Karabalta Water and Wastewater Rehabilitation Sub-Project: Corporate Development and Stakeholder Participation Programme, EBRD

The EBRD is investing €2 mln loan and EUR 3 mln grant funds from the EBRD Shareholder Special Fund to help improve the supply of water to about 40,000 people living in the city of Kara-Balta, which is one of the largest industrial and transport hubs in the northern part of the Kyrgyz Republic. Investment of 5 mln EUR for rehabilitation of the water and wastewater infrastructure of Karabalta is being made. Project focuses on the improvement of the water supply and treatment facilities, rehabilitation of the network to reduce losses, institutional support, improvement of billing and collection efficiency, and improvement of financial and operational management.

The general objective of the Consultant’s assistance to Kara-Balta Municiplity is to help consolidate potable water related operations of Kara-Balta Water Company and Electric Power and Water Supply Industrial Association and provide institutional building assistance to the merged company in order to achieve improvement of billing and collection efficiency, and improvement of financial and operational management. Besides K.S. Solutions provides the assistance in translation and local technical and respective local coordination support.

► Local project coordination (Corporate Development Programme);

► Stakeholder Participation Programme;

► Interpreting and translations.