The Pamir Alai programme focuses on mountain development and sustainable land management and consists of three sub-programmes:

(1) The Pamir Strategy Project (PSP) focused on the preparation of development strategy by establishing a knowledge system on the status and dynamics of the Tajik Pamir Mountains. In addition to concrete results, the project provided conceptual and methodological approaches to strategy and sustainable mountain development.

(2) Building on the PSP results, CDE is currently involved in the realization of a two-year preparatory project entitled ‘Sustainable Land Management in the High Pamir and Pamir-Alai Mountains’. This transboundary project will develop and implement an integrated land management system for the preservation and rehabilitation of ecosystems. For this purpose, land management practices, resource dynamics, and policy frameworks are being studied, with the aim of developing a full project to be funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF).

(3) The above projects are complemented by research done in the framework of the NCCR North-South on knowledge related to the use of renewable resources, land degradation, and sustainable mountain development.