The program was established to help achieve the government’s objectives of improving institutional effectiveness in delivering services, enhancing operational and commercial efficiencies, and achieving financial sustainability. The program aimed to improve WSS services in provincial cities and secondary towns in eight provinces. Physical investments included rehabilitation and expansion of the WSS infrastructure. Nonphysical investments included sector planning, policy analysis and reforms, support for project management, vodokanal management, a customer awareness campaign, and hygiene promotion. The program was implemented in four tranches. Tranche 4 aimed to improve sewerage and waste treatment services in Fergana, Margilan, and Tashlak cities and strengthen institutional and project implementation capacity.
This report validated the completion report's assessment of the project. IED overall assessment: Successful.