Date and Participants of Consultations | Stakeholders’ feedback |
November 25, 2021 Consultations with the Central Government. | Overall CPF structure and potential priority areas in support of the Government reforms and objectives for 2022-2026. |
November 26 and December 6, 2021 Consultations with the Central Government. | Potential interventions for further poverty reduction and human capital development (education, health, social protection). |
December 10, 2021 Face-to-face and virtual consultations with participants from Karakalpakstan and Khorezm region representing the local authorities, academia, CSOs, youth, and private sector. | - call for social and economic development of remote districts of Karakalpakstan and Khorezm region
- demand for job creation in urban and rural areas
- need for development of infrastructure, transport links and logistics
- demand in agricultural land reform
- development of agriculture and irrigation
- desirability of water resource management
- call for preservations of local natural resources, flora and fauna
- solicit for development of eco-tourism
- demand for water supply and sanitation services
- better access to finance for SMEs and private entrepreneurs
- need to simplify CSOs registration
- expand services for persons with disabilities and eliminate discrimination of their rights
- render support for young and women entrepreneurs
- request for women’s social and economic empowerment, etc.
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January 11, 2022 Consultations with the Central Government. | Further support for agriculture and irrigation development. |
January 18, 2022 Tashkent Online consultations with participants from Surkhandarya, Kashkadarya and Bukhara regions representing the local authorities, academia, CSOs, youth, and private sector. | Health &Education: - call for development of infrastructure
- need to improve family health and capacity of staff
- introduce post-COVID medical services in rural areas
- create better access to health facilities in remote areas
- fight corruption in education and health
- further develop vocational education
Agriculture: - prevent soil degradation and direct more efforts to solving water resource problems
- promote export of agri. products
- expand pest management
- need to support livelihoods
- introduce smart water
Infrastructure: - develop urban infrastructure
- help to equip techno-parks
- further promote digitalization
Access to finance: - introduce lower interest rates and longer duration of commercial bank credits
Inclusion: - improve government service to disabled, establish proper mechanisms of help;
- target vulnerable groups (migrants, people in prison, children, people with disabilities
Gender - plea to create more jobs for women
- desirability of targeted livelihoods support
Other: - expand production of construction materials
- further support to crafts development
- develop tourism cluster and services sector
- introduce innovation and commercialization in various sectors
- request for equal and transparent WB funds allocation between regions
- need to strengthen the role of WB gender action plan
- raise awareness of communities about WB projects as there is lack of information about the opportunities and limits for involvement of NGOs in WBG project implementation and monitoring
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January 20, 2022 Tashkent Online consultations with participants from Jizzakh, Samarkand and Syrdarya regions representing the local authorities, academia, CSOs, youth, and private sector. | Public services: - expand access to sewerage system
- strengthen cadastre system (introduce digital land registration)
- call for solid waste processing (in urban areas)
- need to render support to health clusters
- request to establish education clusters (link between higher education and employment)
Infrastructure: - urgency in domestic roads rehabilitation
- need for reconstruction of secondary schools
- demand of new preschools construction
- desire for rehabilitation of health facilities and irrigation system
Private sector: - ease the access to finance to support tourism
- need for subsidized loans
- facilitate access to technology (fishery)
- minimize excessive requirements and bureaucracy of the local banks
- promote export along the entire value chain in horticulture
Inclusion & Gender: - introduce inclusive education for children with disabilities
- create new mechanisms for inclusion of people released from prison
- psychological support with regard to family -specific relations
- support economic opportunities for women
- promote lifelong education and focus on digital technologies especially in rural areas
Other: - request to move WS project in Syrdarya covering 5 districts (under WASIS project)
- call for reconsidering the mechanism of disbursing WB’s credit lines – when they are disbursed via local banks interest rate for businesses hikes notably
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January 21, 2022 Tashkent Online consultations with participants from Andijan, Namangan and Ferghana regions representing the local authorities, academia, CSOs, youth, and private sector. | Public administration: - decentralize some functions from Khokimiyts to self-governing bodies – mahalllas
- improve public services (waste management)
Private sector: - promote export
- expand private sector participation in the economic sectors(education, tourism)
- improve infrastructure (rehabilitate highway roads, reconstruct preschools and water supply facilities)
- simplify access to finance to support agriculture (horticulture sector, livestock, small-scale household horticulture production, production of greenhouses, fertilizers)
- enable business environment
- promote new tools in NGO development
- introduce integrated approach in promoting gender equality
- promote prevention of domestic and gender violence through higher education
Other: - request to resume former WB small grants programs to NGOs;
- more widely involve CSOs in WB project monitoring
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January 26, 2022 Tashkent Consultations with the Central Government. | - speed up transformation and privatization of the state-owned enterprises and commercial banks
- further develop the stock market
- promote exports and investment.
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January 28, 2022 Tashkent Consultations with the Central Government. | ICT, e-commerce, artificial intelligence, “fintech” technologies development |
January 28, 2022 Tashkent Consultations with the Central Government. | Energy Sector Reform, Reforms on Country Transition to a “Green” Economy and Ensuring “Green Growth” of the National Economy |
January 31, 2022 Tashkent Consultations with the Central Government. | Land resources management and privatization of non-agricultural land plots, urbanization, housing and utility services delivery. |
February 1, 2022 (TBC) Tashkent Online consultations with participants from Tashkent city and Tashkent region representing the local authorities, academia, CSOs, youth, and private sector. | Transparency: - more support anticorruption measures needed
- request to make publicly available all project documents
- facilitate public monitoring of project implementation
Efficient natural resources management: - more attention to environmental issues
Higher education: - support to capacity building
- construct education facilities with access to water, good equipment
- make higher education affordable for girls
- simplify access to finance for research
Inclusion: - promote inclusive economy and ecology
- establish day care centers for children with disabilities
Gender: - apply integrated approach to the problem of supporting women;
- support creation of valid gender statistics
- introduce gender quota for leading positions
- promote inclusive economy and gender
Private sector: - introduce digitalization of environmental maps
- support independent courts for business
- raise awareness in preventing human trafficking and extremism
Other: - request to focus on youth
- need to hold constant consultations with private sector and ease an access to WBG to discuss private sector projects
- demand for more inclusion of private sector in WB Projects
- involve NGOs to WB project implementation
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February 2, 2022 Tashkent Consultations with the Central Government. | Transformation and privatization of the state-owned enterprises and commercial banks, development of the stock market, promotion of exports and investment. |
February 3, 2022 Tashkent Consultations with the Central Government. | Good governance, public administration, better public services for citizens and the private sector. |
February 10, 2022 Tashkent Consultations with the Central Government. | Revision and update of the CPF priority areas supporting the Government’s reforms and objectives for 2022-2026. |
February 16, 2022 Tashkent Consultations with the Oliy Majlis (Parliament) | Gender equality, women’s economic and social empowerment, female entrepreneurship. |
February 2022 (TBC) Consultations with the Central Government. | Revision and update the CPF structure and financial envelope |
February 2022 (TBC) Tashkent Online consultations with the international development partners. | Coordination to avoid duplications and to maximize synergies in international assistance |
