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No new lessons.

Project Number: 41657-013
Project Name: Emergency Disaster Damage Rehabilitation (Sector) Project
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Acquisition of land early on and advance actions on contracts were appropriate in avoiding unnecessary delays and in facilitating project implementation.

Project Number: 35466-013
Project Name: Dhaka Clean Fuel Project
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No new lessons.

Project Number: 31296-013
Project Name: West Zone Power System Development Project
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No new lessons.

Project Number: 32193-013
Project Name: Northwest Crop Diversification Project
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No new lessons.

Project Number: 35225-013
Project Name: Small and Medium Enterprise Sector Development Program
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The cancellation of the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation funds and the delayed implementation of the Nordic Development Fund component affected consumer connection. A more reliable parallel financing arrangement has to be made to ensure the realization of designed project objectives. This matter needs to be addressed under ongoing and future loans16 for the power sector.

Project Number: 36205-013
Project Name: Power Sector Development Program (Project Loan)
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The construction of oil-fueled power plants by the public and private sectors increased Bangladesh Power Development Board's operational costs. The tariff increases by Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission in 2008-2012 were contrary to its tariff-setting methodology, which specifies at least a 10% return on assets. Rationalizing the tariff structure to provide an adequate margin to distribution entities can enable these entities to meet future financial requirements.

Project Number: 36205-013
Project Name: Power Sector Development Program (Project Loan)
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The Bangladesh Power Development Board corporatization target was a premature step, which underestimated the difficulties in the way of major reforms toward unbundling and corporatization in Bangladesh. The government has already changed its power sector reform agenda. Instead of corporatizing Bangladesh Power Development Board, it plans to restructure Bangladesh Power Development Board business functions into several generation and distribution strategic business units, which will operate under the existing legal structure and be functionally separate with more financial authority.

Project Number: 36205-013
Project Name: Power Sector Development Program (Project Loan)
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The importance of strong project sponsors. The project clearly demonstrated the importance of strong and committed project sponsors to help ensure the success of a project. Telenor had the technical competence, managerial skills, and extensive telecommunications experience to run a world-class telecommunications operation in Bangladesh. Grameen Bank, for its part, had the brand recognition and distribution network to help market Grameenphone’s services in both urban and rural areas. Both companies have also observed high ethical standards.

Project Number: 37920-014
Project Name: Grameenphone Telecommunications Project and Grameenphone Telecommunications Expansion Project
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Need for thorough review of legal documents. The flaw in the wording in one of the agreements could have been avoided. ADB needs to thoroughly review all legal documents, particularly those that could cause it financial or reputational harm.

Project Number: 37920-014
Project Name: Grameenphone Telecommunications Project and Grameenphone Telecommunications Expansion Project
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he use of consultant support with an evolving design requires flexibility. Therefore, packaging all consultant support in large lots through firms is not the best option. Institutional capacity development strategies should consider twinning between Bangladeshi and international institutions to developed capacity in the Directorate of Primary Education (DPE) and other local institutions. The international institutions can continue supporting the DPE after program completion.

Project Number: 30216-013
Project Name: Second Primary Education Development Program
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Balancing the combined roles of development partners, as agency staff providing oversight on behalf of the agency and as experts providing technical advice, requires constant attention and reflection to ensure that the government remains in the lead during implementation and that development partners get sufficient information to exercise oversight.

Project Number: 30216-013
Project Name: Second Primary Education Development Program
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A systemic approach to reforming the primary education system is required to address the complexity, complementarity and dependency of issues and organizations in primary education. To design such an integrated approach, a comprehensive subsector analysis to guide the scoping of the program and adopting realistic targets is necessary. The baseline study conducted by Directorate of Primary Education for the midterm review mission performed this function.

Project Number: 30216-013
Project Name: Second Primary Education Development Program
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Assessment of executing agency capacity is critical when embarking on an ambitious sector-wide approach and particularly so in a large, complex primary education system like that in Bangladesh with development partners cofinancing the project. The high number of vacancies and limited capacity of the Directorate of Primary Education were acknowledged during the design phase, which should have prompted a need to consider a preparatory phase to get minimum preconditions in place before beginning the implementation.

Project Number: 30216-013
Project Name: Second Primary Education Development Program
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Selecting community extension worker from the local community, teaching them technical skills, supplying starter kits to them, and deploying them in the community worked well for service delivery and for establishing linkages amongst project beneficiaries and between the Department of Livestock Services field offices and non-government organizations.

Project Number: 35228-013
Project Name: Participatory Livestock Development II
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