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It is important to be concise in selecting indicators to avoid unnecessary data collection efforts.

Project Number: 40031-033
Project Name: Rajasthan Urban Sector Development Investment Program - Tranche 2
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Relevant indicators are essential to assessing a project’s results objectively, especially its effectiveness in achieving its expected outcome.

Project Number: 40031-033
Project Name: Rajasthan Urban Sector Development Investment Program - Tranche 2
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Capacity development efforts for urban local bodies/governments need to consider the promotion of operational efficiency (i.e., operating ratio and nonrevenue water), and capacity to collect revenues in relation to existing service-level provision.

Project Number: 40031-033
Project Name: Rajasthan Urban Sector Development Investment Program - Tranche 2
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Having an infrastructure financing strategy at the local government level will contribute to self-sustainable service provision when project-created infrastructure assets are transferred.

Project Number: 40031-033
Project Name: Rajasthan Urban Sector Development Investment Program - Tranche 2
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Provide mechanisms to ensure connections to the sewerage network in areas where the network is expanded is important and will help guarantee the utilization of the infrastructure, the generation of revenues to contribute to financial sustainability, and the realization of project’s economic benefits.

Project Number: 40031-033
Project Name: Rajasthan Urban Sector Development Investment Program (Tranche 2)
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Designing lesser complex projects in urban development may lead to better success rates.

Project Number: 32300-013
Project Name: Kerala Sustainable Urban Development Project
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The government should do proactive or advanced land acquisition as early as possible in the project cycle, and where feasible, before loan effectiveness to help minimize project delays.

Project Number: 32300-013
Project Name: Kerala Sustainable Urban Development Project
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Consultant inputs can be essential in supporting government agencies in implementing projects covering a large area with multiple components.

Project Number: 32300-013
Project Name: Kerala Sustainable Urban Development Project
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Intensified handholding can lead to more efficient implementation.

Project Number: 32300-013
Project Name: Kerala Sustainable Urban Development Project
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With inclusive urbanization a component of the government’s new planning process and the ADB’s Country Partnership Strategy, the program experience is highly relevant and arrangements could be made to ensure that lessons learned are applied to ongoing and future urban programs.

Project Number: 40031-023
Project Name: Rajasthan Urban Sector Development Investment Program (Tranche 1)
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In a context where gender equality is an issue, and where government prioritizes the equal participation of women, more emphasis pn this is required in projects.

Project Number: 40031-023
Project Name: Rajasthan Urban Sector Development Investment Program (Tranche 1)
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Commitment is needed to a clear financing strategy that leads to self-sufficiency.

Project Number: 40031-023
Project Name: Rajasthan Urban Sector Development Investment Program (Tranche 1)
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Urban projects with SWM components should be designed in a more holistic manner so that the full cycle of waste collection, segregation, composting, recycling, and disposal is incorporated. Stand-alone interventions, such as the landfill sites constructed in the project, are unlikely to fully solve the waste management problem.

Project Number: 40031-023
Project Name: Rajasthan Urban Sector Development Investment Program (Tranche 1)
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Urban projects with sewerage components should be designed to include household connections; if not, sewage treatment plants will be underutilized and revenue streams less than expected and impacting on sustainability.

Project Number: 40031-023
Project Name: Rajasthan Urban Sector Development Investment Program (Tranche 1)
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The program could have been more innovative in the application of new technologies for urban services, providing a test bed for innovations so long as local capacities permit.

Project Number: 40031-023
Project Name: Rajasthan Urban Sector Development Investment Program (Tranche 1)
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