Developing Green and Inclusive Regional Gateway (ADB-58228-001)

Regions
  • Europe and Central Asia
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Countries
  • Georgia
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Financial Institutions
  • Asian Development Bank (ADB)
International, regional and national development finance institutions. Many of these banks have a public interest mission, such as poverty reduction.
Project Status
Approved
Stage of the project cycle. Stages vary by development bank and can include: pending, approval, implementation, and closed or completed.
Bank Risk Rating
C
Environmental and social categorization assessed by the development bank as a measure of the planned project’s environmental and social impacts. A higher risk rating may require more due diligence to limit or avoid harm to people and the environment. For example, "A" or "B" are risk categories where "A" represents the highest amount of risk. Results will include projects that specifically recorded a rating, all other projects are marked ‘U’ for "Undisclosed."
Voting Date
Oct 29, 2024
Date when project documentation and funding is reviewed by the Board for consideration and approval. Some development banks will state a "board date" or "decision date." When funding approval is obtained, the legal documents are accepted and signed, the implementation phase begins.
Borrower
Government of Georgia
A public entity (government or state-owned) provided with funds or financial support to manage and/or implement a project.
Sectors
  • Agriculture and Forestry
  • Education and Health
  • Energy
  • Infrastructure
  • Law and Government
  • Transport
  • Water and Sanitation
The service or industry focus of the investment. A project can have several sectors.
Investment Type(s)
Loan
The categories of the bank investment: loan, grant, guarantee, technical assistance, advisory services, equity and fund.
Investment Amount (USD)
$ 15.00 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Loan Amount (USD)
$ 15.00 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Bank Documents
Primary Source

Original disclosure @ ADB website

Updated in EWS Dec 8, 2024

Disclosed by Bank Oct 29, 2024

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Project Description
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As stated by the ADB, the proposed Facility will finance five small-scale activities to support preparation and implementation of transformative projects. The activities will include feasibility studies, detailed designs, preparation of safeguard documents, financial and economic analysis and operation and maintenance for ensuing projects, as well as pilot-testing of advanced technologies and management approaches, extending capacity building and implementation support, governance reform support and knowledge products. The sub-loans for individual activities will be extended at government's submission of activity requests, the execution of the activity sub-loan agreement for each activity, and the fulfillment of the terms and conditions and undertakings in the facility agreement.

The priority sectors under the SEFF will include: (i) public finance management; (ii) energy; (iii) transport, logistics, and trade facilitation; (iv) water and other urban infrastructure; (v) agriculture, rural development, and natural resources; and (vi) education and health. The support will particularly focus on several areas including improving Georgia's connectivity to transform the country into a regional trade and transit hub; developing green cities with improved urban livability along transit corridors; tapping Georgia's clean energy generation and export potential; addressing the skills mismatch through increasing the quality, access, and affordability of gender-responsive secondary, tertiary and vocational education services; increasing access to quality healthcare and others.

SEFF will mainstream the climate action in ensuing projects by aligning them with the Paris Agreement to help boost the climate resilience of systems, infrastructure and institutions. Knowledge and advisory services will encompass cost-benefit studies and other analytics to fill data gaps and generate evidence to encourage climate action.

The SEFF will support gender equality through gender-responsive actions, designed to increase women's meaningful participation in sectors where they are currently underrepresented, and facilitate women's financial inclusion, labor market participation, and entrepreneurship in the green economy. The project will include proactive gender-responsive measures to ensure that women's equal and meaningful engagement in consultation processes and training programs as well as advancing their economic empowerment through equal access to economic opportunities.

Investment Description
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Private Actors Description
A Private Actor is a non-governmental body or entity that is the borrower or client of a development project, which can include corporations, private equity and banks. This describes the private actors and their roles in relation to the project, when private actor information is disclosed or has been further researched.

As stated on the company's LinkedIn account, United Airports of Georgia LLC, is 100% state owned enterprise. As the airports authority of the state, UAG owns all airports in the country, including 3 international and 2 domestic airports at the moment. All those airport terminals have been fully rebuilt and all airport infrastructure has been modernized during last 8 years.

United Airports of Georgia LLC is the designated implementing agency for the project.

Private Actor 1 Private Actor 1 Role Private Actor 1 Sector Relation Private Actor 2 Private Actor 2 Role Private Actor 2 Sector
- - - - United Airports of Georgia LLC Contractor Transport

Contact Information
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ADB Team Leaders:

Tea Papuashvili - Project Officer (Infrastructure), Central and West Asia Department

Markus Roesner - Director, SG-TRA
Phone: +63 9688593550
Email: mroesner@adb.org

Oleg Samukhin - Senior Transport Specialist
Phone: +63 9999991435
Email: osamukhin@adb.org

George Kiziria - Senior Project Officer (Infrastructure)
Phone: +995 322250619104
Email: gkiziria@adb.org

Executing Agency - Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia (MOESD):

Mariam Kvrivishvili - Deputy Minister
Phone: +(995 32) 299 10 81
Email: m.kvrivishvili@moesd.gov.ge
Address: Sanapiro Str. N2, Tbilisi 0114, Georgia

ACCESS TO INFORMATION

You can submit an information request for project information at: https://www.adb.org/forms/request-information-form

ADB has a two-stage appeals process for requesters who believe that ADB has denied their request for information in violation of its Access to Information Policy. You can learn more about filing an appeal at: https://www.adb.org/site/disclosure/appeals

ACCOUNTABILITY MECHANISM OF ADB

The Accountability Mechanism is an independent complaint mechanism and fact-finding body for people who believe they are likely to be, or have been, adversely affected by an Asian Development Bank-financed project. If you submit a complaint to the Accountability Mechanism, they may investigate to assess whether the Asian Development Bank is following its own policies and procedures for preventing harm to people or the environment. You can learn more about the Accountability Mechanism and how to file a complaint at: http://www.adb.org/site/accountability-mechanism/main.

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