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the pap–Namangan–andijan railway line, upgraded railway infrastructure along the rail line,
improved safety of railway operations, and reduced cost of travel for the general population,
compared with to road transport.
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5. Good Practices
and Lessons Learned
CaReC Corridor 2 road investment projects are categorized as having some gender elements
(SGe) and generally do not require a gender action plan (Gap). However, a previously
developed Gap was focused mainly on strengthening women’s economic capacity along the
CaReC Corridor.
Gap outputs are mainly concerned with developing the capacity of local community leaders
and female residents in small remote rural areas along the road construction: Sarimaya village/
Khazarasp district/Khorezm region, Kirchin and pungon villages of pop district/Namangan
region. Box 11 contains a more detailed discussion of good practices exercised in Gap
implementation for the CaReC Corridor 2 project.
6. recommendations
Current pipeline road projects seeking to incorporate gender-responsive roadside facilities and
improve gender mainstreaming
in future construction
activities should
•
construct separate washrooms, well-lit rest areas, mother and baby rooms, and other
facilities for safe and timely women’s movement;
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•
allocate separate kiosks in market areas to improve sales activities;
•
develop gender-responsive land acquisition and resettlement plans;
•
consider the specificity of women-led businesses
and their social roles, and envision
allocating more resources for developing or rehabilitating feeder roads in rural areas to
ease women’s daily activities and livelihoods; and
•
support women entering business by including them in roadside enterprises.
the government should”:
•
support gender mainstreaming for all industries, particularly in transport sectors, by
facilitating a long-term gender policy that includes women’s employment and capacity
building;
•
in collaboration with the Ministry of Higher and Secondary Vocational education,
assess factors related to insufficient rural transport that affects girls’
attendance in
secondary general and secondary vocational educational institutions;
•
at the design stage of effective gender mainstreaming (eGM) or SGe projects, support
the implementing and executing agencies in the Gap development process;
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adB. 2017.
Uzbekistan:
Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC). Corridor 2 Road Investment
. UZB: L2772.
Completed March 2015. UZB: L2746 and L2868. t2/t3 ongoing.
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For instance, Uzbekistan Railway (Uzbekistan temir Yollary) JSC has already designed and provided gender-sensitive
amenities,
such as mother and child rooms, in major railway stations. adB. 2017.
Summary Poverty Reduction and Social
Strategy (SPRSS).
Pap-Namangan–Andijan Railway Electrification Project
.
Mainstreaming Gender in ADB Operations, by Sector
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Box 11: Central Asia regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 2
road Investment Project—Outcomes of the Gender Action Plan
Gender action plan interventions were implemented by two local nongovernment organizations:
(i) the Karakalpak branch of the Business Women’s association (tadbirkor ayol) for 100 female
residents of Sarimaya village, and (ii) the association for Support of Children and Families for 100
female residents of Kirchin and pungon villages (Namangan region).
On-site training covered
topics such as the basics of entrepreneurship and the legal aspects of doing business.
after completing their training, most participants (80%) prepared business plans for food or
bread making, tailoring, and sewing; of these, 10 participants submitted loan applications to a local
commercial bank.
a
three women entrepreneurs registered individually and joined the Hunarmand
(Handicraft) association; in 2015, 11 women officially registered
as individual entrepreneurs
(footnote a).
during group discussions, female respondents from Kirchin village emphasized the impact of their
training, which produced a positive shift in finding ways to generate income and increased their
self-esteem and status in the family and community.
b
In small rural places, the female population is usually stable because women are very unlikely
to leave their households and migrate outside the country or to the city. therefore, capacity
development interventions have a long-lasting effect, contributing
to economic and human
empowerment of the trainees and positively affecting the lives of women, households, and
communities.
the Central asia Regional economic Cooperation (CaReC) Corridor 2 presents several successful
practices of national ownership and partnerships built as part of Gap implementation to contribute
to the overall success of the project. For instance, an emergency ambulance, a drugstore, and an
information kiosk for reproductive health resulted from a partnership between
Gazli polyclinic and
Sarimaya, a local
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