Central Tajik Water Rehabilitation Project

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Overview

The EBRD is considering providing a loan to finance a programme of priority capital investments, to improve the municipal water services in the Central Tajik cities of Gissar, Shachrinav, Somoniyon, and Turzonzoda. The overall objectives of this Project are to: (i) rehabilitate the water supply system and, where applicable, allow selected wastewater improvements; (b) improve both billing and collection; and (c) improve financial and operational management.

Project ID 41642

Status Repaying

Location

Tajikistan

Business Sector

Municipal Infrastructure

Notice Type

State

Project timeline

Exploratory
Passed Concept Review
Passed Structure Review
Passed Final Review
Board Approved
Signed
Implementing
Completed

Company Contact Information

Fayzulloev Abduqodir
mid_piu@mail.ru
+992372334983
Republic of Tajikistan, Dushanbe, N.Karaboyev street 56

Project ID 41642

Status Repaying

Location

Tajikistan

Business Sector

Municipal Infrastructure

Notice Type

State

Environmental Category

Approval Date

08 Nov 2011

Disclosure date

15 Jul 2011

As permitted by paragraph 2.6 of Section III of the Access to Information Policy, disclosure of this PSD was deferred in accordance with paragraph 1.4.4 of the Directive on Access to Information.

Central Tajik Water Rehabilitation Project (Russian) (PDF, 0.58MB)

Project description

Client information

WATER AND SEWAGE COMPANY OF TAJIKISTAN

The client for this project is the State Unitary Enterprise Khojagii Manziliyu-Kommunali ("KMK"), which is the owner of the water companies in the four cities.

EBRD Finance Summary

USD 7,000,000.00

The EBRD is considering a US$ 7 million sovereign guaranteed loan to KMK in an amount of USD 7 million. The proceeds of the loan will be on-lent to the respective water companies.

Total project cost

USD 16,792,500.00

US$21 million including related technical cooperation. The project will be co-financed by an investment grant from an international donor.

Environmental & Social Summary

The project has been categorised B under the EBRD Environmental and Social Policy. An Environmental and Social Audit/Review of the four participating Water Companies' current EHSS management practices, operations and facilities, and an Environmental and Social Analysis of the proposed Priority Investment Programme (PIP) were carried out as part of the Feasibility Study by independent consultants.

The implementation of the proposed PIP is expected to significantly improve efficiency, reliability and quality of water supply and wastewater collection in the central part of Tajikistan, thus contributing to the provision of uninterrupted access to safe drinking water, prevention of ground and watercourses pollution and improvement of public health. PIP components will mostly involve renovation of the existing water production, supply and distribution in the Central Tajik cities of Gissar, Shachrinav, Somoniyon, and Turzonzoda.

Any adverse future environmental and social impacts associated with the Project are site-specific and readily addressed through adequate mitigation measures. The implementation of the PIP involves construction works that will result in limited, localised and short-term adverse environmental impacts, which will be mitigated or prevented by adhering to good construction practice.

The due diligence investigations showed that the participating Water Companies have weak EHSS management capabilities and underdeveloped EHSS management systems, and that their current occupational health and safety and stakeholder engagement practices require further improvement to meet EBRD's Performance Requirements (PRs).

The companies' facilities are currently in poor operating condition resulting in unreliable and low quality water supply, high water losses and energy consumption. Wastewater collection networks are incomplete and wastewater treatment is absent in most cities. The due diligence concluded that for all four localities the reliability and quality of the drinking water supply will be significantly improved to meet local requirements, however additional further long-term investments into water networks and treatment would be required to bring it in full compliance with EU standards.

Renovation of wastewater infrastructure needs to be included in the long term investment programme due to affordability reasons. At this time the financing for the long-term investment programme from the Companies' own revenues cannot be confirmed and no potential sources of external funding has been identified. Therefore, on account of constraints arising from affordability and limited financial resources, derogation will be sought from the EBRD's Environmental and Social Policy.

The ESDD showed that the project will have a significant positive impact on public health and the environment despite the project not being able to achieve full EU compliance in the short term. The human health implications of the shortfalls from EU standards are assessed to be minor compared to the benefits of the PIP implementation resulting in safer and more reliable water supply to the local population. However, untreated wastewater discharges will remain in the short term and continue to present health risks to the local communities. Awareness raising programmes to prevent risks of water borne diseases will be developed and implemented as part of mitigation plans

Environmental and Social Action Plans (ESAPs) have been developed for the participating Water Companies to bring them into compliance with national regulations and to meet EBRD's PRs, where financially feasible. ESAPs include the necessary improvements in Companies' EHSS management and capacity, improvement of water monitoring practices and chlorine handling procedures, formalising HR practices, including improving equal opportunities with respect to gender and developing better OHS practices, fire safety and emergency response procedures, improving solid waste management practices.

Technical Cooperation and Grant Financing

The following technical co-operation ("TC") funds are envisaged as part of this project

Project Implementation Support. International consultants to assist the project implementation group within KMK and the water companies with engineering design, procurement, preparation and evaluation of tenders, contract award administration, financial control, project management and reporting. (US$ D 1.1 million to be financed by an international donor or the ETC Fund)

Corporate Development Programme. To support operational and financial improvements to ensure the sustainability of the individual water companies. The TC would also include regulatory support as required, based on achievements of TCs for the South Tajik project (Project ID 37656) and North Tajik project (Project ID 40717), which are under implementation. (US$D 1 million to be financed by an international donor or the ETC Fund).
Stakeholder Participation Programme. To implement a Stakeholder Participation Programme in the participating cities. (US$D 350,000 to be financed by EBRD's Water Fund).

Company Contact Information

Fayzulloev Abduqodir
mid_piu@mail.ru
+992372334983
Republic of Tajikistan, Dushanbe, N.Karaboyev street 56

Implementation summary

The Project is a part of the Bank's Integrated Approach that addressed urgently needed water infrastructure modernisation in the selected cities of Tajikistan in combination with sector wide reform support to create operationally and financially sustainable water supply operations in the country. The Project was able to improve the quality and reliability of water supply in central cities of Tajikistan, namely: Gissar, Shahrinav, Somoniyon, and Tursunzoda. As part of the Project eight new water reservoirs were constructed that resulted in increase of water storage by 8,000 cubic meters and improvement of water supply sustainability, twenty one units of pumps were installed/replaced, more than 90 kilometres of water mains were replaced, twenty two units of operational vehicles procured, chlorination and disinfection equipment installed and water metering introduced. Notably, the investment has helped to reduce energy consumption per cubic meter of produced water by 19 per cent on average.

The project also contributed to prevention of ground and watercourses pollution and improvement of public health and chlorine handling procedures, formalising HR practices, including improving equal opportunities with respect to gender and developing better Operational Health and Safety practices.

As a part of Transition impact, the Project has assisted to identify and implement the necessary corporate, financial and operational improvements (including management information systems and billing system), improve standards of transparency and governance, create a new customer relations strategy and complaints handling procedures. Importantly, the Project has assisted in creation of a first regional water company by merging smaller water utilities and achieving improved management and economy of scales.

PSD last updated

04 Dec 2020

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Environmental and Social Policy (ESP)

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More information on the EBRD’s practices in this regard is set out in the ESP.

Integrity and compliance

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OCCO is further responsible for investigating allegations of fraud, corruption and misconduct in EBRD-financed projects. Anyone, either within or outside the Bank, who suspects fraud or corruption should submit a written report to the Chief Compliance Officer by email to compliance@ebrd.com. OCCO will follow-up all matters reported. It will review all matters reported. Reports can be made in any language of the Bank or of the Bank's countries of operation. The information provided must be made in good faith.

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Independent Project Accountability Mechanism (IPAM)

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IPAM independently reviews project issues that are believed to have caused (or to be likely to cause) harm. The purpose of the mechanism is: to support dialogue between project stakeholders to resolve environmental, social and public disclosure issues; to determine whether the Bank has complied with its Environmental and Social Policy or the project-specific provisions of its Access to Information Policy; and where applicable, to address any existing non-compliance with these policies, while preventing future non-compliance by the Bank.

Please visit the Independent Project Accountability Mechanism webpage to find out more about IPAM and its mandate and how to submit a Request for review. Alternatively, contact IPAM by email at ipam@ebrd.com for guidance and more information on IPAM and how to submit a request.

Environmental and Social Documentation is not available for this project.

Selected procurement notices related to this project may be shown below. Further procurement opportunities related to this and other projects, if available, maybe be viewed in the EBRD Procurement Portal.

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No complaints about this project have been made so far.

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Central Tajik Water Rehabilitation Project

Overview

Project timeline

Company Contact Information

Project description

Client information

EBRD Finance Summary

Total project cost

Environmental & Social Summary

Technical Cooperation and Grant Financing

Company Contact Information

Implementation summary

PSD last updated

Understanding transition

Business opportunities

General enquiries

Environmental and Social Policy (ESP)

Integrity and compliance

Access to Information Policy (AIP)

Independent Project Accountability Mechanism (IPAM)