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The transformative policy, institutional reforms, and student- and teacher-centered approaches are key to the progressive improvement of the upper secondary education (USE) subsector in Cambodia. The dropout rate of 8.0% among science scholarship recipients was low compared with the national average of 18.5% in USE, and science stream students performed better in the grade 12 exam in terms of higher scores compared to their peers in the social science stream.

Project Number: 47136-003
Project Name: Upper Secondary Education Sector Development Program
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Project costing at design stage should realiably estimate the costs of all civil and other engineering costs and provide allowance for foreign currency fluctuations. The actual cost of one irrigation scheme turned out some $10 million greater than estimated at approval. This resulted in significant revision to the subproject design. The revision also incorporated the appreciation in special drawing rights against the US dollar and the domestic and international inflation that pushed down the real value of project resources.

Project Number: 40190-013
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion Flood and Drought Risk Management and Mitigation Project 
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Implementation is difficult if the capacities of consultants and executing agency staff fail to match the skill sets required for detailed design and construction of planned works. This issue contributed to the need for contract extension of the national consultants. The project also engaged three individual consultants (hydrologist, hydraulic specialist, and database specialist) to support the newly established Department of Hydrology and River Works and National Flood Forecasting Center.

Project Number: 40190-013
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion Flood and Drought Risk Management and Mitigation Project 
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Effective gender mainstreaming in infrastructure projects may be helped by the inclusion of community-based activities that foster women's participation. In this case, community-based disaster risk management and flexible training schedules proved effective.

Project Number: 40190-013
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion Flood and Drought Risk Management and Mitigation Project 
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Executing agency capacity to undertake large and complex irrigation projects can easily be overestimated, and relatively minor issues can delay both startup and/or effectiveness and implementation. In this case, overall implementation was made considerably more complex by the major civil works redesign which impacted procurement and safeguards requirements. Delays in recruiting consultants and getting the Ministry of Economy and Finance to agree to including price revisions in consultants' contract delayed loan effectiveness, in turn startup and implementation.

Project Number: 40190-013
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion Flood and Drought Risk Management and Mitigation Project 
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Without a comprehensive and robust design and monitoring framework (DMF) and without undertaking the necessary updates, the level of project achievements against targets cannot be ascertained. In this project, the scale and character of planned physical works in one scheme were substantially altered during implementation, but the impact of this change on project effectiveness cannot be properly captured by the indicators in the DMF. Similarly, without conducting baseline and impact assessments, the economic viability of project investments cannot be reliably established.

Project Number: 40190-013
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion Flood and Drought Risk Management and Mitigation Project 
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Delays in procuring and installing modest but critical hardware and equipment (e.g., for modern irrigation management practices) can affect the effectiveness and efficiency of a otherwise highly successful project.

Project Number: 44328-013
Project Name: Uplands Irrigation and Water Resources Management Sector Project
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A simple and focused design strengthens the likelihood for project success. This project's design was simple and focused (with two well-differentiated outputs linked to a clear outcome), and with all dimensions of irrigation efficiency as determinants of agriculture productivity included in the scope of activities.

Project Number: 44328-013
Project Name: Uplands Irrigation and Water Resources Management Sector Project
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Failure to identify and provide the necessary human resources can affect the implementaton of well-prepared projects. This was shown in how the deficit in operation and maintenance specialists and national engineers in the project implementation team and the late recruitment of a gender specialist had caused implementation delays.

Project Number: 44328-013
Project Name: Uplands Irrigation and Water Resources Management Sector Project
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The establishment and staffing of project management units and inclusion of counterpart funding in government budgets prior to loan approval help prevent delays in loan effectiveness. This was another benefit that resulted from the project's application of earlier lessons on the importance of advance actions.

Project Number: 44328-013
Project Name: Uplands Irrigation and Water Resources Management Sector Project
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Complete topographic data are necessary for the proper delineation of subprojects and the preparation of detailed engineering designs (DEDs). Despite the generally thorough preparation of the project, the absence of some basic topographic data made it difficult to properly delineate each subproject and to undertake DED of secondary and tertiary canals.

Project Number: 44328-013
Project Name: Uplands Irrigation and Water Resources Management Sector Project
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Prompt procurement and consultant recruitment create an early strong momentum for disbursement and delivery of physical works. Applying the lessons from earlier water resources and irrigation interventions in Cambodia, this project identified the implementation delay triggers and undertook advance actions to demobilize them. One such advance action was the prompt procurement and recruitment of consultants, which created a momentum for early and sustained disbursements and execution of civil works. water resources and irrigation in Cambodia. The project design identified

Project Number: 44328-013
Project Name: Uplands Irrigation and Water Resources Management Sector Project
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Creativity in implementing subprojects to minimize safeguards issues is critical in avoiding major delays. This was demonstrated in the redesign of irrigation canals and the installation of a box culvert in one of the project sites.

Project Number: 44328-013
Project Name: Uplands Irrigation and Water Resources Management Sector Project
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The establishment of one interagency project management unit promoted comprehension and commonality of objectives across agencies, and both facilitated and simplified various financial and administrative processes.

Project Number: 44328-013
Project Name: Uplands Irrigation and Water Resources Management Sector Project
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A clear design and monitoring framework (DMF) allows procurement and implementation documentation to be linked to performance monitoring, and for all the monitoring requirement to be reflected in a comprehensive project administration manual. This was one facet of the project DMF that made it effective in tracking progress and facilitating timely and success project implementation.

Project Number: 44328-013
Project Name: Uplands Irrigation and Water Resources Management Sector Project
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