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Lesson
Effective orientation programs on project approaches, implementation modalities, and the roles of stakeholders contribute to successful project implementation. Implementation partners should be well informed on the approaches and strategies of the project prior to implementation.

Project Number: 31402-013
Project Name: Small Towns Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project
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Lesson
All components of projects should be treated as important and monitored from the early stages of project implementation. The difficulty of establishing technical support centers in five development regions of Nepal under the technical support components was mainly because the executing agency (EA) accorded them low priority and ADB did not follow up sufficiently.

Project Number: 31402-013
Project Name: Small Towns Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project
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Lesson
Project design should accommodate the complexity of community participation and the time it requires. Adequate attention should be paid to capacity development in communities to ensure the sustainability of water supply and sanitation (WSS) facilities.

Project Number: 31402-013
Project Name: Small Towns Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project
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Lesson
Extensive and thorough investigations of potential project sites need to be carried out to the extent possible during feasibility studies and detailed design to ensure that designs are appropriate. Experience shows that design shortcomings have caused significant implementation delays and numerous contract variations.

Project Number: 31402-013
Project Name: Small Towns Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project
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Lesson
Better linkage between health outcomes and WSS outputs should be promoted in WSS projects by including sanitation, hygiene, and health promotion activities in project design.

Project Number: 31402-013
Project Name: Small Towns Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project
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Lesson
A capacity-development program for beneficiaries needs to be well planned and implemented in accordance with the project implementation schedule and progress. A monitoring mechanism to measure the effectiveness of the capacity development programs needs to be established.

Project Number: 31402-013
Project Name: Small Towns Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project
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Lesson
The ability of NGOs and the private sector to make a real contribution to extension services depend on their technical and institutional capacity, and this should be taken into account as a basis for selection. Such a lesson implies that other factors were used as the basis for selection. It also stipulated a requirement for orientation of these organizations, implying that this was not done. This introduces concern as to how successful NGOs and private sector providers actually were.

Project Number: 30228-013
Project Name: Crop Diversification Project
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Lesson
An ambitious, complex program or project should not be launched without being fully equipped with adequate TA and other requisite resources, particularly when the design does not provide the option of accessing funds under the loan.

Project Number: 32238-013
Project Name: Governance Reform Program
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Lesson
If a program or project runs against both (a) and (b) above, there should be flexibility in implementation plan to reduce the scope and focus on the essential core of the program or project. The policy matrix should clearly identify such core issues beforehand.

Project Number: 32238-013
Project Name: Governance Reform Program
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Lesson
ADB must recognize that on-the-ground conditions in the borrower country may change substantially while a program or project is under preparation, especially if the preparatory process is long and the nature of unrest borders on social conflict and violence.

Project Number: 32238-013
Project Name: Governance Reform Program
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