The UNDP Uzbekistan has published the "Schematic Map of Major Environmental Concerns and Donors’ Assistance in Uzbekistan". The map was developed by the joint project of the State Committee for Nature Protection and UNDP "Enhancement of the Environmental Indicators Database with GIS Application to Monitor the State of the Environment in Uzbekistan".

It covers the period from 1996 to 2006 and provides with information on geographic distribution of the most significant region-wide environmental assistance projects financed by international donor organizations. The map also illustrates the major environmental problems in Uzbekistan such as air pollution, surface and underground water pollution, agricultural land salinization, overgrazing, desertification, land cover destruction as well as radioactive pollution. It was developed on the basis of the cartographic data provided by the State Committee for Land Resources, Geodesy, Cartography and State Cadastre, the State Committee for Geology and Mineral Resources. The environmental data used in this publication is mainly derived from environmental maps like Geo-Ecological Map of Uzbekistan (1998-1999) and Map of Anthropogenic Desertification in Uzbekistan (1998) developed earlier. These data was corrected by the national experts.

The enclosure to the map in a booklet format lists most of the donor organizations and projects implemented at national and regional levels; it also provides information about implementing agencies, related projects’ budgets and chronology. This data was derived from donors’ information sources available on the internet and also directly from projects.

According to the EIS database developers, this GIS-based map is the first generalization of the international donor assistance in Uzbekistan for the last 12 years. It enables to visually locate the significant projects and correlate them with the major environmental concerns, which helps to reveal the environmentally degraded areas with poor international attention. The brief analysis of the map shows that there are some regions in Uzbekistan with alarming situation such as the Southern provinces, where just a few environmental projects have been implemented during the period covered by the map. So this publication can be used as a "roadmap" by international donors intending to assist the environmental projects in this country.