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The policy loan, being the first to be implemented, should have been more selective in the policy interventions and implemented these in a phased manner. This could have avoided the delays encountered during the program implementation.

Project Number: 34160-013
Project Name: Education Sector Development Program
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Loan agreements for projects in Uzbekistan should include a covenant that will avoid unnecessary delays from the contract registration process of the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations, Investment, and Trade. In each railway project, the ministry’s price verification during the contract registration process unnecessarily delayed procurement. Price verification aims to encourage renegotiation of bid prices when the ministry believes prices are too high.

Project Number: 30457-014
Project Name: Railway Rehabilitation Project and Railway Modernization Project [Loans 1631/1773]
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Before preparing projects for Central Asia or the Caucasus, ADB should determine if restricting procurement to ADB-member countries will significantly raise the cost of goods and services over unrestricted procurement. For the two railway projects, the least-cost source of rails was nonmember countries, and limiting procurement to ADB member countries raised the cost of rails by more than 150%.

Project Number: 30457-013
Project Name: Railway Rehabilitation Project and Railway Modernization Project [Loans 1631/1773]
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The first railway project is a good model for ADB to follow when starting a new program in a country. The first railway project was among the first projects that ADB financed in Uzbekistan. When ADB starts a new program in a country, government officials and others must learn about ADB’s policies, procedures, and requirements, including those regarding safeguards, anti-corruption, and procurement.

Project Number: 30457-016
Project Name: Railway Rehabilitation Project and Railway Modernization Project [Loans 1631/1773]
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Future projects should have an implementation consultant or a construction supervision consultant throughout project implementation. In each railway project, the monthly reports prepared by UTY did not discuss civil works in detail and lacked information, for example, on detailed designs and who developed them, the exact location of rehabilitated sites, and photographs showing progress. ADB’s limited oversight of civil works probably also contributed to resources being temporarily diverted to another project during implementation of the first project.

Project Number: 30457-015
Project Name: Railway Rehabilitation Project and Railway Modernization Project [Loans 1631/1773]
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No new lessons

Project Number: 29567-013
Project Name: Road Rehabilitation Project [Loan 1657-UZB]
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For the sake of efficiency of resources, similar works should be packaged into bigger contracts suitable for international competitive bidding and more efforts is needed during the prequalification and bid evaluation stages to ensure that the selected contractors are fully familiar with the country norms and practices.

Project Number: 33548-013
Project Name: Urban Water Supply Project
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Specifications for operation and maintenance (O&M) equipment should be prepared in consultation with the relevant agencies.

Project Number: 33548-013
Project Name: Urban Water Supply Project
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ADB and the government should jointly ensure project readiness before approval (e.g., all relevant studies, including the local feasibility studies should be completed before the start of the project).

Project Number: 34160-023
Project Name: Education Sector Development Project
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Market-level compensation is necessary to attract and retain competent staff at PMU, PIUs, and vodokanals.

Project Number: 33548-013
Project Name: Urban Water Supply Project
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Consultants should be fielded early in project implementation.

Project Number: 33548-013
Project Name: Urban Water Supply Project
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More capacity building needs to be provided to the staff of project management units (PMUs) and project implementaiton units (PIUs), particularly during early stages of implementation.

Project Number: 33548-013
Project Name: Urban Water Supply Project
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ADB should be more proactive to ensure full compliance with the loan agreement and adherence to ADB procedures relating to procurement of goods and consulting services.

Project Number: 34160-023
Project Name: Education Sector Development Project
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Initial implementation delays can be reduced by completing more works during project preparation such as (a) preparation of request for proposal for consulting services, (b) approval of feasibility studies by the government, (c) preparation of tender documents for the first contract package; and (d) advance actions for the procurement of consulting services or construction contracts.

Project Number: 33548-013
Project Name: Urban Water Supply Project
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Inadequate allocation and delayed release of counterpart funds can jeopardize project outputs.

Project Number: 34160-023
Project Name: Education Sector Development Project
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