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Vocational schools were not familiar with the new way of operating that the project supported. They needed support to build their knowledge of and information on local labor market conditions, including skills standards and emerging employment opportunities. Projects which focus on the interface between education and employment need to be underpinned by regular implementation supervision as the conditions on the ground can be different across the country.

Project Number: 33409-013
Project Name: Vocational Education Strengthening Project
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The project needed to provide additional support to those schools that needed it, particularly in more remote areas.

Project Number: 33409-013
Project Name: Vocational Education Strengthening Project
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The project may have benefited from a more decentralized project management structure. The project supported a process of service decentralization while project management itself was centralized.

Project Number: 33409-013
Project Name: Vocational Education Strengthening Project
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Project performance may have been better if outcomes had been closely linked to ADB-supported activities, and if they had reflected gradual improvements in the vocational training system rather than the end of point of improved relevance, efficiency, and effectiveness of the vocational training system.

Project Number: 33409-013
Project Name: Vocational Education Strengthening Project
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No new lessons

Project Number: 32298-033
Project Name: Madhya Pradesh Power Sector Investment Program (Tranche 2)
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Knowledge about local context and political dynamics will be important, as well as investing enough time for dialogue and consultation with local stakeholders.

Project Number: 30303-013
Project Name: Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environmental Management Project
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Finding the right balance of complexity is important, and ADB should spend enough time during project preparation to decide how complex or simple the project scope will be. Lessons from evaluation studies indicate that projects with fewer subprojects are easier to manage and achieve better results.

Project Number: 30303-013
Project Name: Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environmental Management Project
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It is easier to build new infrastructure than to repair the existing infrastructure, in terms of both cost and political benefit/visibility. Local authorities and ADB have focused on new infrastructure in the past. Replacing old and leaky water lines is expensive, not because of the water pipe itself, but because of road repairs and related traffic disruption in busy, already overcrowded lanes and streets. These associated expenditures cost several times more than the water line itself, and are often underestimated.

Project Number: 30303-013
Project Name: Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environmental Management Project
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Future projects need to develop clear rules and obligations for efficient water sharing. ADB loan covenants need to ensure that city governments, with assistance from state and national governments, resolve cost-sharing arrangements before the project is closed and assets are transferred.

Project Number: 30303-013
Project Name: Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environmental Management Project
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Integrated infrastructure development also includes optimizing the design of the facilities so that cost is minimized and the service coverage maximized. This may entail sharing the use of a facility between adjacent cities if that is a cheaper alternative compared to providing standalone facilities for each city.

Project Number: 30303-013
Project Name: Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environmental Management Project
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ADB should promote a policy dialogue for water sector reforms at the national or state level on the best institutional arrangements for urban-rural sharing of water.

Project Number: 30303-013
Project Name: Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environmental Management Project
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Municipal governments need to strategize how to achieve wider water supply coverage, including exploring cross-subsidies between industrial/commercial users and household consumers, and providing subsidized connections to low-income families.

Project Number: 30303-013
Project Name: Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environmental Management Project
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The state government needs to provide financial incentives to encourage ULBs to take their tariff setting and revenue collection more seriously. Such incentives should be performance driven, and preferably also underpinned by accountability agreements between the state government and the ULBs.

Project Number: 30303-013
Project Name: Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environmental Management Project
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Tariff reform in the water sector is difficult due to cultural and political sensitivities. As such, a strategic approach to tariffs and cost recovery is needed. It may include a clear timeline to increase tariffs, and address the unwillingness to charge for water and sanitation services. A clear approach to the broader sustainability of the project needs to be set out in project proposals.

Project Number: 30303-013
Project Name: Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environmental Management Project
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A chicken-and-egg dilemma confronts the local governments in their efforts to enforce appropriate water tariffs. Consumers would agree to tariff increases only after services have been improved. National government policy is sympathetic to this sentiment. On the other hand, local governments cannot improve water services if they cannot collect adequate revenues.

Project Number: 30303-013
Project Name: Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environmental Management Project
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