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The sector development program modality proved to be effective in helping the government to reform the education sector. It responded to the sector's major problem of insufficient financing, with the policy-based grant providing the government financial incentives to reform the sector. The project component effectively supported the implementation of policy reforms. Some project initiatives are not yet fully functional and the government needs further support to accomplish these. Supporting technical assistance could address this.

Project Number: 46537-002
Project Name: Strengthening Education System Sector Development Program
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Ensuring the direct link between supported activities, outputs, and outcome, and relevance of their indicators is critical. For example, this program failed to achieve or achieved only in part some outcome indicators even though all planned outputs were delivered.

Project Number: 46537-002
Project Name: Strengthening Education System Sector Development Program
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Lack of capacity in governmen to continue reforms without external support puts the sustainability of reform projects' outputs at risk. Reforming the sector requires strong ownership and commitment in terms of providing sufficient financing and policy changes to support the reform. Some project outputs—including the textbook rental scheme and textbook provision, online training modules and attestation for teachers, curricula review system, and financing of innovative schools' additional functions—are incomplete as the government still has not implemented them countrywide.

Project Number: 46537-002
Project Name: Strengthening Education System Sector Development Program
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A narrow, more focused project scope enables the delivery of more solid, complete results.

Project Number: 38298-023
Project Name: Second Vocational Education and Skills Development Project
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Direct partnerships with business associations are effective and sustainable in promoting cooperation between vocational schools and employers.

Project Number: 38298-023
Project Name: Second Vocational Education and Skills Development Project
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The design and business processes, rollout, and evolution of Uzbekistan's Skills Development Fund (SDF) can be a model for countries that do not yet have such schemes.

Project Number: 38298-023
Project Name: Second Vocational Education and Skills Development Project
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Inclusion of gender targets in policy actions and DMF ensures the delivery of gender actions benefiting women.

Project Number: 41544-088, 41544-089, 41544-091
Project Name: Second Investment Climate Improvement Program (Subprograms 1–3)
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Reforms on tax burden and administration should be broad enough to significantly reduce the cost of tax compliance and eventually the size of the informal economy.

Project Number: 41544-088, 41544-089, 41544-091
Project Name: Second Investment Climate Improvement Program (Subprograms 1–3)
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The combination of long-term programmatic support and technical assistance (TA) is effective in achieving policy reforms.

Project Number: 41544-088, 41544-089, 41544-091
Project Name: Second Investment Climate Improvement Program
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Design and monitoring frameworks (DMFs) will be most useful in monitoring and evaluation if they fully and accurately reflect the program/project intended results and their indicators.

Project Number: 41544-088, 41544-089, 41544-091
Project Name: Second Investment Climate Improvement Program
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Continued close coordination among development partners is important to improve synergies, strengthen implementation, and enhance the impact of policy reforms in the Kyrgyz Republic.

Project Number: 41544-088, 41544-089, 41544-091
Project Name: Second Investment Climate Improvement Program
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Extensive dialogue is needed, particularly for reforms that meet resistance, to facilitate better cooperation and implementation.

Project Number: 41544-022, 41544-082, 41544-084
Project Name: Investment Climate Improvement Program
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It is problematic to use a country's overall position in the Doing Business report to monitor progress in improving the business environment and overall competitiveness. The report has been subject to criticism and methodological problems have been identified. Its usefulness for monitoring progress in similar programs lies more in monitoring the country's performance over time - particularly in indicators that are not sensitive to the representative case used by the World Bank team - rather than measuring progress against other economies.

Project Number: 41544-022
Project Name: Investment Climate Improvement Program
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Despite an improvement in the business environment, firms in the Kyrgyz Republic have had limited progress in developing new productive capabilities

Project Number: 41544-022
Project Name: Investment Climate Improvement Program
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Implementation of institutional reforms under the program was more effective and efficient when there was an adequate and detailed blueprint with clear and measurable results indicators, as well as where project-type implementation arrangements were in place to facilitate the change process (e.g., the business registration system or the new inspection process for tax administration were supported by detailed blueprints and financed through investment projects). The $2.9 million grant approved under the program cluster was thus very useful.

Project Number: 41544-022
Project Name: Investment Climate Improvement Program
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