📋 Tender Overview
TCRS: 167011
Status: TC Com approved
Location: Regional
Industry Sector: Food and Agribusiness
Notice Type: State
PSD Disclosed: 09 Nov 2026
Project Description
ANORA (Agrifood Investment Opportunities for Resilient Agriculture) is a government-led investment platform established to mobilise, coordinate and accelerate climate-smart agrifood investment in Uzbekistan. It was formally launched at the Tashkent International Investment Forum in June 2026 through the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). The platform brings together government institutions, international financial institutions, development partners and private-sector actors to translate national agrifood priorities into investment-ready projects and connect them with technical assistance and financing.
ANORA’s investment priorities span agrifood value chains, enabling infrastructure, including irrigation, and sustainable land management, with capacity building cutting across these areas. Building on the completed FAO/EBRD Investment Roadmap for Climate-Smart Agrifood Systems in Uzbekistan, the platform’s operationalisation combines investment pipeline development, project preparation, financing mobilisation and targeted policy support. Within this approach, the present assignment addresses the water-governance conditions needed for irrigation investments to deliver credible water and resilience outcomes, complementing rather than duplicating the separate investment pipeline and financing-readiness work.
Uzbekistan is scaling irrigation modernization and water-saving technologies. A remaining policy gap concerns how verified savings should be governed: whether they may support additional production, reduce withdrawals, be transferred to other users, contribute to drought reserves or support downstream and environmental needs. Under ANORA, this assignment will address the governance and incentive arrangements needed to align irrigation investment with agricultural productivity, climate resilience and basin-level water security. It will draw on existing government reforms, the FAO/EBRD Investment Roadmap, TEI analyses and available monitoring systems.
