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Asian Development Fund VII: Progress Report (1999)

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E. Kyrgyz Republic: Flood Emergency Rehabilitation

48. The fifth project example demonstrates the continued capacity of ADF to respond to a DMC’s priority needs in an efficient way. On September 1998, the Bank approved an ADF loan of $5 million for the project to assist the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic in the efficient and expeditious rehabilitation of public infrastructure damaged by severe floods and landslides that occurred in May-June 1998 in Jalal-Abad and Osh provinces.¹⁸ The affected public infrastructure included roads and bridges, power transmission and distribution and hot water transmission lines, drinking water transmission lines and sewers, telephone lines, schools, and health care facilities. The Bank loan will finance about 79 percent of the total cost of the required works, which is estimated at $6.3 million. The Government has conveyed its deep appreciation to the Bank for the prompt processing and approval of this emergency assistance. The assistance includes provision for (i) advance procurement, and (ii) retroactive financing of up to $1 million equivalent for the project. These have enabled the Government to complete before the advent of winter most of the urgent civil works needed to temporarily restore the damaged public infrastructure. The major civil works for permanent rehabilitation of the damaged infrastructure is expected to commence in March 1999.

49. The project will ease the hardships that the affected communities are experiencing. It is estimated that more than 85,000 people will directly benefit from the project. It will provide proportionately more benefits to poor people in the affected areas.

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