📋 Tender Overview
Project ID: P174135
Region: Europe and central asia
Commitment Amount: Us$ 142.00 million
Total Project Cost: Us$ 150.00 million
The Uzbekistan Resilient Landscapes Restoration Project -SOP I will be financed by a US$138 million IDA credit, a US$4 million IDA grant, and a US$8 million PROGREEN grant. The projectwill be implementedby the CF over a six-year period, in partnership with EC-IFAS, which will implement regional activities. 26.The geographical focus of the project will be based on a combination of several criteria, including poverty incidence, potential for integrated landscape restoration, regional and transboundary corridors, and complementarity with government resolutions, among others. The project will focus on areas in Uzbekistan that border other Central Asia countries within the five regions/oblasts of Ferghana (areas bordering the Kyrgyz Republic), Karakalpakstan (areas near the highlydegradedAral Sea bed, which is shared also with Kazakhstan), Sirdarya (areas bordering Kazakhstan and Tajikistan, including transboundary protected areas), Jizzakh (areas bordering Tajikistan), and Surkhandarya (areas bordering Tajikistan and Afghanistan) as shown in figure 2. Landscape restoration interventions will focus on improving connectivity and strengthening transboundary corridors for biodiversity, transport, theecohydrological performance of watersheds, and trade. Interventionswill be prioritized according to the main drivers of degradation in each area and their relative impact The project will be preparedusing a Project Preparation Grant (PPG). The Recipient-Executed Trust Fund (US$423,000 ECAPDEV) will be managed by the CF’s Department of International Relations and Ecotourism Development(CF IRED) through a team of technical staff and consultants.The PPG will finance technical, environmental, and social assessments, the development of a results framework, fiduciary assessments, a gender gap analysis, consultation and communication, and the preparation of a Project Operational Manual and a Project Grants Manual. The PPG will also finance the training and capacity building of local stakeholders as needed. Project preparation will also benefit from a Bank-Executed PROGREENTF (and tentative financing from the Governmentof Korea Green Growth TF/KGGTF). The project design will also be informed by several studies in Central Asia countries, including those financed by CAWEP, Wealth Accounting and the Valuation of Ecosystem Services (WAVES), and the NDC Partnership. During project preparation, innovative technologies and approaches will be used for consultations with stakeholders to overcome COVID-19-related travel restrictions.
