📋 Tender Overview
Scope :
The development objective of the Medium-Size Cities Integrated Urban Development Project for Uzbekistan are to support the Borrower to: (a) improve selected urban infrastructure, public spaces and assets, and access to services in Participating Cities; and (b) strengthen the institutional capacity of the Borrower’s relevant agencies to deliver and manage local infrastructure.It has three components. First component, improvement of urban services and enhancement of public urban spaces will finance a targeted bundle of integrated and multi-sectoral investments to contribute to the enhancement of selected public urban spaces in project cities and improve livability; Second component, institutional strengthening and capacity building will consist of activities targeting project cities and local government agencies, tailored to their specific needs, including without being limited to: (i) asset management systems and management of integrated urban mobility; (ii) sustainable tourism development; and (iii) cooperation with the private sector. It has two subcomponents: (i) institutional strengthening and capacity building of participating cities and (ii) support to the national medium-size cities program (NMSCP); Third component, implementation support will support project implementation, including implementation of the project monitoring and evaluation system, communication strategy, application of safeguard instruments as well as training and financing of incremental operating costs of the Project Implementing Unit.
Concept Description
The Medium Size Cities Integrated Urban Development project responds to the request by the GoU to support the demonstration of innovative approaches to integrated urban and territorial development in Uzbekistan, in order to improve livability and support local development in medium sized cities, and demonstrate a viable model for replication across the regions of the country.
The project would be composed by the following components: (1) Urban infrastructure rehabilitation and upgrading to address the service gap; (2) targeted public infrastructure investments to attract private investments, and (3) institutional and capacity strengthening for long-term sustainability.
Component 1: Urban Infrastructure Rehabilitation and Upgrading. This component will aim to ensure minimum standards of infrastructure, services and connectivity to be achieved in areas of intervention within target cities. The investments will be selected based on the priorities for each of the selected project cities, and could include street upgrading, recreational services like parks and other public spaces improvements, intra city transport, drainage rehabilitation, water supply and sewerage rehabilitation, support to solid waste management systems, social infrastructure upgrading (e.g. energy retrofitting of schools, hospitals) etc. Community participation and engagement of women will be key criteria in determin
