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The additional financing will scale up the scope of the ongoing project, and will enable the government to complete the rehabilitation of a key transport corridor in southern Tajikistan by extending the project section, enhance the scope of the road asset management system (RAMS) of the Ministry of Transport (MOT), and increase beneficiaries of the program aiming at promoting local womens socioeconomic opportunities.
Project Name Road Network Sustainability Project (Additional Financing)
Project Number 54005-003
Country / Economy Tajikistan
Project Status Approved
Project Type / Modality of Assistance Grant
Source of Funding / Amount
Grant 0859-TAJ: Road Network Sustainability Project (Additional Financing)
Asian Development Fund US$ 43.20 million
Strategic Agendas Environmentally sustainable growth
Inclusive economic growth
Regional integration
Drivers of Change Gender Equity and Mainstreaming
Governance and capacity development
Knowledge solutions
Partnerships
Sector / Subsector
Transport / Road transport (non-urban)
Gender Equity and Mainstreaming Effective gender mainstreaming
Description The additional financing will scale up the scope of the ongoing project, and will enable the government to complete the rehabilitation of a key transport corridor in southern Tajikistan by extending the project section, enhance the scope of the road asset management system (RAMS) of the Ministry of Transport (MOT), and increase beneficiaries of the program aiming at promoting local womens socioeconomic opportunities.
Project Rationale and Linkage to Country/Regional Strategy
Tajikistan is a landlocked country, located at the center of the Central Asia, and road transport plays a vital role for international and domestic movements of goods and peoples. The road network under the MOTs jurisdiction totals 14,339 kilometers (km), comprising 3,348 km of international roads (23%), 2,127 km of national roads (15%), and 8,864 km of local roads (62%). There are several international corridors traversing the country, such as the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) corridors 2, 3, 5, and 6 and Asian Highways 7, 65, and 66, and the government prioritizes improving the international road networks along those corridors. With substantial assistance from development partners, including ADB, most of the international highways have been improved. Given that, the priority of the county has been recently shifted to the improvement of national roads most of which have not been well developed and have limited access of local populations to the improved international corridors and their last mile to basic services and necessities. Following the governments priority shift, ADB currently focuses on the improvement of national roads as well as assistance in operationalizing the asset management system of roads in the country.
The ongoing project (Road Network Sustainability Project), approved in November 2022, was originally expected to rehabilitate the two road sections, Dangara-Bokhtar (68.7 km) and Hulbuk-Kangurt (59.5 km), which link major economic centers and international corridors (CAREC corridors 5 and 6, and AH66) in southern Tajikistan. However, the Dangara Bokhtar section was reduced by 40 km, after the grant availability was reprogrammed to accommodate immediate needs of the government for recovery from the coronavirus diseases, and the grant was to finance the rehabilitation of the Dangara-Okmazor section (28.7 km) only. The government keeps its priority to complete the rehabilitation of the Dangara-Bokhtar section and agreed with ADB to include the remaining section (Okmazor-Bokhtar section) in the scope of the additional financing project. At completion of the ongoing and additional financing projects, the key corridors in southern Tajikistan will have been improved, helping strengthen the road network in the region and eventually the economic platform. In addition, the additional financing will help scale up the ongoing projects outputs related to RAMS development and womens socioeconomic empowerment.
Impact
Economic growth promoted
Safe and competitive connectivity established across the CAREC Region |
