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Lesson
The selection of capable nongovernment organizations (NGOs) was critical to ensuring effective delivery of services and for sustaining project activities.

Project Number: 32193-013
Project Name: Northwest Crop Diversification Project
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Post-project monitoring and evaluation systems need to be designed for the project during the planning phase to ensure ongoing innovation and sustainability of the project impacts.

Project Number: 32193-013
Project Name: Northwest Crop Diversification Project
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All project components should have been based on need assessment. This was particularly true of the activities for agribusiness credit piloting and infrastructure for marketing and the facilities at the horticulture training and demonstration centers (HTDCs). Failure to assess needs and conditions for these components adequately meant that the outputs were not used fully or successfully.

Project Number: 32193-013
Project Name: Northwest Crop Diversification Project
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To ensure that the markets to be built under the project would be successful, the project needed to seek the participation and take into account the opinions of local stakeholders when selecting the sites for market construction.

Project Number: 32193-013
Project Name: Northwest Crop Diversification Project
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Lesson
The issues of land ownership and operational responsibilities needed to be clearly settled between public ministries and departments before the project embarked on market construction. This was particularly important for revenue-earning infrastructure like markets. More time than was envisaged at appraisal was needed to form output-oriented farmers' marketing groups (FMGs) and to put them into operation.

Project Number: 32193-013
Project Name: Northwest Crop Diversification Project
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Lesson
Project delays could have been reduced significantly by identifying and deploying qualified staff during project preparation, keeping those staff throughout implementation, obtaining early government approval for the project, and taking advance action on the recruitment of consultants before the loan agreement was signed.

Project Number: 32193-013
Project Name: Northwest Crop Diversification Project
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Lesson
Based on this performance evaluation there are three lessons. First, efficient public financial management (PFM) systems are important to ensure timely disbursements. While the Philippines has made progress in PFM reform, it clearly needs to do much more to address the low disbursement rates typical in the first semester of each year. Measures implemented in 2009 helped to improve disbursements. The government is addressing these and in February 2011 announced its PFM roadmap.

Project Number: 43300-013
Project Name: Countercyclical Support
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Lesson
As experienced in all past ADB-financed emergency assistance projects in Bangladesh, delegation of authority to ADB's resident mission in the borrower's country is essential for effective monitoring and immediate decision making.

Project Number: 41657-013
Project Name: Emergency Disaster Damage Rehabilitation (Sector) Project
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Lesson
Experience from the project demonstrated that the adoption of simplified approval procedures for procurement and other project activities is effective and enabled timely implementation of the project, and catalyzes early restoration of people's livelihood in the project-affected areas.

Project Number: 41657-013
Project Name: Emergency Disaster Damage Rehabilitation (Sector) Project
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Lesson
In Bangladesh, the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) and Roads and Highways Department (RHD) are still the two agencies that are reasonably capable of implementing ADB-assisted emergency projects. Implementation experience suggests that emergency assistance projects generally require adequate program for capacity building in the executing agencies, with strong institutional support regarding contract administration and fostering familiarity with ADB procedures for procurement and disbursement.

Project Number: 41657-013
Project Name: Emergency Disaster Damage Rehabilitation (Sector) Project
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Lesson
For complex multisector projects, monitoring of implementation through a central project steering committee (PSC) at a plenary ministry of the borrower is indispensable. Regular interaction between the borrower and ADB through the PSC contributed greatly to the success of the project. The use of a sector approach proved highly beneficial in identifying eligible subprojects spread over a wide geographical area, and enabled reallocation of loan funds from one component/sector to another based on a final needs assessment and performance.

Project Number: 41657-013
Project Name: Emergency Disaster Damage Rehabilitation (Sector) Project
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