Drawing on post-development thinking, this chapter argues that resilience strategies involving the sharing of responsibilities among individuals and communities will increase the ability of the Central Asian countries to stand up to the impact of climate change. Given that Central Asian societies have a strong tradition of home-grown solidarity movements and locally embedded practices of self-reliance, governments, as well as major international donors such as the European Union, the World Bank and the UNDP should help boost societal resilience to climate change in Central Asia by supporting the ability of local societal actors to self-organise and draw on their own local strengths and knowledge of available resources and infrastructure.