Press Release: Commission allocates EUR3.5 millions for disaster prevention and preparedness in Central Asia

The European Commission on 5 August 2005 approved a €3.5 million humanitarian aid package to continue providing disaster prevention and preparedness activities to the Central Asia region, namely Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. These funds were being allocated through the European Commission Humanitarian Aid department (ECHO). The assistance provided was to focus on strengthening the capacity of local communities to predict, provide early warning, respond to and cope with disasters and to protect vulnerable groups from likely natural disasters through small scale infrastructural works.