UZBEKISTAN
Sustainable Development in Rural Areas of Uzbekistan (dairy component)
(2016-2020)
For GIZ/ADECIA. Funded by EU.
Transfer of European Union know-how and technologies in the agro-food value-chains in partnership with local authorities and economic players for further developing socio-economic potentials in rural areas of Uzbekistan. The present component targeted the dairy sector and mostly smallholders.
Outputs:
- Income Generation: Further developed commodity value-chains mainly related to the agro-food sector (livestock breeding, gardening vegetable growing and services sector): technical and business models and marketing strategy
- Capacity development: Further developed and upgraded skills and techniques of economic players, including youth; implementation of modern technologies and training on their application; improvement of agro-product processing methods: Training of farmers, development of pilot integration facilities (milk collection)
- Institutional strengthening: Further strengthened and upgraded development planning capacities of regional and local authorities: strategic support, training of trainers, infrastructure development planning...
BCTI mobilized a team of 7 experts: livestock strategic planning, monitoring and information systems, fodder and feeding, cooperative development, animal husbandry, milk quality, processing and transformation, civil engineering.
Feasibility study for Inclusive and Climate lnvestment by leveraging Finance in the Livestock sector in the Republic of Uzbekistan
(2019-2020)
For Agence Française de Développement (AFD). Funded by AFD.
The project aims at promoting the sustainable and climate compliant development of the Uzbek livestock sector by supporting selected investments through credit, additional financial products and Technical Assistance to stakeholders and final beneficiaries. The instruments are a credit line to the Republic of Uzbekistan (represented by Ministry of Finance, MoF) on-lent mostly to 5 eligible participating financial institutions (PFI) proposed by the authorities for provision of Climate smart investment and additional support targeted to improve the access to investments and credit for smallholders with the support of national guarantees as collateral and interest subsidies from the National Fund for Entrepreneurship Support (NFES).
The Technical assistance will support end-beneficiaries to apply for eligible investment projects and support the eligible financial institutions in order to align them to the best international standard regarding climate and social responsibility in the selection and the monitoring of clients investment proposal, as well as insuring the diffusion of smart-climate technologies and sustainable practices in the livestock sector.
A three-tier approach combining credit, guarantee and subsidy will be used with increasing support to access to credit facilities for smallholders in a pro-active approach including technical assistance to develop the capacity of local service providers to raise awareness among smallholders on the availability of knowledge sharing support for technical issues and assist them in access to finance through grants and credit. A matrix of eligibility criteria for investors’ investment items and financial conditions will be established. This combination of actions will aim at increasing outreach, additionality and sustainability of the lending and credit/guarantee schemes.
The project will be set up in six priority regions and extend to 13 after completion of 50% of the financial objective. All livestock subsectors from production, production of fodder and feed up to processing and sub-product transformation are considered.
BCTI mobilized a team of 6 experts: value chain economics, livestock, banking and finance, gender, social and environmental analysis, development engineering.
Partner: VETEFFECT (NL) 