Regional: Delivering a Climate Change Strategy for Central and West Asia
This knowledge and support technical assistance (TA) will support the delivery of a Climate Change Strategy and an Action Plan for Central and West Asia to strengthen integration of climate change considerations in Asian Development Banks (ADB) financed interventions in the developing member countries (DMCs) of the region. It will prepare robust climate mitigation and adaptation pipelines aligned with the Paris Agreement and responsive to DMCs climate change priorities. The TA will support interventions on departmental, sectoral and country levels with key activities including development of a regional strategy, upstream climate assessments, climate pipeline development, government dialogues and capacity building.
Project Details
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Project Officer
Maass, Malte
Central and West Asia Department
Request for information -
Country/Economy
Regional -
Sector
- Agriculture, natural resources and rural development
| Project Name | Delivering a Climate Change Strategy for Central and West Asia | ||||
| Project Number | 56025-001 | ||||
| Country / Economy | Regional Armenia Azerbaijan Georgia Kazakhstan Kyrgyz Republic Pakistan Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan |
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| Project Status | Active | ||||
| Project Type / Modality of Assistance | Technical Assistance |
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| Strategic Agendas | Environmentally sustainable growth Inclusive economic growth |
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| Drivers of Change | Gender Equity and Mainstreaming Governance and capacity development |
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Agriculture, natural resources and rural development / Agricultural policy, institutional and capacity development - Water-based natural resources management Education / Education sector development - social protection initiatives Energy / Energy sector development and institutional reform Health / Health sector development and reform Public sector management / Public administration Transport / Transport policies and institutional development Water and other urban infrastructure and services / Urban policy, institutional and capacity development |
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| Gender Equity and Mainstreaming | Effective gender mainstreaming | ||||
| Description | This knowledge and support technical assistance (TA) will support the delivery of a Climate Change Strategy and an Action Plan for Central and West Asia to strengthen integration of climate change considerations in Asian Development Banks (ADB) financed interventions in the developing member countries (DMCs) of the region. It will prepare robust climate mitigation and adaptation pipelines aligned with the Paris Agreement and responsive to DMCs climate change priorities. The TA will support interventions on departmental, sectoral and country levels with key activities including development of a regional strategy, upstream climate assessments, climate pipeline development, government dialogues and capacity building. | ||||
| Project Rationale and Linkage to Country/Regional Strategy | Climate change is a major challenge as the CWRD region is vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and hosts some of the most energy intensive economies. Many CWRD DMCs have set ambitious decarbonization targets. Yet these DMCs face considerable capacity challenges to effectively operationalize these commitments and the transition to a climate-resilient and low-carbon development pathway. The key challenges for systematic climate change mainstreaming in the region are (i) insufficient information of climate change impacts, (ii) limited technical capacity of DMCs and CWRD staff to integrate climate aspects into project design, and (iii) lack of identification of entry points for climate investments across sectors and modalities. More upstream climate assessments are required to support DMCs to increase climate relevance of projects, ensure alignment with the Paris Agreement, and develop more adaptation investments predicated on climate outcomes. Linking ADB's investments with climate priorities of its DMCs will require a coherent strategy, increased climate capacity of DMC officials, and enhanced technical support for all sectors. | ||||
| Impact | Low-carbon development and climate resilience in CWRD region advanced |
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| Description of Outcome | Climate change strategy for CWRD DMCs operationalized |
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| Description of Project Outputs | Climate change strategy including action plan for CWRD DMCs finalized Upstream climate assessments and opportunities for scaled up climate finance in key sectors supported Technical capacity to integrate climate considerations and priorities in investment programming strengthened |
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| Geographical Location | 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 |
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| Stakeholder Communication, Participation, and Consultation | |
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| Consulting Services | A firm, as well as five international and four national individual consultants, will be engaged to implement the TA. The recruitment of individual consultants is required to secure specialists with specific qualifications for target sectors and/or subsectors and . The CWER TA team will be responsible for overall coordination and supervision of the consultants, who will be recruited in two phases. The firm and the international senior climate change specialist (also the TA coordinator) will be recruited first. They will identify priority DMCs and sectors and/or subsectors and develop a detailed plan of activities in the identified sectors and/or subsectors and DMCs. In the second phase, the remaining individual consultants will be recruited. The international senior sector climate change specialists will be engaged for sector-specific technical support. |
| Procurement | Equipment to be procured includes laptops, software, and digital materials and associated services. |
| Responsible ADB Officer | Maass, Malte |
| Responsible ADB Department | Central and West Asia Department |
| Responsible ADB Division | Environment, Natural Resources & Agriculture Division, CWRD |
| Executing Agencies |
Asian Development Bank |
| Timetable | |
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| Concept Clearance | 24 May 2022 |
| Fact Finding | - |
| MRM | - |
| Approval | 26 Jul 2022 |
| Last Review Mission | - |
| Last PDS Update | 26 Jul 2022 |
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| Approval | Signing Date | Effectivity Date | Closing | ||
| Original | Revised | Actual | |||
| 26 Jul 2022 | - | 26 Jul 2022 | 31 Dec 2025 | - | - |
| Financing Plan/TA Utilization | Cumulative Disbursements | |||||||
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| ADB | Cofinancing | Counterpart | Total | Date | Amount | |||
| Gov | Beneficiaries | Project Sponsor | Others | |||||
| 3,000,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3,000,000.00 | 13 Jan 2023 | 20,688.00 |
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| Title | Document Type | Document Date |
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| Delivering a Climate Change Strategy for Central and West Asia: Technical Assistance Report | Technical Assistance Reports | Jul 2022 |
| Delivering a Climate Change Strategy for Central and West Asia: Technical Assistance Concept Paper | Concept Papers | May 2022 |
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Tenders
| Tender Title | Type | Status | Posting Date | Deadline |
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| (Senior) Public Finance and Climate Change Specialist | Individual - Consulting | Closed | 10 Jan 2023 | 23 Jan 2023 |
| Senior Climate Change Specialist | Individual - Consulting | Closed | 31 Dec 2022 | 06 Jan 2023 |
| Capacity building, communication, and climate strategy | Firm - Consulting | Closed | 02 Nov 2022 | 30 Nov 2022 |
| Senior Climate Change Specialist and TA Coordinator | Individual - Consulting | Closed | 07 Oct 2022 | 20 Oct 2022 |
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