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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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Under LGFGR2, the government adopted legal, policy, and institutional measures, and established supporting infrastructure. Many of the concepts were relatively new and therefore required extensive consultation and coordination to ensure stakeholders' understanding, acceptance, and adoption of the new measures. Substantial technical assistance (TA) support was necessary to ensure that best practices were incorporated and then consolidated throughout implementation to achieve the intended results.

Project Number: 42208-013, 38264-013
Project Name: Second Local Government Finance and Governance Reform Program - Subprograms 1 and 2: Program Completion Report
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Flexibility in design. Fiscal decentralization is the process of decentralizing revenue raising and expenditure of moneys to a lower level of government while maintaining financial responsibility. The process is complex and involves major changes to the legal and regulatory framework, institutional arrangements, and human capacity. Hence, sufficient time must be allocated to program implementation. Design flexibility is also a key consideration.

Project Number: 42208-013, 38264-013
Project Name: Second Local Government Finance and Governance Reform Program - Subprograms 1 and 2: Program Completion Report
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The adoption of the National Action Plan for Fiscal Decentralization (NAPFD) by the Ministry of Finance (MOF) laid the foundation for developing the Directorate General (DG) Fiscal Balance's blueprint for institutional transformation. The policy design of the blueprint has also benefited from inputs by ADB and other donors. Through the development of this blueprint, the government now has a set of long-term objectives to guide and shape medium-term policy design and implementation. ADB is currently a member of an informal development partners working group on decentralization.

Project Number: 42208-013, 38264-013
Project Name: Second Local Government Finance and Governance Reform Program - Subprograms 1 and 2: Program Completion Report
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A clear mechanism should be identified on how voluntary land contributions are agreed upon and compensated, if necessary, among the members of beneficiary groups (e.g., WUAs). Further, these contributions should be accounted for as counterpart funds to the project.

Project Number: 32359-013
Project Name: Participatory Irrigation Sector Project
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Consider innovative water-saving technologies for some crops, such as using sprinkler irrigation for contoured lands, as water-saving technologies are becoming cheaper to implement.

Project Number: 32359-013
Project Name: Participatory Irrigation Sector Project
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In moving forward with sector dialogue and preparation of new projects, competing needs should be continuously discussed particularly regarding the acceptable trade-off between staple food (rice) self-sufficiency (as a part of a national security plan) and its economic costs in terms of fiscal subsidy burden on the national and local budgets, as well as in terms of lower farm incomes.

Project Number: 32359-013
Project Name: Participatory Irrigation Sector Project
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In addition to self-evaluation by line agencies and project offices, future projects should consider allowing more independent entities to gather key data (e.g., on yields and cropped areas, incomes, and farmers’ views on irrigation and extension service quality). This can be done by the local planning or finance agency, or an agency of the local parliament.

Project Number: 32359-013
Project Name: Participatory Irrigation Sector Project
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ADB can improve client service and reduce administrative and paperwork burden. This can be done by simplifying project disbursement (ensuring sufficiently large imprest account replenishment thresholds and simpler cost-sharing arrangements). Efforts should be made to reduce report generation in future projects (e.g., by combining scheme assessments, simplifying the feasibility study format, and delegating feasibility review to the respective districts and provinces).

Project Number: 32359-013
Project Name: Participatory Irrigation Sector Project
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Continuing need for the project review process in ADB to allow a flexible project design if warranted, for example during this uncertain period in early 2000s for Indonesia. A more forthcoming discussion on risks and a flexible design at approval would have made it easier later to change the project scope and financing approach. This would have reduced the project implementation challenges and delays.

Project Number: 32359-013
Project Name: Participatory Irrigation Sector Project
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As a part of the continuing institution building, agriculture sector indicators can be improved by including more service performance indicators for agencies.

Project Number: 32359-013
Project Name: Participatory Irrigation Sector Project
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Staff training modules adopted under the project generally supported routine work functions of district and provincial agencies (e.g., planning, participatory consultations, construction management), rather than only project-specific tasks (e.g., loan disbursements and PISP-specific reporting).

Project Number: 32359-013
Project Name: Participatory Irrigation Sector Project
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