Regional : Strengthening Urban Investment Planning and Capacity for Project Preparation and Implementation in Central and West Asia
The TA is aligned with the following impact: integrated urban planning and development in Central and West Asia improved. The TA will have the following outcome: urban sector project identification, preparation and implementation improved in Central and West Asia. The outputs are: (i) national urban assessments prepared and aligned with ADB's CPS cycle; (ii) access to information and knowledge increased; and (iii) project identification, formulation, preparation and implementation strengthened.
Project Details
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Project Officer
Lu, Xijie
Central and West Asia Department
Request for information -
Country/Economy
Regional -
Sector
- Water and other urban infrastructure and services
- Project Name
- Strengthening Urban Investment Planning and Capacity for Project Preparation and Implementation in Central and West Asia
- Project Number
- 53381-001
- Country / Economy
- Regional
- Afghanistan
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Georgia
- Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyz Republic
- Pakistan
- Tajikistan
- Turkmenistan
- Uzbekistan
- Project Status
- Closed
- Project Type / Modality of Assistance
- Technical Assistance
- Source of Funding / Amount
TA 9856-REG: Strengthening Urban Investment Planning and Capacity for Project Preparation and Implementation in Central West Asia Source Amount Technical Assistance Special Fund US$ 225,000.00 - Operational Priorities
- OP1: Addressing remaining poverty and reducing inequalities
- OP2: Accelerating progress in gender equality
- OP3: Tackling climate change, building climate and disaster resilience, and enhancing environmental sustainability
- OP4: Making cities more livable
- OP5: Promoting rural development and food security
- OP6: Strengthening governance and institutional capacity
- OP7: Fostering regional cooperation and integration
- Sector / Subsector
Information and communication technology / ICT industries and ICT-enabled services
Water and other urban infrastructure and services / Urban policy, institutional and capacity development
- Gender
- Some gender elements
- Description
- The TA is aligned with the following impact: integrated urban planning and development in Central and West Asia improved. The TA will have the following outcome: urban sector project identification, preparation and implementation improved in Central and West Asia. The outputs are: (i) national urban assessments prepared and aligned with ADB's CPS cycle; (ii) access to information and knowledge increased; and (iii) project identification, formulation, preparation and implementation strengthened.
- Project Rationale and Linkage to Country/Regional Strategy
Cities in Central and West Asia have unprecedented opportunities to transform human wellbeing and catalyze economic development by 2030. At the same time, they face several development challenges in managing rapid urbanization including growing infrastructure deficits, increasing risks of climate change and disasters, environmental stress, limited institutional capacities, and lack of interagency coordination. While these challenges are often most apparent and difficult to address in urban settings, there is limited analytical work in the urban sector for the developing member countries (DMCs) in Central and West Asia. This leads to: (i) unplanned growth, (ii) contradicting development priorities, and (iii) deficient ownership. Robust and timely urban sector assessment is key to understanding major sector issues facing these individual countries to help guide policy formulation and ADB's strategic urban interventions.
ADB has supported the DMCs with sector analysis, urban policy development, and project preparatory assessments through technical assistance projects that are not always aligned with the country partnership strategy (CPS) cycle. Processing and administering stand-alone country-specific technical assistance projects of similar nature and objective can be inefficient and time consuming. Designed to provide an overarching analytical framework and strategic context for integrated urban development, National Urban Assessment (NUA) would analyze the urbanization process and identify the main environmental, social, and economic development issues relating to the urban sector, ADB's value addition, and new areas of ADB support to make cities more livable (green, competitive, resilient and inclusive) in line with Strategy 2030. A dedicated regional technical assistance to support the preparation of NUAs will help establish ADB's continuous upstream sector involvement, inform country partnership strategy (CPS), and identify new areas of engagement to ensure high impact and sustainable project pipeline.
With the advent of digital economy, open platforms for seamless client, partner, and staff engagement and connected data are envisioned under ADB's Digital Agenda 2030. Development is also about knowledge, and data amplifies the power of development assistance as the building block of knowledge. Data-driven analytics and evidence-based decision making will help pave the way for strategic dialogue, better policy formulation and informed project identification and preparation that lead to impactful and sustainable development. Under Strategy 2030, ADB is set to strengthen its role as a knowledge provider and will bring more value to the DMCs by combining finance and knowledge. A platform that provides DMCs and ADB staff access to key urban data and indicators will build the knowledge base for ADB's urban operations and catalyze collaboration and innovation.
With the rapid growth and complexity of DMCs's ADB-funded urban operations, the requests for ad hoc, urgent project assistance and the need for higher efficiency have grown. Currently, it is difficult to timely mobilize resources to accommodate such requests and needs. A programmatic (and yet flexible) approach to channel resources within ADB to assist the DMCs with project preparation and implementation will help reduce the risk of delays and missed targets and improve efficiency of project delivery.
- Impact
Integrated urban planning and development in Central and West Asia improved.
Project Outcome
- Description of Outcome
Urban sector project identification, preparation and implementation improved in Central and West Asia
- Progress Toward Outcome
Implementation Progress
- Description of Project Outputs
National urban assessment reports prepared
Urban knowledge hub established
Project preparation and implementation strengthened
- Status of Implementation Progress (Outputs, Activities, and Issues)
- Geographical Location
- Afghanistan - Nation-wide; Armenia - Nation-wide; Azerbaijan - Nation-wide; Georgia - Nation-wide; Kazakhstan - Nation-wide; Kyrgyz Republic - Nation-wide; Pakistan - Nation-wide; Tajikistan - Nation-wide; Turkmenistan - Nation-wide; Uzbekistan - Nation-wide
Summary of Environmental and Social Aspects
- Environmental Aspects
- Involuntary Resettlement
- Indigenous Peoples
Stakeholder Communication, Participation, and Consultation
- During Project Design
- During Project Implementation
Contact
- Responsible ADB Officer
- Lu, Xijie
- Responsible ADB Department
- Central and West Asia Department
- Responsible ADB Division
- Urban Development and Water Division, CWRD
- Executing Agencies
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Asian Development Bank
Timetable
- Concept Clearance
- -
- Fact Finding
- -
- MRM
- -
- Approval
- 31 Oct 2019
- Last Review Mission
- -
- Last PDS Update
- 13 Nov 2019
Funding
TA 9856-REG
| Approval | Signing Date | Effectivity Date | Closing | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Original | Revised | Actual | |||
| 31 Oct 2019 | - | 31 Oct 2019 | 30 Jan 2022 | 30 Jan 2023 | 28 Apr 2023 |
| ADB | Cofinancing | Counterpart | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gov | Beneficiaries | Project Sponsor | Others | |||
| 225,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 225,000.00 |
| Date | Amount |
|---|---|
| 05 May 2023 | 220,118.31 |
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| Title | Document Type | Document Date |
|---|---|---|
| Strengthening Urban Investment Planning and Capacity for Project Preparation and Implementation in Central and West Asia: Technical Assistance Completion Report | TA Completion Reports | Aug 2023 |
| Strengthening Urban Investment Planning and Capacity for Project Preparation and Implementation in Central and West Asia: Small-scale Technical Assistance Memo | Small-scale Technical Assistance Memo | Oct 2019 |
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| Title | Document Type | Document Date |
|---|---|---|
| Strengthening Urban Investment Planning and Capacity for Project Preparation and Implementation in Central and West Asia | Validation of Technical Assistance Completion Reports | May 2024 |
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Tenders
| Tender Title | Type | Status | Posting Date | Deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TAJ National Urban Assessment (NUA) Coordinator | Individual - Consulting | Closed | ||
| Team Leader (Senior Urban Development Urban Specialist) | Individual - Consulting | Closed |
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