Social impact assessment
Tajikistan
2005
Tajikistan
2005
Posted in Central and South Asia, Infrastructure and urban development, ALL PROJECTS, environmentskills, hiv, powersector, powersectorHR

Dushanbe – Kyrgyz Border Road Rehabilitation Project, Phase 1
Tajikistan, 2005
Sector: Infrastructure and urban development
Partners: Ministry of Transport, Asian Development Bank
Employer: SMEC International (Australia)
Project summary: Technical supervision of a project to rehabilitate a section of the road from Dushanbe to the Kyrgyz border
Position: Social and environmental impact specialist

Activities
- Implemented a benefit monitoring and evaluation program
- Developed performance indicators and project targets in cooperation with local and regional governments
- Established a set of baseline data
- Assessed Ministry of Transport management information systems in relation to monitoring activities
- Conducted training on operational social research methods and built the ministry’s capacity to conduct social impact assessments
- Assisted with an environmental sustainability assessment of the project
- Developed and implemented selective household surveys to measure the socioeconomic benefits of the project