According to bank's website, the proposed project aims to improve access to climate resilient water supply services in Kampot province, Cambodia. Cambodia is urbanizing rapidly, driven by economic growth, industrialization, and increasing rural-to-urban migration, with one-third of the population projected to live in urban areas by 2030. While major municipal investment has historically been concentrated in Phnom Penh, secondary cities and provincial hubs, including those in Kampot province, face severe infrastructure deficits. Nationally, only 21% of the population has access to safely managed drinking water supply services. In secondary cities, aging or nonexistent bulk water treatment and distribution networks leave communities increasingly unable to cope with climate-induced droughts and floods. The Project will address these challenges through a combination of climate-resilient infrastructure and institutional strengthening. The Project has the following components:

Component 1: Water Treatment Plant and Intake facility
This component will support construction of a new surface water intake facility on the Teuk Chhou River and a new water treatment plant (WTP) with a design capacity of 117,000 cubic meters per day. The WTP will include a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system for automated monitoring and control.

Component 2: Water transmission and distribution network
This component will support construction of 282 kilometers of large-diameter transmission pipeline and about 20 kilometers of distribution network in greenfield and underserved areas.

Component 3: Capacity Building & Project Management
This component will support project management during implementation, including training and capacity-building activities for national and provincial government entities, the Kampot Provincial Water Utility (KPWU), and Private Water Operators (PWO) to strengthen their capacity to support project implementation. 

AIIB: USD225 million

Government of Cambodia: USD25 million 

Project Team Leader: Ankur Agrawal 

Title: Senior Investment Officer 

Email: ankur.agrawal@aiib.org 

ACCESS TO INFORMATION

You can submit an information request for project information at: https://www.aiib.org/en/contact/information-request/index.html

ACCOUNTABILITY MECHANISM OF AIIB

The AIIB has established the Accountability Mechanism for Project-Affected People (PPM). The PPM provides Òan opportunity for an independent and impartial review of submissions from Project-affected people who believe they have been or are likely to be adversely affected by AIIBÕs failure to implement the ESP in situations when their concerns cannot be addressed satisfactorily through Project level GRMs or AIIB Management processes.Ó Two or more project-affected people can file a complaint. Under the current AIIB policy, when the bank co-finances a project with another development bank, it may apply the other bank's standards. You can refer to the Project Summary Information document to find out which standards apply. You can learn more about the PPM and how to file a complaint at: https://www.aiib.org/en/about-aiib/who-we-are/project-affected-peoples-mechanism/how-we-assist-you/index.html

The complaint submission form can be accessed in Arabic, Bahasa Indonesia, Bengali, Chinese, English, Tagalog, Hindi, Nepali, Russian, Turkish, or Urdu. The submission form can be found at: https://www.aiib.org/en/about-aiib/who-we-are/project-affected-peoples-mechanism/submission/index.html