PROJECT TITLE: Connectivity and Transport Sector Improvement Project - Reconstruction of the road M-41 Bishkek-Dushanbe-Termez (Category A)

CLIENT: State Committee of Automobile Roads / World Bank

PERIOD: 2024

PROJECT AIM:

Support preparation of the project’s investments covering infrastructure activities and to assess potential risks and impacts that will need to be addressed during the design phase and throughout implementation. Assessment and Preparation of Environmental and Social Instruments M-41 road reconstruction.

Description of actual services provided in the assignment

-Conduct an Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA), including a detailed Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP) for road upgrading works to be financed under the Program;

-Assessment of Relevant Legal, Policy, Regulatory, and Institutional Framework and Institutional Capacity to manage potential risks and impacts;

-Undertake a reconnaissance survey along the proposed corridors and collect relevant baseline information on the existing environmental and social conditions;

-Analysis of alternative alignment and engineering measures to avoid and/or minimize potential impacts (such as land acquisition impacts);

-Assess in accordance with all relevant ESSs in terms of direct, indirect, and cumulative environmental and social risks and impacts of the project in the short-term and the long-term resulting from both construction and operation phases of the proposed project;

-Detailed description of all proposed environmental and social control and mitigation measures that are needed based on risks arising out of the Project;

-Develop a Biodiversity Management Plan (BMP);

-Preparation of a project-level Environmental and Social Commitment Plan (ESCP) outlining key actions to prevent, minimize and mitigate potential environmental and social risks and impacts and measures to promote development benefits in line with the instruments and plans prepared;

-Organize public disclosure and public consultations.