EBRD to Fund Tajikistan Water Projects

Tajikistan is to carry out a $22.7m water supply project with funding from the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).

The EBRD will extend a $10m loan to State Unitary Enterprise Khojagii Manziliyu Kommunali to finance water projects in the cities of Chkalovsk, Gafurov, Isfara, Kanibaidam, Karaikkum, Khorog and Taboshar.

The project will be co-financed by a $10m grant from the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs and a $2.7m grant from the Global Environmental Facility Special Climate Change Fund.

The water supply project will benefit 200,000 people.