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Need for market-based remuneration. The government's cost norm is too low and not competitive. Because of this, recruiting experienced senior national consultants (with the exception of retired government employees) remains a challenge. Training allowances are also too low. This also applies to its training allowances, which discourages participation by staff who must travel from where they live and work to take part. Future projects should include a clause that allows remuneration for consultants and allowances for staff training to be market-based.

Project Number: 34348-013
Project Name: Preventive Health System Support Project
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Phased approach. Implementing the project across almost four dozen provinces and such a wide geographical area led to challenges both in providing laboratory equipment in a timely manner and in ensuring that training was provided in the use of this equipment. A phased approach prioritizing provinces with stronger technical capacities would ensure a closer link between the provision of equipment and training thus increase efficiency.

Project Number: 34348-013
Project Name: Preventive Health System Support Project
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Consideration of local government fiscal capacity. The project originally required participating provinces to provide funds to upgrade the PPMCs (provincial preventive medicine centers), including their laboratories. While local government commitment to preventive health care is significant in Viet Nam, the fiscal situation of some provinces does not allow investments of the scale that was needed. ADB needs to carefully consider the local costs of such infrastructure projects and the fiscal ability of local governments to meet them before committing to an investment.

Project Number: 34348-013
Project Name: Preventive Health System Support Project
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A project that requires behavioral change within communities needs a long-term agenda. Measuring the impact of such a project will take time. A project may be deemed successful on the basis of short-term outcomes, but it may not endure, particularly if there were deficiencies during project implementation. Thus, setting impact performance indicators to be achieved by 2012 (the year of project closing) might have been too short-term.

Project Number: 38117-013
Project Name: Nutrition Improvement through Community Empowerment Project
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Project design and implementation schedule. Design and implementation of policy reform activities are inherently complex, requiring coordination between various stakeholders. Considering the complexities, sufficient time should be allowed. Some of the target years specified in the DMF (design and monitoring framework) were unrealistic. Given the time required for design and implementation, especially under uncertain political situations, an adequate degree of flexibility needs to be built into the project design to respond to changes in the government's policies and priorities.

Project Number: 39254-022
Project Name: Education Sector Reform Project
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It is problematic to use a country's overall position in the Doing Business report to monitor progress in improving the business environment and overall competitiveness. The report has been subject to criticism and methodological problems have been identified. Its usefulness for monitoring progress in similar programs lies more in monitoring the country's performance over time - particularly in indicators that are not sensitive to the representative case used by the World Bank team - rather than measuring progress against other economies.

Project Number: 41544-022
Project Name: Investment Climate Improvement Program
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Despite an improvement in the business environment, firms in the Kyrgyz Republic have had limited progress in developing new productive capabilities

Project Number: 41544-022
Project Name: Investment Climate Improvement Program
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Implementation of institutional reforms under the program was more effective and efficient when there was an adequate and detailed blueprint with clear and measurable results indicators, as well as where project-type implementation arrangements were in place to facilitate the change process (e.g., the business registration system or the new inspection process for tax administration were supported by detailed blueprints and financed through investment projects). The $2.9 million grant approved under the program cluster was thus very useful.

Project Number: 41544-022
Project Name: Investment Climate Improvement Program
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Important that the project design correctly balance the envisaged outputs with the planned implementation time, the capacity of the executing and implementing agencies, and project resources to avoid overambitious outputs and outcomes. It is essential that implementing units are properly established at inception with competent staff who are knowledgeable in project implementation.

Project Number: 33217-013
Project Name: Employment Skills Training Project
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No new lessons

Project Number: 37596-013
Project Name: Guangxi Nanning Urban Environmental Upgrading Project
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No new lessons

Project Number: 37475-013
Project Name: Madrasah Education Development Project
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No additional lesson.

Project Number: 30271-013
Project Name: Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Roads for Rural Development Project
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A more rigorous assessment of fund raising management of the pourashavas and operation and maintenance management capacity at the central and local levels of government needs to be factored into future project designs.

Project Number: 29041-013
Project Name: Urban Governance and Infrastructure Improvement (Sector) Project
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Objective quantitative assessment of benefits and costs may help in the setting up a mechanism for fair distribution of costs across countries. The IEM economic analysis indicates that the net present value of the project for the Lao PDR could be made positive if higher grant elements were used in the financing by the PRC and Thailand.

Project Number: 34231-013
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion: Northern Economic Corridor Project in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic
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An agreement for collective maintenance is an essential element for the sustainability of subregional road projects, such as this project. A mechanism needs to be devised for the costs to be shared in proportion to the benefits received by the stakeholders.

Project Number: 34231-013
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion: Northern Economic Corridor Project in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic
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