Advance Action on Recruitment of Consultants

Country/Borrower: Republic of Tajikistan

Title of Proposed Project: Khatlon Province Flood Management

Name and Address of Executing Agency:

Ministry of Water Resources and Land Reclamation
Mr. R. Barotov, Project Director
5/1 Shamsi Street, 734034 Dushanbe City,
Republic of Tajikistan
Tel: +99237 236 1613
Fax: +99237 236 1206
E-mail: irrigation@tjinter.com

Brief Description of Project:

The Project is expected to reduce socio-economic damage caused by floods in Kulyab, Vose, Farkhor and Hamadoni Districts. The outcome will be lessening flood frequency from once in 10 years to once in 100 years for these flood-prone Districts comprising a balance of structural (hardware) measures such as flood embankments and non-structural (software) measures such as flood preparedness, forecasting and warning and also strengthening of the institutional and legal setting taking full account of social, environmental and economic factors. Another important outcome will be greater community participation in flood management including voluntary workforces to ease the burden of flood infrastructure maintenance on the Government, communal management and harvesting of forested riparian buffer zones to supplement hard flood defenses and also yield significant local social and economic benefits, participation the design and testing lf local emergency plans, the operation of local flood warning systems, post flood surveys and establishment of local flood defense committees.

The Project has five components:
  1. Institutional and Legal Reforms;
  2. Structural Components;
  3. Non-Structural Component;
  4. Project Management and Monitoring; and
  5. Feasiblity Study for Vose and Kulyab

Brief Description of Consulting Services to be Procured:

The consultants will assist the executing agency in:
  1. Project Management;
  2. Legal and Institutional Arrangements;
  3. Establishment of Disaster Management Authority;
  4. Strengthening of Embankment Maintenance Capacity;
  5. Preparation of Flood Risk Map;
  6. Preparation of Emergency Plans;
  7. Strengthening of Hydro-meteorology Network; and
  8. Flood Warning System.

The Project will provide 528 person-months of consulting services, to be provided by international (114 person-months) and national consultants (414 person-months). An international consulting firm will be selected in accordance with ADB's Guidelines on the Use of Consultants (2007, as amended from time to time). The selection will be based on full technical proposal, using ADB's quality and cost-based selection (QCBS) method.

Please refer to the terms of reference for the consultants.

ADB Project Officer
Tetsuro Miyazato (632-6792)
Agriculture, Environment and Natural Resources Division, CWRD
tmiyazato@adb.org

Date of Advance Action Approval: 10 July 2007