📋 Tender Overview
Project ID: P171524
Region: Europe and central asia
Commitment Amount: Us$ 45.00 million
Total Project Cost: Us$ 45.00 million
The US$45 million IDA project will be implemented over a five-year period under the leadership of the Committee of Environmental Protection (CEP).Of this $30 million is national IDA, and $15 million is regional IDA. Landscape management approaches seek to provide frameworks for allocating and managing land to achieve environmental, economic and social objectives in areas of multiple and often competing land uses. The project will build on lessons from ELMARL, CAMP4ASB and other Bank and donor-funded projects on agriculture, irrigation, disaster risk mitigation, rural economy and tourism development in the country. Village and community-based/resource user groups and organizations will take responsibility for the choice, design and management of smaller-scale landscape and livelihood investments. At the same time, the project will work across sectors, e.g., with the Forestry Agency, Ministry of Energy and Water Resources, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Finance, as well as local administration and organizations (district, sub-district) to incorporate a landscape approach for investment planning. Project areas/districts will be selected based ona combination of criteria.An initial pre-screening of districts has been conducted using the following criteria -poverty incidence, potential for integrated landscape restoration (incorporating pasture, agriculture, water, forestry, biodiversity), regional and transboundary corridors, and complementarity with government and donor-funded initiatives. When overlaid on the current arrangements of river basins, potential project sites fall in the following river basins: a) Syr Darya (in Sughd oblast, bordering Uzbekistan and the Kyrgyz Republic); b) larger Panj (in Khatlon and Gorno Badakhsahn Autonomous oblasts, bordering the Kyrgyz Republic and Afghanistan); and c) Vakhsh (in the Region of Republican Subordination and Khatlon oblasts, bordering Afghanistan)as shown the Map of river basins below. These sites include protected and forest areas that share boundaries with the above countries, along with sub-basins and watersheds that form upper catchments and include tributaries of regionally important rivers. Resources of national and regional significance in these sites include riparian forests (tugai), threatened fauna (snow leopard) and infrastructure (dams). During project preparation further analysis will be conducted and consultations held with government and other stakeholders to finalize project sites. Project Beneficiaries. Primary project beneficiaries are expected to be rural communities, private farmers and farmer groups, villages and village communities and resource user groups (e.g., for pasture) interested in adoptin
