In Turkmenistan - within three pilot dayhan associations in the Karakum, mountain villages of Nohur, and the Turkmen Aral Sea region, the second phase of the regional project «Integrated management of natural resources in drought-prone and saline agricultural production landscapes of Central Asia and Türkiye» was implemented since 2018. 

Capital-intensive activities, in addition to standard methodological training, institutional activities and exchange of experience, constituted practical measures. This included the creation of mini GIS laboratories for the Ashgabat-based Scientific and Research Centre of the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea, the Scientific and Research Institute of Plant Protection, environmental control services and the land ministry of agriculture, the purchase of resource-saving agricultural machinery, seeds and seedlings of drought-resistant plants, portable and stationary water pumps for irrigating fields and water supply to villages, as well as equipment for rapid soil analysis for agricultural universities - TAU and TAI, the construction of twenty wells and sardobs for livestock centers, as well as plant nurseries with drip irrigation, the development of melioration plans, and the cleaning of the collector network.

The project contributed to the publication of the international scientific and practical journal «Problems of Desert Development», which has been published in Ashgabat since 1967.

Launched in 2021, the project of the Ministry of Environmental Protection of Turkmenistan, the United Nations Development Program and the Green Climate Fund «Development of the National Adaptation Planning Process in Turkmenistan» was aimed at implementing the provisions of the National Strategy of Turkmenistan on Climate Change (2019) and the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC, 2022), preparing a set of specific measures and mechanisms for their implementation.

The key results of the project were the development of a Roadmap for the implementation of the National Adaptation Plan of Turkmenistan, a concept for the development of climate financing, as well as a publication on the integration of adaptation to climate change in the field of water management.