Uzbekistan Country Gender Assessment: Update

recommendations

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  Support the approval of the sector gender policy to increase and normalize women’s participation in the sector and in Uzbekenergo operations.
  
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  Consider sufficient allocations for Gap implementation during project planning, including funds allocated for capacity development and outreach interventions.
  
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  Use an Uzbekenergo-led skills-mapping exercise to redress the risk of job loss, including among women and other employees, and serve as basis for staff retraining and education.
  
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  Support efficiency studies within Gap interventions to measure the reduction in women’s work burden that results when sufficient electricity allows the use of labor- saving devices.
  
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  Include home businesses as a specific category of Uzbekenegro support for revisions in electricity tariffs, considering the potential vulnerability of households running such businesses.
  
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  In collaboration with the WCU and other state and non-state stakeholders, support outreach interventions to increase the key nationwide supervising entity.
  
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  advise Uzbekenergo to synchronize the criteria and norms for streetlighting, especially considering the specificity of rural and urban areas, and identify the key supervising entity nationwide.
  
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  Further encourage made by Uzbekenergo to support its staff in obtaining higher technical education, with equal opportunities for female and male staff.
  
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  Support joint strategies by Uzbekenergo, the Ministry of Higher and Secondary Special education, and other relevant stakeholders to introduce a 30% quota for young girls’ admission to technical universities with energy specialties.
  
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  encourage discussions between adB and Uzbekenergo management to identify the barriers to making the Nuristan Community Center operational.
  
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  Support tpp management’s information campaigns announcing the results of regular tests of steam and gas engine emissions, to overcome the people’s concerns about potential impact on morbidity in the tpp neighborhood.
  

Mainstreaming Gender in ADB Operations, by Sector 25

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