Electric Power Sector Capacity Development Project aims at increasing the power supply and improving the power generation efficiency in Uzbekistan, Mizuho Kubota, Project Formulation Advisor of JICA Uzbekistan Office told Trend in an interview.

The project for the reconstruction of the Scientific and Practical Medical Center for Neurology and Stroke shall be launched in cooperation with Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in Uzbekistan’s capital of Tashkent, Masato Matsuno, country officer, Division of Central Asia and the Caucasus, JICA told Trend in an interview.

Construction of modern power-generating combined-cycle gas turbines is one of the main elements of the strategy of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in the energy sector of Uzbekistan, the agency told Trend on Dec. 7.

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) expects to implement the Provincial Cities Water Supply and Sewerage Project in Azerbaijan by late 2020, JICA has told Trend.

Since the beginning of its cooperation with Azerbaijan, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has financed four loan projects in the country in the amount of $900 million in the sectors of energy, water supply and sewerage.

Uzbekistan plans to construct 16 combined-cycle power plants by 2020 to increase the country's energy capacity.

The United Nations Development Programme and Japanese government supported the cross-border cooperation between Tajikistan and Afghanistan.