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Road safety and road asset management. Road safety and road asset management components should be included in all future transport projects because they are essential to the sustainability of projects and to their effectiveness. As road safety involves various agencies, the design and implementation arrangements for this component should be based on extensive discussions with all related agencies and policy dialogue with high-level government bodies.

Project Number: 39676-023
Project Name: CAREC Regional Road Corridor Improvement Project
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Performance-based maintenance (PBM). Implementing PBM contracts requires sufficient preparation and time for transition. More attention should be given to PBM readiness and to such important factors as allocating proper budgets, developing institutional frameworks, establishing legislation and procedures, recruiting qualified consultants, mitigating negative effects on road maintenance units, and fostering local private contractors. In both countries, the PBM pilot testing was delayed mainly because of the lack of experience and knowledge of the executing agencies.

Project Number: 39676-023
Project Name: CAREC Regional Road Corridor Improvement Project
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Border infrastructure improvement. The benefits of good infrastructure at border crossings can be fully realized only when countries on both sides of a border fund complementary investments and when their border control agencies cooperate. Projects should support the construction and renovation of border-crossing points in a country where investments to upgrade complementary facilities on the other side of the border have been completed or are nearing completion. [Main text, para. 53]

Project Number: 39676-023
Project Name: CAREC Regional Road Corridor Improvement Project
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To avoid potential cost overruns during the project implementation period, the engineering design of roads at the project preparation stage should be based on the most reliable traffic forecasts and sufficient geological and climate surveys to enable the preparation of realistic designs without the need to amend them later. Road safety issues should be identified during the project design period in consultation with local communities, and features that enhance road safety, including on sidewalks and at bus shelters, should be adequately reflected in the project design. [Main text, para.

Project Number: 39676-023
Project Name: CAREC Regional Road Corridor Improvement Project
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No new lessons.

Project Number: 38074-013
Project Name: Kashkadarya and Navoi Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project
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Proper due diligence on the capacity and commitment of government partner institutions like the COA to implementcomponents assigned to them should have been undertaken at appraisal to determine the risks and sustainability of involving them.

Project Number: 30320-013
Project Name: Agriculture Area Development Project
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The lack of an appraisal mission may have contributed to insufficient attention to both key aspects of project design and to ensuring borrower ownership. This is in relation to the decision by ADB to waive an appraisal missions.

Project Number: 35496-013
Project Name: Western Uzbekistan Rural Water Supply Project
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Reduce implementation delays and ensuring that water supply networks have raw water to distribute and uninterrupted power to pump it.

Project Number: 35496-013
Project Name: Western Uzbekistan Rural Water Supply Project
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This relates to the baseline data that was missing in the project. The lack of basic data as the benchmark for evaluation has caused difficulties in assessing the project’s achievements; hence, the evaluation was mainly based on qualitative data.

Project Number: 40049-013, 40049-012
Project Name: Rural Basic Education Project
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Pay attention to broader issues of water resource management.

Project Number: 35496-013
Project Name: Western Uzbekistan Rural Water Supply Project
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The project’s main objective is to improve the quality, relevance, and equitable access to basic education in Uzbekistan by using ICT. However, the RRP and the PCR had limited discussions on this main objective, presumably because the project was being implemented alongside other projects in the education sector. Notwithstanding, achieving an enhanced access and higher quality of basic education was an essential accomplishment of the project that should have been highlighted.

Project Number: 37698-013, 37698-012
Project Name: Information and Communications Technology in Basic Education Project
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The project design should have focused primarily on components 1 and 2, and only those parts of components 3 and 4 that were doable, by taking into account the capacity of the executing agency in implementing these components. A more accurate assessment of its capacity should have been conducted at project preparation stage.

Project Number: 37698-013, 37698-012
Project Name: Information and Communications Technology in Basic Education Project
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Without proper monitoring and evaluation with baseline data, targets, and reported results, the achievement of intended public health impacts by a project like this might occur but will be impossible to demonstrate.

Project Number: 35496-013
Project Name: Western Uzbekistan Rural Water Supply Project
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It is unlikely that civil servants in the Kyrgyz Republic have the necessary incentives to manage complex projects as unremunerated, part-time project managers, even if they are highly competent. It is also unlikely that public procurement processes can be managed without specialized procurement skills. A fully dedicated project manager and a procurement specialist should have been appointed to the project.

Project Number: 41544-072
Project Name: Investment Climate Improvement Program System Support Project
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Implementation of a single window for foreign trade is an extremely complex process that requires a long-term commitment and high-level support. It also requires continuous dialogue with all concerned government agencies to lower resistance to change, including by middle managers and operational staff. The project should have had a longer implementation period and should have included a stronger communication and change management component. A project administration manual and a design and monitoring framework (DMF) at an earlier stage could have helped expedite implementation.

Project Number: 41544-072
Project Name: Investment Climate Improvement Program System Support Project
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