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Better infrastructure directly increases attendance rates, and brings significant savings from improved heating and energy efficiency of buildings. The inclusion of maintenance of supplied equipment and training for relevant staff as part of the supply contract is an effective tool to ensure equipment sustainability and ongoing effectiveness. Thorough assessment of compliance with qualification requirements during consultant recruitment can prevent unnecessary problems and delays during project implementation.

Project Number: 39304-012
Project Name: Second Education Project
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Because of budget constraints in the last year of project implementation, counterpart funds were not available for 2012 (as of writing of the PCR). During project implementation, availability of counterpart funds should be consistently monitored to avoid payment gaps to contractors, which may cause construction delay. Early action from the government may be taken, such as seeking supplementary financing, scope reduction, or seeking cofinancing opportunities.

Project Number: 39674-022
Project Name: CAREC Transport Corridor 1 (Bishkek-Torugart Road) Project 1
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Provision of learning and teaching materials (LTMs) for more than one grade should be funded to effectively launch a new curriculum. For textbook bids, good practice involves achieving continuity of content and approach by bidding subject textbooks for a series of grades, i.e., mathematics LTMs for grades 1-4 have to be developed by the same team of authors. A shortage of LTMs and poor teacher capacity can undermine the whole curriculum reform process.

Project Number: 39304-012
Project Name: Second Education Project
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In ongoing and future projects, training and advice on ADB's safeguard policy and procedure need to be strengthened, and this should be extended to consultants and related personnel. Strong safeguards compliance monitoring by the executing agency, consultants, and ADB can help in timely resolution of any issues that emerge during project implementation. Furthermore, the survey of all the houses adjacent to the project road was good practice, and one which should be applied to all other ADB projects in the country.

Project Number: 39674-022
Project Name: CAREC Transport Corridor 1 (Bishkek-Torugart Road) Project 1
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Establishing a project steering committee is challenging where separate development partner committees already exist to oversee arrangements for Pacific countries.

Project Number: 38599-022
Project Name: HIV/AIDS Prevention and Capacity Development in the Pacific
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An executing agency's ability to implement project activities within set timeframes is diluted where there is limited PMU capacity, a lack of experience with ADB procedures, and inadequate executive oversight.

Project Number: 38599-022
Project Name: HIV/AIDS Prevention and Capacity Development in the Pacific
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Efforts to strengthen routine surveillance and laboratory capacity will achieve only limited success where health information systems and laboratory services are weak.

Project Number: 38599-022
Project Name: HIV/AIDS Prevention and Capacity Development in the Pacific
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Even if a project is aligned with regional strategies, designs need to incorporate sufficient national consultation and consider country absorptive and technical capacity and commitment.

Project Number: 38599-022
Project Name: HIV/AIDS Prevention and Capacity Development in the Pacific
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New or innovative projects should establish consistency of country definitions of dataand monitoring variables with international conventions during project preparation.This consistency is particularly important if such variables are to be used for projectperformance reporting and the determination of outcome and impact at project completion.

Project Number: 32143-013
Project Name: Community-Based Early Childhood Development Project
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National M&E remains a challenge due to lack of capacity and minimal regional support to assist participating DMCs. While regional evaluations of some activities have taken place, they need to focus on impact or outcome indicators rather than on the process of implementation.

Project Number: 38599-022
Project Name: HIV/AIDS Prevention and Capacity Development in the Pacific
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There were clear benefits to the involvement of the resident mission in supervision due to closer involvement and understanding of the local environment. In addition, project documents revealed that review missions in the early years of the project were not adequately apprised, by the PMU or consultants, of the seriousness of the project’s problems. The lesson from this is the need for (i) in-depth analysis by missions, and (ii) the establishment of mechanisms for consultants to prepare realistic reports to the PMU and ADB.

Project Number: 31197-013
Project Name: Community-Based Infrastructure Services Sector Project
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During implementation, the civil work contractor demonstrated resilience and a strong ability to engage in complex civil works under the challenging geological and climate conditions. Civil works contracts under future projects need to offer greater incentives to contractors for better performance and penalize those contractors with poor performance.

Project Number: 36257-013
Project Name: Southern Transport Corridor Road Rehabilitation Project
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Sufficient contingency is needed to cover cost increases. For future projects, a design-build contracting can ensure more sophisticated engineering and mitigate the risk of price escalation.

Project Number: 36257-013
Project Name: Southern Transport Corridor Road Rehabilitation Project
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As the Kyrgyz Republic is a mountainous country and the project area is known for its slope instability, these challenges should have been taken into account during project preparation. Careful and rigorous technical design and appropriate advance actions would have contributed to a higher degree of project readiness for implementation.

Project Number: 36257-013
Project Name: Southern Transport Corridor Road Rehabilitation Project
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The completion of the project was delayed by about 1 year, primarily due to the failure to finalize cofinancing arrangements with Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). This issue might have been avoided if the final solution (financing by the government) had been adopted faster. In the future, the government and ADB need to select cofinancing partners carefully.

Project Number: 36257-013
Project Name: Southern Transport Corridor Road Rehabilitation Project
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