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Lesson
The project yielded the following insights for similar, future community-driven development projects: (i) Inclusive involvement of community members in decision making and implementation of infrastructure projects is needed to ensure ownership and transparency. (ii) Community facilitators and consultants must be well selected so that only qualified and committed personnel are deployed to support communities in the empowerment process and on technical matters.

Project Number: 38385-013
Project Name: Rural Infrastructure Support to the PNPM Mandiri Project II
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Capacity development requires continuous investment. Human resource development is key to providing improved health services. A large number of health staff, including medical doctors and midwives, received scholarships to build capacity in obstetrics and neonatal care. However, local governments' fiscal capacity to finance capacity development was limited or nonexistent. Significant investments, both in terms of capacity building and health infrastructure, will be required to meet the maternal mortality MDG target by 2015.

Project Number: 34149-013
Project Name: Second Decentralized Health Services
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Project scope and coverage should be feasible. To increase impact, project resources should not be spread over a large geographic area. A large number of intended outputs most likely will slow down project implementation. Investment priorities based on health needs and poverty incidence may contribute to increased effectiveness.

Project Number: 34149-013
Project Name: Second Decentralized Health Services
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The feed-in tariff should apply to public and private power producers to boost renewable energy development and give it a bigger share of the energy mix in Indonesia. The project would have benefited from the feed-in tariff which provides better rate of return for the renewable energy power development.

Project Number: 34100-013
Project Name: Renewable Energy Development
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On project management and implementation, PLN's financial and management capacity needed to be strengthened and/or supported by qualified consultants and training. The project's design should have therefore included capacity assessment and capacity-building components to improve PLN's internal and project-related financial and management systems.

Project Number: 34100-013
Project Name: Renewable Energy Development
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On social safeguards, the project was hampered by difficulties in land acquisition, securing forestry permits, and soliciting project acceptance from affected people. The project lacked preparatory work on addressing social issues at the outset.

Project Number: 34100-013
Project Name: Renewable Energy Development
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ADB and the government should have evaluated the cost efficiency of renewable energy-based power generation in remote regions. Based on the total cost of each of the subprojects which included design, engineering, construction, project management, and social safeguards compliance), the average cost of 1 MW of power generation in 2013 is $2.7 million, considerably higher than diesel-based generation at $1 million per MW.

Project Number: 34100-013
Project Name: Renewable Energy Development
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At project implementation, Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) (State Electricity Company) should have assessed whether the engineering, procurement, construction modality was effective and appropriate for renewable energy projects. Experience from the project indicates that it may be more effective and efficient to procure engineering services and civil and electromechanical works separately.

Project Number: 34100-013
Project Name: Renewable Energy Development
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The use of prorated financing across the three sources of funds for all expenditure categories should be avoided. Adequate initial advances to imprest accounts should be provided to minimize pre-financing of loan activities through government temporary accounts. The fund flow mechanism adopted by Directorate General of Regional Development for regional activities should not be used in future projects.

Project Number: 32359-013
Project Name: Participatory Irrigation Sector Project
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The agricultural program was initially limited to classroom training, but adjusted to promote field level agriculture demonstrations and rehabilitation of tertiary irrigation canals. It was very successful and contributed to the high economic returns of the project.

Project Number: 32359-013
Project Name: Participatory Irrigation Sector Project
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Greater focus should be placed on O&M arrangements, which should be incorporated into the participatory irrigation management agreement with district governments. The Rencana Pengembangan dan Pengelolaan Irigasi (district irrigation management plan) is an effective planning mechanism that provides appropriate O&M for district systems using a needs-based budget approach.

Project Number: 32359-013
Project Name: Participatory Irrigation Sector Project
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Further support is needed at district and provincial level to ensure water users association and water users association federation develop into effective and sustainable organizations. Sufficient district and provincial level resources should be allocated to ensure that project gains are sustained and enhanced.

Project Number: 32359-013
Project Name: Participatory Irrigation Sector Project
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The project was transformative in developing the national system for participatory irrigation management and development. In most project provinces, this approach is now applied to the government's own provincial and district programs.

Project Number: 32359-013
Project Name: Participatory Irrigation Sector Project
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Water user association involvement in rehabilitation works yielded better quality and more efficient implementation than similar works implemented by contractors. The water users association and water users association federation were also willing to contribute their own resources to the work program.

Project Number: 32359-013
Project Name: Participatory Irrigation Sector Project
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The project has shown that the participatory approach in irrigation development and management is a feasible concept and that farmers are eager to be involved with irrigation operation and maintenance (O&M) and management. The involvement of water users association and water users association federation in the irrigation commission provided a good approach to address irrigation water distribution, cropping patterns, and O&M planning and implementation.

Project Number: 32359-013
Project Name: Participatory Irrigation Sector Project
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