Climate change has become one of the most prominent factors contributing to migration in Turkmenistan, particularly due to its negative impact on agricultural production and water resources. Addressing climate change and its consequences is among the priority policy areas for Turkmenistan and is a part of the 2021-2025 UNSDCF. However, migration is not currently mainstreamed into the national plans related to climate change adaptation. This is largely the result of an absence of nationally-specific data on the migration, environment, and climate change (MECC) nexus, resulting in limited national capacities to formulate effective and evidence-based policies related to the nexus. In response, this project will contribute to supporting the Government of Turkmenistan’s strategic vision on climate change adaptation. The intended outcome of the project is that national stakeholders will mainstream migration considerations into climate change policies and climate change considerations into migration policies, ensuring that the nexus is integrated into programmatic approaches in a long-term, sustainable manner. To achieve this Outcome, the project takes a three-pronged approach. Through the first output, national capacities will be strengthened through trainings for Government officials and through the selection of three national experts to be trained on the MECC nexus by professors at the University of Vienna. Under the second Output, gender-sensitive, nationally-specific evidence will be collected through a case study on the MECC nexus in Turkmenistan in selected pilot communities. Under the final Output, a national policy mapping and analysis will be conducted, to identify the best places to mainstream MECC considerations into national policies. With the mapping and analysis report completed and the context-specific data from the research collected, the stakeholders will have the information and capacities to effectively mainstream the MECC nexus into the Government of Turkmenistan's climate change vision and adaptation strategies.