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While recognizing the affordability issue associated with water supply and sewerage connection for the poorer households, an equitable tariff structure based on quantity and purpose of use is needed to ensure sustainability of infrastructure and project benefits over the project’s economic life.

Project Number: 29282-013, 29282-023
Project Name: Provincial Towns Improvement Project
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More rigorous efforts should be made in ensuring that the quantity and quality of consultants deployed by consulting firms is adequate for specialized tasks. Consultants’ performance should be critically assessed during and after the project by executing agencies and ADB, and appropriate action taken to ensure that consulting services are available for the right purpose, at the right time, and in the right forms.

Project Number: 29282-013, 29282-023
Project Name: Provincial Towns Improvement Project
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Proper due diligence is required while assessing institutional capacity at the executing and implementing agencies. Training needs should be adequately assessed and established for all groups of stakeholders. Practical refresher training opportunities, both technical and managerial, are needed for applying relevant knowledge and achieving greater efficiency in operations. Basic training in procurement, contract administration, and construction management should be provided to personnel of the executing and implementing agencies and waterworks, and site staff appointed by the consultant.

Project Number: 29282-013, 29282-023
Project Name: Provincial Towns Improvement Project
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A lack of in-depth investigations during project preparatory technical assistance, particularly during preparation of the detailed design, has had a significant impact on the finished products. More time should have been given for project design, particularly since the project involved scattered locations and an inconvenient transport system. Furthermore, ensuring ownership of the investment through adequate consultation with local stakeholders is vital to sustainable outcomes.

Project Number: 29282-013, 29282-023
Project Name: Provincial Towns Improvement Project
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To ensure sustainability, it is important that policy initiatives are supported by ongoing policy and institutional reforms.

Project Number: 34388-013
Project Name: Second Education Sector Development Program
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A clear gender and ethnic minority action plan must be developed at inception, along with robust reporting systems anddesignated focal persons

Project Number: 34388-013
Project Name: Second Education Sector Development Program
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Civil works education projects must have strong and informed supervisory and monitoring systems in place, staffed by trained and competent personnel to enforce quality standards. If community supervision is used, then there must be orientation and training for the members.

Project Number: 34388-013
Project Name: Second Education Sector Development Program
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Baseline information and regular monitoring are essential components to evaluate project performance; monitoring and evaluation should be undertaken properly during project implementation.

Project Number: 39603-012
Project Name: Tonle Sap Sustainable Livelihoods Project
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No additional lesson.

Project Number: 34390-013
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion Transmission Project
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It is easy to overestimate the capacity needed to implement a project that is largely undertaking pilot activities and which also involves significant reforms. At all levels of involvement - executing agency, service providers, contractors, farmers' water user community members - capacity constraints affected project performance. In these circumstances, the project design was both overambitious (e.g., by not focusing on fewer subprojects from the outset) and not rigorous enough (in its analysis of the risks and assumptions inherent in many operations).

Project Number: 34379-013
Project Name: Northwest Irrigation Sector Project
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Cost overruns due to exchange rate fluctuations may be managed by an improved methodology for determining price contingencies.

Project Number: 39581-012
Project Name: Road Improvement (Sector) Project
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Greater capacity is needed by the government to manage community relations and negotiate compensation for land and resources utilized. Land acquisition for the Makira subproject was minimal and managed in accordance with ADB's safeguard policy. In the future, greater government capacity will be needed to manage community liaison, identify affected persons, and manage the process of compensation to avoid community dissatisfaction.

Project Number: 39581-012
Project Name: Road Improvement (Sector) Project
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Creating a contracting industry by motivating local communities. This can help maintain roads in good condition while representing value for money and providing positive social outcomes, but it requires adequate resources for effective supervision by engendering accountability of central and provincial governments.

Project Number: 39581-012
Project Name: Road Improvement (Sector) Project
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Stronger internal procedures ensure maintenance quality and probity. Quality control remains a weakness. Funding must be provided to support critical maintenance-related activities - progressive improvement of performance-based contracts, timely and appropriate supervision of maintenance contracts, and asset management planning to ensure proper forward planning of maintenance needs. Sound fiduciary procedures are needed to ensure that the quality and quantity of civil works, and the purchase of goods and services, are matched by proper financial records and approvals.

Project Number: 39581-012
Project Name: Road Improvement (Sector) Project
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Need for sound technical, economic, social, and environmental procedures. They are essential for translating the National Transport Plan into worthwhile and fully supported investments. Proper engagement and communication with stakeholders is vital to ensure that the rationale and the processes are fully understood. A stronger country safeguard system, including guidelines on obtaining customary land for transport projects, is essential.

Project Number: 39581-012
Project Name: Road Improvement (Sector) Project
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