Sanitation, wastewater and waste, housing and communal services

The project will support Tajikistan in (i) rehabilitating and expanding climate-resilient water supply and sanitation (WSS) infrastructure, pilot testing the establishment of district metering areas (DMAs) for nonrevenue water (NRW) management in selected districts of Dushanbe city and rehabilitation of the south sewage collector, benefitting 352,000 people; and (ii) developing a business model for the State Unitary Enterprise Dushanbevodokanal (DVK) to improve the sustainability of operations, including an accountability and incentive mechanism with a performance benchmarking matrix and smart management system. The project will pilot test a behavior change component for raising public awareness on water usage and conservation and the benefits of smart meters. This is the first urban sector project of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Tajikistan, demonstrating efficient network management with potential for scaling up citywide. It is listed in the ADB country operations business plan for Tajikistan, 2018 2020.

The objectives of the Dushanbe Water Supply and Wastewater Project for Tajikistan are: (a) to improve reliability of water supply and wastewater services in selected areas in Dushanbe City; and (b) to improve the operational performance of the Dushanbe Water Utility. There are three components to the project, the first component being institutional strengthening, capacity building of DVK and water meters provision. The component will finance the next phase of the institutional-strengthening and capacity-building (ISCB) activities being implemented under DWSP2 and will encompass a scaled-up institutional support to improve the operational and managerial capacity of the DVK in the areas of business planning through development of 5-year business plan that would cover technical, investment planning, operations, organizational restructuring, and human resource management planning aspects, customer relations, financial systems and procedures, and technical capacity of the organization. The second component is the water and wastewater systems improvements. This component will support consultancy services for preparation of engineering designs and construction supervision, and physical investments aimed at improving priority water supply and wastewater systems in Dushanbe City. Finally, the third component is the project management. This component will finance general operating costs of the DVK and its Project Implementation Unit (PIU) to coordinate, implement, administer, and monitor the project. In addition, this component will finance technical assistance to support the PIU to (a) carry out project monitoring and evaluation (M&E) activities, (b) conduct annual audits for the project and DVK, and (c) update the existing communication including citizen engagement measures to apply transparent criteria for the grievance redress mechanisms for the project activities.

The objective of the Project is to strengthen the capacities of Vodokanals of Pyanj and Khamadoni district for water service management. Introduction of volumetric tariff system;
Improvement of the capacities of Vodokanals on water service management;
Conducting trainings on job and out of the country;
Improvement the capacity of Vodokanal staff on operation and maintenance of water supply facility.

Strenthening policies, Introduction of WHO recommended tool- WASH FIT (Facility improvement tool)

The project aspires to support long-term uptake of risk-based management approaches in policy and practice and strengthen government capacities in delivering effective drinking-water quality surveillance, especially in rural areas. The project consists of the following building blocks:

1. Scaling-up application of water safety plans (WSP) in rural Tajikistan through

institutional capacity building on WSPs and educating national WSP facilitators;
implementing demonstration WSPs in ten rural communities, including providing support to managerial and infrastructural improvements;
supporting the development of a national WSP roadmap and a national WSP guidelines
2. Developing effective and sustainable strategies to drinking-water quality monitoring in rural areas through

Building capacities on risk-based monitoring approaches;
Improving laboratory capacities of Sanitary Epidemiological Services to enable routine analysis of core health-relevant water quality parameters;
3. Promoting the human right to water and raising awareness on the interplay of safe water, sanitation, hygiene behavior and disease prevention.