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The Ministry of Water Resources and Land Reclamation (MWRLR) did not have the expertise to deliver the output of improved agricultural technologies. An alternative implementing agency such as the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development may have had more success in delivering this output.

Project Number: 33042-013
Project Name: Irrigation Rehabilitation Project
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Improving on-farm agricultural productivity is important for project efficiency and sustainability. Access to irrigation water is not the only constraint on improving crop yields. Higher farm incomes from yield improvements due to productivity gains make it easier to pay water use fees and sustain operation and mainetnance (O&M) of irrigation infrastructure.

Project Number: 33042-013
Project Name: Irrigation Rehabilitation Project
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No new lessons

Project Number: 34569-013
Project Name: Republic of Tajikistan: Dushanbe-Kyrgyz Border Rehabilitation Project (Phase I)
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No new lessons

Project Number: 32494-023
Project Name: Agriculture Rehabilitation Project
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No new lessons

Project Number: 32513-013
Project Name: Power Rehabilitation Project
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Need for adequate advisory services to help prepare required legal and regulatory changes to speed up program implementation. The program also shows the benefits of integrated approaches to microfinance development support that promote capacity development of MFIs in conjunction with necessary reforms in the underlying policy environment.

Project Number: 33040-013, 33040-023
Project Name: Microfinance Systems Development Program [Loan 2000-2001-TAJ]
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During crisis episodes, while policy reforms are important, the government has urgent needs to quickly stabilize the economy, such as, providing urgent fiscal support to counteract the financial crisis. As such, crisis response operations should focus more on immediate responses to the financial crisis, such as maintaining critical social and safety net expenditures. However, as crises open opportunities for reforms, policy dialogue can be initiated for follow-up operations. But this should not delay the financial crisis recovery support.

Project Number: 43098-012
Project Name: Crisis Recovery Support Program
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Where WUAs are expected to participate in designing irrigation and drainage schemes, it is important that they be established in advance of the design process to ensure ownership.

Project Number: 32494-023
Project Name: Agriculture Rehabilitation Project
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Complementary project inputs. The combination of the Education Sector Reform Project (ESRP) and the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) School Improvement Project was a demonstration of successful coordination of projects pursuing related objectives within the same organization.

Project Number: 37175-013
Project Name: Education Sector Reform Project
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Sense of ownership at the higher level. Developing a strong sense of ownership at the higher level of the hierarchy is as important as developing it at the ground level.

Project Number: 37175-013
Project Name: Education Sector Reform Project
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Engaging local expertise to undertake the survey and design of works expedites implementation, reduces costs associated with engaging international and national consultants for the purpose, provides the government with continuing access to project-relevant expertise, and builds national capacity for future projects.

Project Number: 32494-023
Project Name: Agriculture Rehabilitation Project
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Intensive information campaigns ensure a high degree of community participation in PHC management, sourcing of financing, co-sharing, contributions in kind, and other expressions of support that help to sustain health reform projects.

Project Number: 33036-013
Project Name: Health Sector Reform Project
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The program provided lessons in allocating counterpart funds generated from program proceeds. Budget earmarking should only be considered if the government has adequate mechanisms to track expenditures. Otherwise, technical assistance is important to provide this capacity. Programs should also rethink strict budget earmarking. While placing strict conditions on how a government spends the funds seems desirable, implementation could be difficult when budget precision is low.

Project Number: 43098-012
Project Name: Crisis Recovery Support Program
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Application of training to real situations. The in-service training provided participants with new ideas and skills. Combined with the provision of new textbooks and teachers' manuals written in line wit the methodological training, this has provided teachers with concrete opportunities to practice and develop their skills further.

Project Number: 37175-013
Project Name: Education Sector Reform Project
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Duccess of a financial crisis response operation is highly contingent on the government's ability to quickly put together its own anti-crisis plan, which could be financed by ADB after exercising due diligence. In the case of Tajikistan, the government had an anti-crisis action plan and a crisis budget. Readiness to implement is also important.

Project Number: 43098-012
Project Name: Crisis Recovery Support Program
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