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T1 Mountain Resilience: Torrent Catchment Restoration in the Pamir Mountains of Afghanistan
A1 United Nations Environment Programme, 
A2 Partow, Hassan
A2 Sherzad, Mohammad
A2 Knuerr, Alec
K1 ecosystem
K1 highland
K1 mountain ecosystem
K1 natural disaster
K1 environmentally hazardous activity
K1 Afghanistan
YR 2021
FD 2021-12
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/39982
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/39982
NO This document reports on a UNEP and Aga Khan Foundation demonstration project (2019–2021) applying ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction in the Deh-shahr mountain torrent catchment (about 60 km²; roughly 3,000 residents) in Badakhshan, Afghanistan, where floods, landslides, and drought threaten livelihoods. It outlines the project’s context, stakeholder partnerships, and a community-led planning process using workshops, a Community-Based Natural Resource Management Committee, farmer field schools, and participatory three-dimensional modelling to identify hazard hotspots. It then describes linked interventions across upper, middle, and lower catchments, including rangeland protection, terracing and contour bunds, gully plugs, reforestation and woodlots, irrigation canal rehabilitation, a flood protection dyke, and household solar water heaters, and summarizes reported reductions in hazard impacts, exposure, and vulnerabilities.
DS UN Environment Document Repository
RD Sep 22, 2026