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If project design includes the extensive use of NGOs as a major means of project implementation, their availability and capacity to undertake the role will need more careful consideration. As noted in the PCR, if capacity is considered inadequate, time should be allowed for the orientation and training of the NGOs and/or implementers.

Project Number: 32249-013
Project Name: Community-Based Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project
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Delivery of skills training through the private sector is a viable approach to skills development in Nepal.

Project Number: 36611-013
Project Name: Skills for Employment Project
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In order to avoid major initial delays in project implementation, procurement planning must be effective, and packaging of contracts needs to be carefully thought out. Project implementation should also have a provision for supporting government officials with management consultants. Advanced actions including retroactive financing provisions should be investigated during the project design and used in establishing the project office, training packages and management support consultant.

Project Number: 36611-013
Project Name: Skills for Employment Project
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Project implementation arrangements should be carefully assessed and necessary provisions made for effective project management. There should be strong ownership of and commitment to the project by all parties responsible for project implementation.

Project Number: 36611-013
Project Name: Skills for Employment Project
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Affirmative action policies could expand opportunities for skills development to members of marginalized groups. Without explicit targets for the disadvantaged groups, not as many trainees from the groups would have benefitted from skills training. However, the targets should not be uniform across all training areas but should vary according to type of trade, location of training, and density of marginalized groups in the area.

Project Number: 36611-013
Project Name: Skills for Employment Project
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The same project outcomes can often be achieved through a number of alternativetraining methodologies depending upon the prior qualifications of trainees.

Project Number: 32236-013
Project Name: Teacher Education Project
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Delays occurred frequently in meeting conditions of loan effectiveness, recruiting consultants, and awarding contracts.

Project Number: XXXXX
Project Name: Kali Gandaki “A” Hydroelectric Project
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There is no doubt that selecting hydro versus thermal power in Nepal provided a least-cost intervention given the country’s topography and relatively high costs of alternative energy such as diesel and oil. At feasibility study time, alternatives to the adopted design were investigated but ultimately rejected and it now appears when factoring in energy production (actual versus planned), down time due to mechanical problems in the turbines, that including considerations of operational costs into decision making process may have changed the design of the plant.

Project Number: XXXXX
Project Name: Kali Gandaki “A” Hydroelectric Project
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ADB should consider promoting complementary rural development initiatives in project-impacted areas with indicators of outcome derived from the impact assessment process. Agencies to be involved in implementing these initiatives should be preferably located at the district or village level. ADB should not rely on the “polluter pays” principle or on compliance mechanisms to implement its safeguards.

Project Number: XXXXX
Project Name: Kali Gandaki “A” Hydroelectric Project
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Consider projects with sufficient storage capacity to better address load shedding, which continues to affect economic growth and living standards. To consider such projects, greater knowledge of technical aspects, including geology, hydrology (including extreme events), and sedimentation, should be developed by financing agencies and/or developers.

Project Number: XXXXX
Project Name: Kali Gandaki “A” Hydroelectric Project
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Specific loan covenant must be included and strictly enforced. This lesson pertains to the whole subject of loan covenants: they should be more strictly enforced. During ADB Board of Directors’ meeting on 18 March 1996, the Board expressed a similar opinion.

Project Number: XXXXX
Project Name: Kali Gandaki “A” Hydroelectric Project
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Involve the Nepal Resident Mission to a greater degree so that problems may be diffused sooner, rather than relying on ADB review missions to react to them later.

Project Number: XXXXX
Project Name: Kali Gandaki “A” Hydroelectric Project
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The government needed to review and include interim milestone dates in the contract documents to ensure timely work completion and avoid extensions. The government also needed to institutionalize a safeguard system within the organizational framework of the project, particularly during implementation, for effective monitoring and supervision of and timely compliance with safeguard covenants.

Project Number: 37027-013
Project Name: Subregional Transport Facilitation Project
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There were some difficulties in contract administration between the DOC and UNCTAD. Although the contract for the ASYCUDA was signed between DOR and UNCTAD, DOC was the main agency to supervise UNCTAD’s work. DOC felt that it was less effective in the UNCTAD contract implementation because it was not a party to the contract. Contract provisions should have clearly stated the role, responsibilities, and implementation arrangements of DOC.

Project Number: 37027-013
Project Name: Subregional Transport Facilitation Project
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The practice of international joint venture partners not actively participating in the implementation of the contracts awarded was observed during project implementation. To ensure involvement of all joint venture partners in contract administration, it would be necessary for each partner to issue a guarantee against the collateral for their individual and joint liability. Issuance of individual and joint liability along with a performance bond would ensure liability for the work among all joint venture partners.

Project Number: 37027-013
Project Name: Subregional Transport Facilitation Project
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