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Developing a financial operation and maintenance (O&M_ mechanism during project design and preparation plays a critical role in ensuring project sustainability, specifically when the government’s resource capacity is limited. For example, appropriate identification of tariff policies, revenue streams, and cost recovery mechanisms at the onset to support the O&M cost will help in ensuring the project sustainability, as well as in sustaining the project benefits.

Project Number: 43253-023
Project Name: Karnataka Integrated and Sustainable Water Resources Management Investment Program - Project 1
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An effective benefit and monitoring evaluation system incentivizes a better-informed implementation progress and risks management. It permits appropriate tracking of project performance and indicators, and coordination and accountability of project activities among agencies. An appropriate monitoring and results framework is crucial in the achievement of its intended results.

Project Number: 43253-023
Project Name: Karnataka Integrated and Sustainable Water Resources Management Investment Program - Project 1
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The design of future irrigation rehabilitation projects can build on the project’s community empowerment model but also consider options for increasing beneficiary contributions for water use. The project increased community ownership and management of irrigation infrastructure through resourcing and strengthening the participation of women and their roles in the water user cooperative societies (WUCSs). Despite gains in irrigation fee collection, the WUCSs and infrastructure O&M requirements are not yet financially sustainable without significant government inputs.

Project Number: 43253-023
Project Name: Karnataka Integrated and Sustainable Water Resources Management Investment Program - Project 1
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Targets need to be specific and evidence-based and indicators well-defined and measurable to enable a reliable assessment of implementation progress and project accomplishments and performance at completion. This project suffered from weaknesses in indicators and the results chain. Examples were inadequate links between intended outputs and outcome, lack of specific targets (output 1 and outcome), and poorly defined target (output 3). One impact target was misplaced (project staffing) and another was deemed unachievable (number of WUCSs confirming receipt of water services).

Project Number: 43253-023
Project Name: Karnataka Integrated and Sustainable Water Resources Management Investment Program - Project 1
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Project reporting needs to be undertaken holistically to provide a comprehensive view of implementation progress and support the synergistic delivery of project outputs. The inclusion of an implementing agency, the Advanced Centre for Integrated Water Resources Management (ACIWRM), which is independent of the executing agency (EA), the Karnataka Neeravari Nigam Ltd (KNNL), created confusion in quarterly and annual reporting requirements.

Project Number: 43253-023
Project Name: Karnataka Integrated and Sustainable Water Resources Management Investment Program - Project 1
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Proactive and attentive ADB reviews foster project success. The implementation of this project benefitted from proactive and attentive ADB reviews. These reviews facilitated timely approval of submissions, including requests for extensions and cancelation of loan funds.

Project Number: 43253-023
Project Name: Karnataka Integrated and Sustainable Water Resources Management Investment Program - Project 1
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Poor quality design and monitoring frameworks (DMFs) lead to inaccuracies in project performance and evaluation

Project Number: 40156-023
Project Name: Sustainable Coastal Protection and Management Investment Program – Tranche 1
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More attention needs to be given to oversight and supervision matters during regular missions.

Project Number: 40156-023
Project Name: Sustainable Coastal Protection and Management Investment Program – Tranche 1
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Delays in consultant engagement and problems in consultant management, which negatively impact project implementation, may be avoided by providing additional support to executing/implementing agencies (EAs/IAs).

Project Number: 40156-023
Project Name: Sustainable Coastal Protection and Management Investment Program – Tranche 1
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Project Number: 38411-023
Project Name: Orissa Integrated Irrigated Agriculture and Water Management Investment Program – Project 1
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A thorough assessment of the executing agency (EA) institutional capacity must be undertaken to ensure that the project design matches the existing implementation capacity.

Project Number: 38411-023
Project Name: Orissa Integrated Irrigated Agriculture and Water Management Investment Program - Project 1
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Continued monitoring and guidance to WUAs is necessary to ensure sustainable O&M and improved agricultural practices.

Project Number: 38411-023
Project Name: Orissa Integrated Irrigated Agriculture and Water Management Investment Program - Project 1
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Assessing the technical limitations of existing dated surface irrigation systems requires a rigorous process.

Project Number: 38411-023
Project Name: Orissa Integrated Irrigated Agriculture and Water Management Investment Program - Project 1
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Some form of incentive may be necessary to attract staff to project management units and new units or sections within executing agencies specifically established for project activities.

Project Number: 37056-013
Project Name: Chhattisgarh Irrigation Development Project
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Project preparation should consider the capacity of local civil works contractors and ensure that eligibility criteria for bidding are not so prescriptive that they preclude participation by all but large contractors who may not be interested in smaller-scale works.

Project Number: 37056-013
Project Name: Chhattisgarh Irrigation Development Project
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