKO Partner Agencies and Offices....................................................................... 9 2.6 Proposals and Discussions on Indicators of Land and Water Degradation ............................ 10 2.7 Maps and other Geo-referenced Data considered for inclusion into the SKO Subsystem...... 10 2.8 Environmental Auditing of Agricultural Enterprises and Farms............................................... 15 2.9 Sprinkler Infiltration Experiments: Results and Conclusions................................................... 15 3 Work undertaken with the SKO Partner Agencies .......................................................................... 17 3.1 General................................................................................................................................... 17 3.2 Work with GosNPCzem .......................................................................................................... 17 3.2.1 Digitising and Use of the 1:300.000-scale soils / land units map ............................................ 17 3.2.2 Generating Point Files from Tables of Latitude and Longitude ............................................... 17 3.2.3 The recent (updated) soils / bonitet assessment maps and reports ....................................... 18 3.2.4 Kolkhoz / Sovkhoz point mapping........................................................................................... 18 3.2.5 Selskiy Okrug centres: point mapping .................................................................................... 19 3.2.6 Selskiy Okrug boundaries....................................................................................................... 19 3.2.7 Digitising of geobotanical (rangeland) mapping...................................................................... 19 3.3 Work with SKO Statistics Agency ........................................................................................... 19 3.3.1 General................................................................................................................................... 19 3.3.2 Selskiy Okrug crop statistics...................................................................................................20 3.3.3 Rayon crop statistics for irrigated land.................................................................................... 20 3.4 KAZHYDROMET .................................................................................................................... 20 3.4.1 General................................................................................................................................... 20 3.4.2 Meteorological Data................................................................................................................ 21 Mott MacDonald i Environmental Monitoring and Information Management System for Sustainable Land Use Draft Final Report 3.4.3 Future areas of cooperation with KAZHYDROMET................................................................ 21 3.5 Hydrogeological Meliorative Expedition (HME)....................................................................... 22 3.5.1 General................................................................................................................................... 22 3.5.2 Specific work activities............................................................................................................ 22 4 Recommended Future Developments.............................................................................................. 23 4.1 Lessons learnt to date and future applications of these lessons............................................. 23 4.1.1 Lessons learnt ........................................................................................................................ 23 4.1.2 Application of the lessons to future project development........................................................ 25 4.2 Proposals for Future Work...................................................................................................... 25 4.2.1 Background ............................................................................................................................ 25 4.2.2 Continuing work at the SKO level with the existing SKO subsystem and staff: immediate tasks ................................................................................................. 25 4.2.3 Continuing work at the SKO level with the existing SKO subsystem and staff: future tasks... 27 4.2.4 Work at National level in absorbing the SKO system and data and setting the framework for the replication of this subsystem throughout the other 13 oblasts of the country .......... 30 4.2.5 The routine replication of this work among these other oblasts. ............................................. 30 5 KAZAKHSTAN EMIMS: Summary and Conclusions on Major Findings and Outputs of Project 32 Annex A: Annotated Bibliography.......................................................................................................... 36 Annex B: Analysis of Soil and Bonitet Assessment Mapping and Reporting at Selskiy Okrug level: 1:10.000 Mapping for Karamurt SO, Sairam Rayon ............................................................................... 51 Annex C: Soil Resources of the Southern Kazakhstan Area ................................................................ 55 Annex D: Irrigation Statistics by Rayon, comparisons 1987-2004 ....................................................... 89 Annex E: Legal Aspects ........................................................................................................................... 90 Annex F: Carbon Sequestration and Stocks: the Kyoto Protocol ........................................................ 95 Annex G: Terms of Reference.................................................................................................................. 98 Annex H: Selection of GIS Map Coverages .......................................................................................... 107 Note: This Final Report for the ADB-TA 4375 is accompanied by a technical volume ‘Design Guidelines for the SKO Subsystem’, and both volumes are available as Adobe pdf files. Interactive spreadsheets, and data in both original and processed formats are additionally available on CD to be provided with hard-copy versions of the report. Disclaimer: This report has been drafted with the financial assistance of the Asian Development Bank under ADB-TA 4375. The views expressed herein are those of the Project staff and Consultants and not necessarily those of the Bank or its individual staff members. Mott MacDonald ii Environmental Monitoring and Information Management System for Sustainable Land Use Draft Final Report List of abbreviations BVO Basin Water Organisation CAC Central Asian Country CACILM Central Asian Countries Initiative for Land Management CGIAR Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research CSPC Centre for Sustainable Production and Consumption (local partner NGO based in Almaty) DEM Digital Elevation Model EIA Environmental Impact Assessment EIMS Environmental Information Management System (of MoEP) EMIMS Environmental Monitoring and Information Management System for Sustainable Land Use (of Project) FAO Food and Agricultural Organisation FHC Forestry and Hunting Committee GIS Geographic Information System GoK Government of Kazakhstan GosNPCZem State scientific production centre on land resources and land-use planning HME Hydro-Geological Meliorative Expedition (of the MoA) IAC Information and Analytical Centre ISRIC International Soil Research and Information Centre MIS Management Information Centre MoA Ministry of Agriculture MoEP Ministry of Environmental Protection NAP National Action Plan NEAP National Environmental Action Plan NGO Non Governmental Organisation OblVodkHoz Oblast (SKO) Hydrological Design Institute OECD Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development PSR