Tender for National Consulting Services in Uzbekistan

The CAREC Institute is looking for a National Consultant in Uzbekistan to join the team of international and national consultants for research project TA-6694 REG — Water sector financial governance gap analysis in Central Asia: from planning to practice.

The goal of the research project is to map the major water financing needs of the water sector and identify potential financing schemes in Central Asia, mostly focusing on major water infrastructure.

The project will use results of the CAREC Institute’s previous research on water sector financing and additional information from other similar projects, activities, and research.

The specific objectives of the project are following:

•Mapping major water financing gaps of water sector of five Central Asian countries of CAREC region — mapping water infrastructure priorities.

•Understanding major obstacles for efficient water sector financing, classification of the major problems, highlighting policy and management actions for improving water sector financing.

•Developing water sector financing improvement action-plan.

•Assessment of both efficiency and performance of various water financing initiatives recently introduced in Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan.

•Preparing and conducting a series of policy dialogues among water agencies, national and international financial institutions, and private financiers in order to develop joint implementation mechanisms for water sector financing.

Applications are accepted until April 26, 2023, through the ADB Consultant Management System:

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