DUSHANBE, June 13, 2013, Asia-Plus – An agreement on financing the Environmental Land Management and Rural Livelihoods Project between Tajikistan, the International Development Association (IDA) and the International Bank for Reconstruction Development (IBRD) was signed here on June 12.
The document was inked by Mr. Safarali Najmiddinov, Minister of Finance of Tajikistan and Ms. Marsha Olive, World Bank Country Manager for Tajikistan.
According to the Ministry of Finance (MoF) Secretariat, the objective of the Environmental Land Management and Rural Livelihoods Project for Tajikistan is to enable rural people to increase their productive assets in ways that improve natural resource management and resilience to climate change in selected climate vulnerable sites.
The project reportedly has 3 components: 1) rural production and land resource management investments component will provide financing in the form of small grants for subcomponents; 2) knowledge management and institutional support component will provide facilitation services and technical and institutional support for rural populations to plan, implement and manage rural investments. Relevant data collection and analysis, and information exchange for wider adoption of sustainable land management will also be supported; and 3) project management and coordination component will finance the operating costs of an Implementation Group (IG) within the Committee for Environmental Protection (CEP) to carry out project management functions.
A total cost of the Project is 14.8 million USD, including a US$9.45 million grant provided under administration of the IDA in the framework of the pilot climate change adaption program and a US$5.4 million grant of the Global Environment Fund under administration of the IBRD.
