Tajikistan, Dec. 17 -- The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $3 million grant to strengthen Tajikistan's capacity for glacier monitoring and hazard forecasting. The grant comes from the Japan Fund for Prosperous and Resilient Asia and the Pacific (JFPR) financed by the Government of Japan through ADB. The Agency for Hydrometeorology (Hydromet) will be the executing and implementing agency for the project, which is expected to be completed by 2029 and primarily implemented in selected districts of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast.The project will boost Hydromet's ability to monitor glaciers and snow more accurately and timely by creating an end-to-end unified digital data system that improves data collection, storage, and ana...