Ferghana Valley Water Resources Management Project Phase II

Funding Agency World Bank, European Union, Borrower

Implementing Agency Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources of Uzbekistan

Budget: €156,169,314.00

Country: Uzbekistan

Start Year: 2017

End Year: 2024

Description: The Second Phase of the Fergana Valley Water Resources Management Project for Uzbekistan aims to improve water management and restore irrigation systems in the project area encompassing three regions: Andijan, Fergana and Namangan. The main goal of the FVWRMP-2 is to introduce the most optimal set of measures for rehabilitation and modernization of the existing irrigation systems, based on the principles and conceptual approaches of the IWRM Plan in Fergana Valley, which outlines the ways to achieve more efficient water sector management based on the principles of co-management, environmental sustainability and social equity. Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: Construction safety measures, recovery of tree plants, utilization of wastes, demolished concretes and camlets and metal scraps, watering the soil for reducing the dust, working during the day for avoiding the noise, etc; Utilization of wastes, demolished concretes and canalets and metal scraps, watering the soil for reducing the dust, working during the day for avoiding the noise, etc and rehabilitation safety measures; utilization of wastes, metal scraps, watering the soil for reducing the dust, construction and rehabilitation safety measures; and using of groundwater aquifer only with the permission of the State Committee for Nature Protection and subject to the agreement of the Committee of Geology and Mineral Resources.

Sector: Water

Beneficiaries: Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources

Contact:

Team Leader IJsbrand Harko de Jong