📋 Tender Overview
Project Status: Active
Source of Funding / Amount: Grant 0816-pak: khyber pakhtunkhwa cities improvement project
Ordinary capital resources: US$ 5.00 million
The khyber pakhtunkhwa cities improvement project will help provincial and city governments of khyber pakhtunkhwa province (kpk) to improve the livability of five cities (abbottabad, kohat, mardan, mingora, and peshawar) by (i) expanding physical investments in urban water, sewerage, solid waste disposal, and green infrastructure; (ii) providing institutional support to improve service delivery and the performance of municipal companies, and (iii) promoting gender-friendly municipal services through empowerment and capacity development. The project will benefit up to 3. 5 million people in the five target cities of kpk. The project supports the governments development priorities, established in (i) the kpk water act (2020), (ii) the amended local government act (2019), (iii) the integrated water resource management strategy for kpk, and (iv) pakistans nationally determined contributions (ndcs). This is the first urban project being categorized as gender equity theme (gem) in pakistan. This is also the urban project that is contributing most to adbs commitment to climate financing with over $ 30 million climate adaptation and $ 100 million climate mitigation in 2021/2022. The proejct is being prepared with adbs first project readiness financing (prf) approved in march 2019. Thanks to prf, the government has achieved a high level of project readiness including (i) 100% completion of detailed engineering designs (deds), (ii) 100% preparation of draft bidding documents and consultants tors and approval by the provincial government, (iii) preparation and disclosure of over 30 safeguard documents based on deds, (iv) establishment of fully staffed core pmu with additional recruitments to follow, (v) issuance of 7 procurement packages worth over $300 million or about 75% of adb financing as advance procurement. -
Background: kpk is one of the four administrative provinces of pakistan, located about 130 kilometers (km) northwest of islamabad, the countrys capital. Kpk accounts for about 11% of pakistans gross domestic product with the fastest annual growth rate of about 5% among all four provinces over between 2000 and 2017. Kpk has a population of around 32 million (50% women) but this is expected to reach about 58 million by 2035. By the same year, it is also estimated that 35% of kpks population will be concentrated in cities, up from 16% in 2017. Kpks rapid urban population growth rate (approximately 3. 4% per annum) is placing a tremendous strain on its cities. Inadequate infrastructure and limited capacity to manage municipal water, sanitation, and solid waste services are creating major health risks for the population and threatening the resilience of cities to the effects of climate change. Kpk province shares its border with afghanistan and is located only about 200 km away from kab
