Regional Partnerships 2025 – Part III: Little Earth and renewable energy for resilient mountain communities

This is the third story in Central Asia Solidarity Groups’ 2025 series about our partnerships across Central Asia. Together with ISDS and El-Too, Little Earth’s work shows how local organizations translate knowledge, cooperation, and sustainability into tangible results that improve lives and protect fragile environments. While the earlier stories focused on biodiversity, youth engagement, and cultural environmental action in Kyrgyzstan, this final post takes us to the high mountain villages of Tajikistan, where clean energy and women’s leadership have reshaped everyday life. In the remote Yagnob Valley of Tajikistan, surrounded by steep mountains and scattered high altitude villages, the...

Regional Partnerships 2025 – Part II: El-Too and sustainable livelihoods through knowledge and culture

As part of Central Asia Solidarity Groups’ 2025 series highlighting our partnerships across Central Asia, this story continues from our previous post about ISDS’s work in strengthening community resilience and biodiversity protection. While ISDS focused on wetlands and environmental education, El-Too’s initiatives show how the same regional cooperation has inspired new forms of local action, creativity, and community participation in Kyrgyzstan. In the mountains and semi-desert plains of Kyrgyzstan, the organization El-Too has spent the past three years working with farmers, students, and local authorities to turn ecological awareness into everyday practice. What began as a project to promote...

Regional Partnerships 2025 – Part I: ISDS and community-led biodiversity action

Throughout 2025, Central Asia Solidarity Groups worked closely with local civil society organizations across Central Asia to strengthen community resilience, environmental protection, and women’s and youth empowerment. This blog post is part of a three-part series highlighting stories from our partners ISDS, El-Too, and Little Earth each showing how collaboration and local knowledge continue to shape sustainable change beyond the project’s initial three years. Centralasiengrupperna works together with local civil society organizations across Central Asia, promoting gender equality, protecting the environment, and building stronger, more resilient communities. One of our partners is the Institute for Sustainable Development Strategy (ISDS)...