Rural Infrastructure Development Project

The development objective of Prosperous Villages Project for Uzbekistan are to (i) improve the quality of basic infrastructure and (ii) strengthen participatory local governance processes in selected Qishloqs. This project has two components. 1) The first component, Demand-driven investments in basic infrastructure and services and local governance capacity support, has the following subcomponents: (a) Demand-driven investments in basic infrastructure and services; and (ii) Communications and community outreach, citizen engagement, local governance capacity building. 2) The second component, Project management, monitoring and evaluation, and capacity building, will provide support for (i) project management activities, including overall coordination and supervision of project implementation, communications and public outreach, project audits, and financing of incremental operating costs; (ii) project monitoring and evaluation (M and E) activities, transparency, and citizen feedback; (iii) managing a beneficiary feedback mechanism (BFM), including a grievance redress mechanism (GRM); and (iv) capacity building for regional hokimiyats for improved procurement, social and environmental safeguards practices, and quality of infrastructure designs.