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The project design should have focused primarily on components 1 and 2, and only those parts of components 3 and 4 that were doable, by taking into account the capacity of the executing agency in implementing these components. A more accurate assessment of its capacity should have been conducted at project preparation stage.

Project Number: 37698-013, 37698-012
Project Name: Information and Communications Technology in Basic Education Project
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Without proper monitoring and evaluation with baseline data, targets, and reported results, the achievement of intended public health impacts by a project like this might occur but will be impossible to demonstrate.

Project Number: 35496-013
Project Name: Western Uzbekistan Rural Water Supply Project
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The lack of an appraisal mission may have contributed to insufficient attention to both key aspects of project design and to ensuring borrower ownership. This is in relation to the decision by ADB to waive an appraisal missions.

Project Number: 35496-013
Project Name: Western Uzbekistan Rural Water Supply Project
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Reduce implementation delays and ensuring that water supply networks have raw water to distribute and uninterrupted power to pump it.

Project Number: 35496-013
Project Name: Western Uzbekistan Rural Water Supply Project
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This relates to the baseline data that was missing in the project. The lack of basic data as the benchmark for evaluation has caused difficulties in assessing the project’s achievements; hence, the evaluation was mainly based on qualitative data.

Project Number: 40049-013, 40049-012
Project Name: Rural Basic Education Project
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Pay attention to broader issues of water resource management.

Project Number: 35496-013
Project Name: Western Uzbekistan Rural Water Supply Project
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The project’s main objective is to improve the quality, relevance, and equitable access to basic education in Uzbekistan by using ICT. However, the RRP and the PCR had limited discussions on this main objective, presumably because the project was being implemented alongside other projects in the education sector. Notwithstanding, achieving an enhanced access and higher quality of basic education was an essential accomplishment of the project that should have been highlighted.

Project Number: 37698-013, 37698-012
Project Name: Information and Communications Technology in Basic Education Project
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Poverty intervention projects such as the project need to be clear on the mechanisms for ensuring participation of the poor.

Project Number: 33196-013
Project Name: Small and Microfinance Development Project
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Capacity building is needed in enabling institutions to reach the poor with demand driven products and services.

Project Number: 33196-013
Project Name: Small and Microfinance Development Project
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The selection of appropriate institutions is crucial in targeting poor and low-income households. Commercial banks are constrained to reach large numbers of poor households due to inherent rigidities of bank regulations and policies.

Project Number: 33196-013
Project Name: Small and Microfinance Development Project
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The use of credit lines is not adequate in meeting long-term development needs and constraints of the sector.

Project Number: 33196-013
Project Name: Small and Microfinance Development Project
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The definition of microfinance at appraisal in the context of Uzbekistan should have been given upfront to provide overall guidance in the project design.

Project Number: 33196-013
Project Name: Small and Microfinance Development Project
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An additional lesson is that if the executing agency’s limited relevant experience of project design and implementation is known at the outset at the project design stage (i.e., as confirmed in the risk assessment), it is necessary to design appropriate mitigation strategies. These could include the following: (i) design smaller pilot projects to gain experience before larger projects are tackled; or (ii) make significant consultant support available in the early stages of implementation to strengthen capacity and ensure timely implementation.

Project Number: 33548-013
Project Name: Urban Water Supply Project
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The executing agency needs to monitor the project more closely. Without timely monitoring and evaluation, an opportunity to demonstrate improved sector performance was missed. Early mobilization of consultants is necessary for effective implementation of the project. Consideration could be given to a short, results-based consulancy to assist the executing agency and project implementation unit (PIU) agree on the baseline, commence procurement, and clarify any implementation issues, as well as short- to medium-term consultancies to implement specific project components.

Project Number: 37698-013
Project Name: Information and Communications Technology in Basic Education Project
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Assessment of the procurement capacity of the executing agency and ensuring development of adequate capacity of the PIU and executing agency would help implementation of the project and ensure efficient procurement and consultant engagement.

Project Number: 37698-013
Project Name: Information and Communications Technology in Basic Education Project
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