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Community-Based Infrastructure Services Sector Project (Supplementary Grant) The Community Based Infrastructure Services Sector Project  (the initial Project) follows a sector lending approach and supports the main objective of the Government of Kyrgyz Republic (Government) of human development by providing: (i) improved community-based infrastructure services; and (ii) training programs to develop institutional capacity. The Project area covers four oblasts (provinces) - Chui, Jalal-Abad, Osh, and Batken. The Project was designed to provide basic infrastructure services in 730 villages and seven small towns to about 1.5 million persons, of whom approximately 70% were living below the poverty line.

The proposed supplementary grant is required to meet the financing gap that has emerged due to significant increases in construction costs during the implementation period. As a result, the water supply systems in 118 subprojects were prioritized out of the originally planned 240 subproject. The proposed supplementary grant will implement the remaining 122 subprojects by providing much-needed water supply and sanitation services for the rural population as prioritized by the Government. Based on the lessons learned from the initial Project, proposed changes include: (i) simplification of the subproject selection criteria to ensure the selection of community-owned demand-driven and cost effective subprojects; (ii) improvement of technical design criteria for implementing simple, technically sound and cost effective subprojects; and (iii) improvement of implementation arrangements to achieve efficiency and quality during project implementation.
COVID-19: Vaccine Support Project under the Asia Pacific Vaccine Access Facility The project responds to the government's request for ADB support under APVAX to help meet COVID-19 vaccine response challenges. In accordance with the guidance provided in Appendix 5 of the APVAX policy, the project investment component under APVAX will support ADB's procurement and project implementation. The project is aligned with the following impact: COVID-19 spread, morbidity and mortality reduced, and confidence of citizens restored.  The project's outcome is priority populations are vaccinated against COVID-19.  The project outputs are described below.
New Water Intake to the City of Osh The activity under the facility will support the development of an additional water intake for the city of Osh. Existing intake was completed in September 2016 under the Emergency Assistance for Recovery and Reconstruction project, but was not enough to cope with the needed demand in clean and uninterrupted water supply during rainy season and related high water turbidity. The new water unit will be located upstream of the existing one, in a section of the river that will not be affected by the torrential rains that cause the water turbidity on the existing intake, provide 400,000 people with access to safe, clean and reliable water supply. The activity will improve the development impact and sustainability of the project.
Senior Unsecured Loan to Bai Tushum Bank for Broadening Access to Finance The project consists of a senior $8 million loan to Bai-Tushum Bank (BTB) for the purpose of funding small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the Kyrgyz Republic. SMEs represent 40% of the Kyrgyz GDP and 60% of all jobs. Access to finance, however, remains an issue for many individuals and SMEs in the Kyrgyz Republic and according to a May 2013 report by OECD is considered the main obstacle.  Although credit to the private sector has grown from 28.5% in 2012 to 34.5% in 2013, private credit to GDP remains low at 16.3%. This is lower than, for instance, Kazakhstan 20.3% and Uzbekistan 24.6%. Additionally, the Kyrgyz Republic is considered the second poorest country in Central Asia with one third of the population living below the poverty line.

Client/Sponsor:  BTB was established in 2000 by ACDI/VOCA with the support of CARITAS, a Swiss relief agency providing microcredit services to private entrepreneurs, traders, farmers, and micro and small agricultural enterprises.  Although it has been in operation since 2000 as an MFI, it obtained a banking license in November 2012. BTB?s main shareholders are the Microcredit Agency Financial Fund Bai-Tushum  which holds 46.3%; Triple Jump, Blue Orchard Private Equity Fund and Credit Suisse Microfinance Fund each holding 15.2% and individuals holding 8.1%.  BTB is the seventh largest bank in the Kyrgyz Republic in terms of market share (as measured by both total assets and total loans at year end 2013). The bank serves 32,000 clients and provides a range of financial services to entrepreneurs, SME borrowers and small corporates. The branch network comprises 7 branches, 45 outlets and 11 representative offices throughout the Kyrgyz Republic.  Approximately 90% of BTB?s loan portfolio is outside Bishkek and 36% of its client base are women borrowers.  As of 30 June 2014, total assets were $138.2 million, net income was $471,800, and equity was $17.4 million. The ROE was 7.7% and ROA 1.1% at year-end 2013.

BTB has been growing steadily since the political crises of 2010. BTB?s management has been gradually repositioning the bank from a focused microfinance lender to a broader market lender as part of the next phase of the bank?s growth considering the opportunities presented after the crises and the government?s efforts to create an enabling and conducive environment for SMEs. This transition has been supported, in part, by an IFC TA.  The bank?s total the gross loan portfolio was $102.4 million (June 2014) of which 23% represents SME loans ($23.5 million).  The bank projects an increase in its SME portfolio to $62.5 million by 2016. Approximately 30% of the bank?s SME portfolio is comprised of dollar denominated loans.  Asset quality is good.  NPLs for the total loan portfolio amounted to 0.9% and for SMEs, 1.4% as of 30 June 2014.
Uch-Kurgan Hydropower Plant Modernization Project The proposed project will replace ageing electrical and mechanical equipment for power generation and transmission at the Uch-Kurgan hydropower plant (HPP) in the Naryn River cascade and undertake silt and sedimentation removal which hinders the proper operation of hydromechanical equipment of the HPP. This will (i) increase the availability of clean hydropower for domestic use and potential export to Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, (ii) enhance the integrity of hydromechanical structures and, ensure safe and optimal reservoir operation, and (iii) contribute to multiyear water supply management from the Naryn River cascade, which is essential for downstream agriculture mainly in Uzbekistan.
Investment Climate Improvement Program System Support Project The Project aims to reduce the cost of doing business by streamlining business registration process and export and import clearance procedures. Specifically, the Project will support the establishment of a one-stop shop for business registration and a pre-customs single window for export and import clearance. The Project will have the following main components.

1.	One-Stop Shop Business Registration. The Project will support the implementation of an automated one-stop shop that will allow all registration formalities to be completed in MOJ.  This will significantly reduce the time taken to register a business (from 21 days to 3 days), and will reduce the uncertainty associated with the approval process. A summary of the one-stop shop blueprint is in Supplementary Appendix A.

2.	Pre-Customs Single Window. The Project will support the implementation of a pre-customs single window to enable businesses to submit applications and receive permits and certifications for exports and imports through a single channel. Currently, pre-customs clearance requires at least 12 separate approvals and about 25 days clearance time.  By streamlining and harmonizing regulations and automatic processes, the pre-customs single window will enable businesses to obtain clearances within 5 days and through a single administrative document
COVID-19: Pandemic Emergency Project The project is aligned with the following impact: Mitigate the impact of COVID-19 outbreak in Kyrgyzstan (Kyrgyz National Contingency Action Plan).
Urban Transport Electrification Project The proposed project will jumpstart a long-term transition towards a zero tailpipe-emission transport sector in the Kyrgyz Republic. It will comprise four interlinked outputs: (i) zero-emission tailpipe bus fleet in Bishkek municipality upgraded; (ii) bus depot infrastructure upgraded; (iii) pilot green mobility corridor established; and (iv) Bishkek bus operation sustainability improved. The project is economically justified by the reduced need for fossil fuel imports, vehicle operating cost savings, better air quality, and reduced carbon emissions, which will promote energy security, improve public health, and contribute to climate change mitigation. The project will also make Bishkek more livable and foster gender equity.
Senior Unsecured Loan in Kyrgyz Investment and Credit Bank Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Finance The project consists of a senior US$10 million loan to Kyrgyz Investment and Credit Bank for the purpose of funding small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the country.
COVID-19: Vaccine Support Project under the Asia Pacific Vaccine Access Facility The project responds to the government?s request for ADB support under APVAX to help meet the COVID-19 vaccine response challenges. In accordance with the guidance in Appendix 5 of the APVAX policy, the rapid response component will support procurement of vaccines and the project investment component will support project implementation.The project is aligned with the following impact: COVID-19 spread reduced, and confidence of citizens restored.  The project?s outcome is priority populations vaccinated against COVID-19.  The project outputs are described below.
Output 1. COVID-19 vaccines procured and delivered to designated points. Under the rapid response component, the project plans to finance vaccines procurement with UNICEF as the procurement agent through a turnkey service either through COVAX or directly and, possibly, through bilateral agreements. 
Output 2. Capacity to implement the vaccination program strengthened. Under the project investment component, the output will help strengthen the MOHSD?s capacity to effectively and efficiently manage procurement and delivery of COVID-19 vaccines.
Power Sector Rehabilitation Project The project will: (i) rehabilitate Toktogul hydroelectric power plant by replacing existing mechanical and electrical equipment; (ii) establish an electricity transactions settlement center; (iii) conduct a safety assessment of dams on the Naryn cascade, and (iv) conduct a public information program on sector reforms. The project will improve energy supply, reduce system commercial losses, identify dam rehabilitation measures, and inform the public on sector developments.
Tax Administration Reform and Modernization Project The project will contribute positively to the Kyrgyz Republic's economic growth and poverty reduction by establishing a State Tax Service (STS) that (i) helps promote macroeconomic stability and provides fiscal space for priority economic and social expenditures through increased revenue collection; (ii) minimize corruption and practices good governance and transparency, and (iii) facilitates private sector development.

The outcome of the Project is an effective, modern, and efficient STS that achieves improvement in tax collection.
Investment Climate Improvement Program - Subprogram 3 Subprogram 3 of the Investment Climate Improvement Program (ICIP) is the last subprogram of the program cluster approved in 2008. The program continues to address binding constraints to private investment and to sustainable economic growth and employment generation by (i) reducing the cost of regulatory compliance, (ii) improving access to finance, (iii) enhancing workers' skills, and (iv) facilitating public-private partnerships.
Issyk-Kul Sustainable Development Project The Issyk-Kul Sustainable Development Project (the Project) is the first phase in a longer-term initiative by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to support environmental management and to improve urban service delivery in the Issyk-Kul Oblast. ADB and government collaboration in Issyk-Kul will ensure that urban services interventions will increase access to potable water and safe sanitation, including use of proven technologies for treatment and disposal of solid and liquid waste. The Project will (i) improve urban infrastructure, including sewerage and sanitation, solid waste management, water supply, and community upgrading; and (ii) improve service delivery through better enterprise resource management. 

The Project covers the cities of Balykchy, Cholpon-Ata, and Karakol. Its outputs are:

(i)	replacing a 13.4-kilometer (km) sewer network (specifically addressing pumping mains to sewage treatment plants); rehabilitating pumping stations in Balykchy and Karakol; extending the sewer network by 12 km to uncovered areas in Karakol; and supplying relevant tools, equipment, and vehicles for sewer maintenance; 

(ii)	management of 42.5 hectares of existing waste dumps improved to increase environmental safety and sites operation lifetime and solid waste collection service coverage increased in three project cities;

(iii)	installing 8,550 water meters, training vodokanal enterprises in meter reading and leak control, constructing a presedimentation treatment tank at the Karakol water headworks, replacing a 2 km corroded transmission main in Balykchy, and reconstructing 10 boreholes (with treatment, energy efficient pumps, storage, and protection facilities) in Balykchy and Cholpon-Ata; 

(iv)	providing in the three project cities, water and sanitation facilities in pre-schools, schools and  health care organizations; and 

(v)	implementing an enterprise resource management component comprising a management information system, accounting and financial management, geographic information system, asset inventory and management, and institutional effectiveness program for cities, vodokanal enterprises and tazalyk enterprises.
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Voices for Just Climate Action SSN Global Our vision is a world where civil society is heard and respected as it influences and co-creates locally relevant, inclusive and fundable climate solutions that deliver real benefits to people and nature as part of local and global responses to the climate crisis. We believe that civil society can play an important, influential role on the global level to enhance societal support for a just climate transition, better influence global governance systems to reflect locally-shaped solutions, and enhance civic space for national civil society climate coalitions. The global programme Theory of Change will be informed and refined based on Country Programme implementation and changing contexts, using an adaptive learning approach. The global component is the interlocutor between, and builds on, the Country Programmes and will act as the mechanism to ensure Southern voices are amplified in the global arena. The global programme follows the logic of the general ToC but focuses on creating the enabling conditions globally to have an even greater impact at national level. The guiding principle is that it is both outward and inward looking, guided by a bottom-up agenda. The global component will be flexible and responsive to country demands and open to opportunities that arise. Furthermore, the global component is the vehicle by which the Alliance can deliver in a unified manner.
Catalyzing Climate Finance for the Southern African Development Community Since 2016, the Southern Africa Climate Finance Partnership (SACFP) has coordinated knowledge sharing and capacity enhancement efforts amongst key institutions from six focus countries in southern Africa (Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia & Zimbabwe). The project aimed to encourage and support the development of country—owned and –managed climate finance project portfolios that attract finance from the likes of the Green Climate Fund (GCF), and which mobilise private sector investment where possible, to address country climate change priorities. Through the support of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) SSN is initiating a third phase to the SACFP, commencing in April 2020 and extending for a further three years. The new phase will expand the focus of the project, looking at catalysing climate finance for the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Drawing lessons from prior phases, the project has refined its focus to provide targeted knowledge brokering support across three activity areas: 1. Applied Research - Identify knowledge gaps pertaining to barriers and enablers for accessing and implementing international climate finance and avenues for overcoming these through knowledge brokering; and sharing of emerging lessons through a suite of academic research papers and practitioner-targeted knowledge products. 2. Enhancing Capacity - Build the capacity of practitioners to develop and implement financially feasible and socially responsive climate related projects through the piloting of a formal practitioner-training programme with a partner academic institution, facilitating peer-to-peer learning exchanges, and the further piloting of a youth internship programme. 3. Targeted Technical Assistance – Facilitate learning engagements between institutions and technical experts to understand emerging policy and process constraints and collaboratively develop solutions through the adoption of innovative tools, resources and strategic approaches; informing on-going research. A targeted selection of SADC-based Nominated and Accredited Direct Access Entities to the Green Climate Fund, National Designated Authorities to the Green Climate Fund & a range of climate project co-financiers.
Adaptation Research Alliance The Adaptation Research Alliance (ARA) is a coalition of institutions across the adaptation research and action communities that brings together both traditional ‘research funders’, such as science councils, and ‘action funders’, such as development donors, multilateral financial institutions, philanthropic organisations and the private sector – motivated by the shared goal of scaling investment in action-oriented research. The ARA views action research as an iterative process of interdisciplinary and co-produced scientific research that creates enhanced long-term understanding and mutually beneficial knowledge that is usable in practice. The mission of the ARA is therefore to accelerate and scale investments in action-oriented research in developing countries, that addresses the pressing knowledge needs for adaptation and resilience of the most vulnerable, builds capacity at all stages from research to action, strengthens research–implementation linkages, and promotes greater learning. The ARA consists of its members (the Plenary), a Coordination Unit, a Steering Board, and a Co-chair Group (which is part of the Steering Board).
Voices for Just Climate Action SSN Zambia The Voices for Just Climate Action (VCA) Programme is being implemented in 7 countries, including Zambia. In VCA Zambia, the vision is a Zambia where civil society is heard & respected by influencing & co-creating locally relevant, inclusive and fundable climate solutions that deliver real benefits to people & nature as part of a local & global response to this crisis. The target group of the VCA intervention in Zambia is centered around those who are most vulnerable to climate change impacts: women, youth, urban poor, rural communities, indigenous groups and marginalized groups. These underrepresented groups often have critical perspectives on power structures and alternative approaches to the climate crisis. VCA will operate in ten districts in the Lower Kafue Basin and Lusaka Province regions namely: Luangwa, Rufunsa, Chongwe, Lusaka, Kafue, Chirundu, Siavonga, Chikankata, Mazabuka and Itezhi Tezhi. 

The Alliance will also engage a wide array of partners including CSOs, community groups, research institutions, government, and the private sector at community, local, national, and international levels, as well as seek to establish a set of unusual alliances to enable innovative and unique ways of working for long-lasting impact. This will include the creation of multi-stakeholder platforms to co-create joint solutions between actors (e.g. Food Systems Labs), Public-Private-Partnerships (PPPs) outlining formal engagements for climate action, linking and strengthening existing social and grassroots movements between rural and urban communities, Public-Private-Community-Partnerships (PPCPs), such as informal social audits, by bringing the community, particularly those most vulnerable, and duty bearers together on issues of climate change. As a VCA Alliance member, SSN brings extensive experience and expertise on knowledge and partnership brokering for climate-compatible development, and on building unique relationships with decision-makers in various contexts. Through the Alliance, SSN aims to support the generation, dissemination, and brokering of information, building the capability of partners to enable them to
respond innovatively to the challenges and opportunities that climate change presents. Knowledge intermediaries and knowledge translators are roles that we often refer to as part of ‘Knowledge Management’ and are key roles that SSN provides in the VCA programme. Knowledge brokering, on the other hand, includes activities by knowledge/process brokers and innovation brokers, focusing on networks, relationship-building, and systemic change through knowledge co-production.
Voices for Just Climate Action SSN Indonesia The Voices for Just Climate Action (VCA) Programme is being implemented in 7 countries, including Indonesia. In VCA Indonesia, the programme has identified the Jakarta, Papua and East Nusa Tenggara provinces as target areas for programme implementation. This is because Papua and East Nusa Tenggara provinces have a high prevalence of exploitative practices without getting the required attention from the national government in both urban and rural areas. The programme will be rolled out in the three provinces to strengthen the capacity to co-create local climate solutions and amplify voices through storytelling and building the capacity of local actors. This will be complemented by national-level advocacy and influencing. The alliance partners will also scale up evidence to influence policy at the national level to demonstrate what is possible in other country regions. The focus of the Indonesian programme is to join civil society forces from these regions to influence at a national level. These connections are critical, relatively new and add value in the Indonesian context. The VCA programme has brought on board a number of contracted civil society organisations and coalitions to advance the project objectives and deliver on the programme. As a VCA Alliance member, SSN brings extensive experience and expertise on knowledge and partnership brokering for climate-compatible development, and on building unique relationships with decision-makers in various contexts. Through the Alliance, SSN aims to support the generation, dissemination, and brokering of information, building the capability of partners to enable them to respond innovatively to the challenges and opportunities that climate change presents. Knowledge intermediaries and knowledge translators are roles that we often refer to as part of ‘Knowledge Management’ and are key roles that SSN provides in the VCA programme. Knowledge brokering, on the other hand, includes activities by knowledge/process brokers and innovation brokers, focusing on networks, relationship-building, and systemic change through knowledge co-production.