Project Details

Project Number LN6049-PAK
Project Name KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT PROJECT
Sector/Thematic Area None
Financing Agency AsDB
Modality C01
Description The Government of Pakistan requested PRF from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to prepare the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Water Resources Development Project. The project supports the Government of Pakistan's Vision 2025 and ADB's country partnership strategy for Pakistan, 2021-2025, which emphasizes addressing the food security constraints, building climate resilience, and investing in value-chain rural infrastructure developments importantly improving water storage and regulatory capacity, irrigation system upgrades, facilitating institutional transformation and sustainable maintenance and operational management of water resource systems. Outputs and Activities: Output 1: Detailed engineering design, procurement, and safeguards documents prepared: The PRF will support the detail engineering design including technical, economic, financial, environmental, social safeguards, gender, climate change assessment, and beneficiary community participation. Detail design will include the review, validation, or upgrading of preexisting and ongoing studies, as well as additional surveys and studies. Integrated and innovative solutions using digital technologies, modernized irrigation methods, climate-smart agriculture practices, linkage of rural agriculture business with markets and strengthening the role of women will be incorporated in the design. The PRF will deliver projects with high level of procurement and safeguards readiness and will include updating the land acquisition and resettlement planning documents, social impact assessment, environment impact assessment, economic analysis, and gender analysis and a gender action plan. Output 2: Project readiness financing implementation support provided and capacity of executing and implementing agencies improved: The PRF will augment project start-up and early implementation capacity of the executing and implementing agencies particularly in resettlement plan implementation, procurement transactions and strengthening the overall PRF implementation management capacity. The PRF will consult farming communities including women and other stakeholders and prepare agriculture value chain assessment for investment design. Digitization of irrigation and drainage system asset condition, farms level delineation, water resources and demand measurements, and system performance will strengthen capacities to sustainably design the operation and maintenance of the planned investments.
Adaptation Finance (thousand USD) 90.0
Mitigation Finance (thousand USD) 0.0
Total Project Climate Financing Amount (thousand USD) 90.0
Mitigation Objective Climate components
Adaptation Objective Climate components
Region Asia