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Lesson
The absence of detailed cost estimates and procurement plan that clearly allocate funds for external monitoring led to delays in recruiting external environment monitoring agencies, reduced the scope of external monitoring, and caused delays in the submission of environment monitoring reports for some subprojects. The lesson from this can be considered in similar future projects.

Project Number: 40665-013
Project Name: Songhua River Basin Water Pollution Control and Management Project
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Given the importance of the project to women (based on the household survey and focus group discussions during appraisal stage), more attention is needed to identify an appropriate gender mainstreaming category. Without this, the project may lack interventions that could directly improve women's access to and in managing basic urban infrastructure.

Project Number: 40665-013
Project Name: Songhua River Basin Water Pollution Control and Management Project
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To appropriately assess the progress and outcome of the project, project design must incorporate the measurable benefits to beneficiaries at the outcome level, and in general, baselines must be established for all targets.

Project Number: 30286-013
Project Name: Central Region Small and Medium Towns Development Project
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Lesson
Delays in recruiting consultants resulted in delays of subsequent activities (detailed design, resettlement planning, environmental management planning, and preparing bidding documents). Despite the start-up delays, the project achieved the targeted outputs, demonstrating that the executing agencies at the provincial level have the capacity for project implementation and the decentralized approach to project preparation and implementation is appropriate.

Project Number: 30286-013
Project Name: Central Region Small and Medium Towns Development Project
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Frequent changes of key government personnel—including program consultant specialists and project-level engineers—affected project continuity. Thus, ways to retain key government personnel for the project implementation period and beyond needed to be agreed with the government while excessive consultant staff turnover could carry more stringent contract penalties.

Project Number: 38254-033
Project Name: North Karnataka Urban Sector Investment Program, Tranche 1
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Lesson
Cost estimation—most of the reasons provided for the cost escalation were predictable, such as (i) higher bid premiums for civil works packages relative to engineering estimates, (ii) bidder concerns over timely payments (as the implementing agencies were small municipalities), (iii) difficulties in mobilizing resources for interior towns, and (iv) more thorough review of possible price risks was required.

Project Number: 38254-033
Project Name: North Karnataka Urban Sector Investment Program, Tranche 1
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Another lesson that was not raised by the PCR is the issue of tariff and cost recovery. The project agreement specified that wastewater tariffs were to be reviewed annually and adjusted as needed to achieve the cost-recovery targets. A special loan administration mission fielded in September 2010, however, reported that the process of increasing tariffs had been postponed for over 4 years. The auditor also raised concerns that the tariff revenue being received was insufficient to maintain the operation as well as meet debt obligations.

Project Number: 37597-013
Project Name: Wuhan Wastewater and Stormwater Management Project
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Lesson
For robust safeguards compliance monitoring, formats with specific monitoring parameters should be included in contracts. Information, education, and communication campaigns are required throughout project implementation, to address people's concerns expediently.

Project Number: 32254-023, 32254-013
Project Name: Urban Water Supply and Environmental Improvement in Madhya Pradesh Project
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Lesson
Innovative practices such as e-tendering, the use of trenchless pipe-laying technologies, and the simplified certification of contractors' invoices aid timely project execution.

Project Number: 32254-023, 32254-013
Project Name: Urban Water Supply and Environmental Improvement in Madhya Pradesh Project
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Household service connections for urban water and sewerage should be part of the project scope to ensure the optimum utilization of outputs and timely delivery of benefits.

Project Number: 32254-023, 32254-013
Project Name: Urban Water Supply and Environmental Improvement in Madhya Pradesh Project
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A water balance audit as a mandatory part of nonrevenue water projects would lead to proper design. An integrated supervisory control and data acquisition system for the water supply would support smooth operation.

Project Number: 32254-023, 32254-013
Project Name: Urban Water Supply and Environmental Improvement in Madhya Pradesh Project
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The size of contract packages should be optimized based on market conditions to attract contractors. Incentives for quality and timely delivery may foster better contractor performance.

Project Number: 32254-023, 32254-013
Project Name: Urban Water Supply and Environmental Improvement in Madhya Pradesh Project
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Lesson
A cutoff date should be decided for the selection, design, and procurement of project components to allow enough time for the proper implementation of these components.

Project Number: 32254-023, 32254-013
Project Name: Urban Water Supply and Environmental Improvement in Madhya Pradesh Project
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Lesson
That small investments can have large impacts can be seen in the rehabilitation of old water treatment plants in Bhopal, Jabalpur, and Gwalior, and in the Area Improvement Facilities (AIF) and Community Initiatives Fund (CIF) components.

Project Number: 32254-023, 32254-013
Project Name: Urban Water Supply and Environmental Improvement in Madhya Pradesh Project
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Advance actions for procurement and clearances help support timely completion. In addition, the procurement of satellite images and scaled maps and surveys before creating detailed designs can lead to more efficient outcomes, and help avoid design changes and delays.

Project Number: 32254-023, 32254-013
Project Name: Urban Water Supply and Environmental Improvement in Madhya Pradesh Project
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