Pathways to Resilient Urban Futures in Tashkent
Authors: Giulio Verdini, Ripin Kalra, Zamira Ataniyazova, Munira Zakirova
Key messages:
• Tashkent's path to resilient urban futures depends on simultaneously addressing fragmented governance and a critical shortage of qualified professionals — two structural deficits that underpin challenges across urban planning, water, and energy systems alike.
• In the urban realm, resilience requires shifting from reactive, KPI-driven governance towards integrated long-term planning that embeds climate, seismic, and demographic considerations, and redirects investment from prestige-led projects towards community needs.
• In the water sector, freshwater resilience depends on reducing dependency on transboundary supplies and upgrading water management infrastructure, particularly that serving industry.
• In the energy sector, accelerating the transition requires prioritising distribution grid modernisation and building the full implementation ecosystem — technicians, monitoring systems, supply chains — needed to translate existing policy commitments into action and scale up the momentum already demonstrated by market-led solar adoption and independent power producers.
Giulio Verdini, Ripin Kalra, Zamira Ataniyazova, Munira Zakirova (2026). Pathways to Resilient Urban Futures in Tashkent. CPRO Policy Brief 2026-06-02.
