Climate Finance demand for Sustainable Livestock Development (Uzbekistan_AFD)

The technical assistance is part of the “Inclusive and climate investments finance in the livestock sector of Uzbekistan” Project, financed with a loan of $100 million (COL) on June 28, 2001 by the Agence Française de Developpement (AFD). The project aims at promoting the sustainable and climate compliant development of the livestock sector of Uzbekistan by supporting selected investments through credit lines, guarantees, investment subsidies and Technical Assistance to stakeholders and final beneficiaries.

The project executing agency is the Committee for Veterinary and Livestock Development under the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

In order to reach project objectives, a Technical Assistance is provided to support access to banking services for sustainable and climate-smart investments to targeted end-beneficiaries. The TA dedicated to the stimulation of the demand for the proposed climate-smart credit lines is designed to reach a large number of beneficiary in two direction: (i) improving knowledge on livestock sector and climate change (ii) while supporting a better access to sustainable banking services. In that regard, TA should strengthen relevant professional organizations skills on climate change and sustainable investments in the livestock sector as well as capacities to provide trainings in order to rely on them to widespread the trainings to be proposed.

Technical support is provided to a range of producer’s organisations with the following objectives:

• Raise awareness of professional organisations’ staff and members on animal productions impacts, and vulnerabilities to, climate change.
• Develop these organisations’ staff and members knowledge on access to banking services, sustainable finance, financial literacy, management skills, accounting and all other relevant field related to climate-smart business planning;
• Strengthen these organisations’ abilities to provide trainings not only to their members but also to a broader interested public consisting of the whole livestock sector value-chain with a specific focus on smallholders (Dehkans, Tomorqas), Family enterprises, Sole entrepreneurs, and cooperatives;
• Ensure that this technical support will allow relevant professional organization to set-up a network of training and consulting services dedicated to giving advises to their members and the targeted public on:
  o climate-smart farming practices ;
  o climate change mitigations and adaptation in the Livestock sector ;
  o sustainable investments opportunities ;
  o access to banking services and economic/business capabilities (financial literacy, management skills, accounting, business planning, etc.)

The stimulation of the demand for the credit line proposed in the framework of this technical assistance needs to address two core technical aspects:

• The need for farmers, as well as all the professional network of the value chains, to understand and fully endorse the reality of climate change and how the livestock sector more specifically affects climate change (both negatively through greenhouse gas emissions but also positively). Depending on the considered value chain, this would be an opportunity to inform farmers about good practices and corresponding investments that could be implemented at farm level to limit their negative impacts and increase positive ones.
• The need for farmers to develop business management skills in order to build their capacities to prepare and present bankable projects. To do so, they should be supported by qualified technico-economic analysts, with in-depth knowledge of the national animal production value chains in which the farmer is willing to invest.

The project is carried out in partnership with the company Agriconsulting Europe S.A. (AESA)  and Aykan Invest LLC.

Duration: 05/2026 – 03/2028