According to the news released on 19 November, 2021 from the official website of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $180 million loan to help three cities in Cambodia included Kampot, Bavet, and Poipet in which is under the Cambodia Livable Cities Investment Project to improve urban infrastructure and boost economic competitiveness.
There will be over 140,000 residents in the three cities Kampot, Bavet, and Poipet access better wastewater and solid waste management services. And it will help the cities reduce flooding by upgrading their urban stormwater and drainage systems. The project also aims to strengthen the capacity of municipal governments to deliver urban services.
“More Cambodians are moving to secondary metropolises, but limited access to civic structure and services, as well as environmental declination, has worsened living conditions and hurt civic profitable growth,” said ADB Urban Development Specialist Wei Kim Swain. “The project will help the government upgrade sanitation and waste operation and raise living norms, especially among low-income homes vulnerable to the health, profitable, and environmental goods of poor sanitation. It’ll also help the cosmopolises attract private sector investment and produce jobs.”
Cambodia’s civic population rose to 6 million in 2019 from 2.6 million in 2008, which has posed a challenge for external governments to give services. In 2019, about 47 of Cambodia’s civic population had access to piped water force in residences. Undressed sewage is generally discharged into the open terrain through combined seamsters and road rainspouts or laterally via open conduits. Solid waste services are limited. A large proportion of solid waste is left uncollected, ditched in open conduits, the open terrain, or burned.
Cambodia’s National Strategic Development Plan, 2019 – 2023 points to address those challenges. The plan prioritizes investments in public structure, including water force and sanitation, and sets a public target for all metropolises to give safe water by 2025 and strengthen the solid waste operation. ADB’s country cooperation strategy for Cambodia, 2019 – 2023 supports profitable growth along the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Southern Economic Corridor, where Kampot, Bavet, and Poipet are located. Bavet and Poipet are entry points to Vietnam and Thailand, and the harborage megacity Kampot has come to a tourism destination. In Bavet and Poipet, the design will support the recuperation of being conduits and the construction of a wastewater treatment factory, sewerage network, new stormwater rainspouts, and tips.
In Kampot, the design will expand the sewerage network and lay out a plan for original governments to come tone-sufficient service providers. The design will deliver a road chart to boost profit collection by external governments, which have reckoned heavily on subventions from the central government to give services. The road chart will include tariff reform to cover megacity operations and conservation and a plan to ensure effective service delivery, including an assessment of openings for private sector participation. ADB’s new design will be supported by a $ 2 million specialized backing entitlement from the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction. The specialized backing will concentrate on the sustainable and climate-flexible development of the metropolises, including perfecting land use planning, as well as institutional capacity and governance.
ADB will work with the Ministry of Land Management Urban Planning and Construction in coordinating with the sharing metropolises and the ministries for public nonsupervisory and policy reforms. ADB is committed to achieving a prosperous, inclusive, flexible, and sustainable Asia and the Pacific while sustaining its sweats to annihilate extreme poverty. Established in 1966, it’s possessed by 68 members — 49 from the region.
