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The PPMS report was prepared but not comprehensive. The project performance monitoring system (PPMS) should include all the technical and socioeconomic indicators that are essential to monitor the project's outcome and impact.

Project Number: 38074-013
Project Name: Kashkadarya and Navoi Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project
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Consultants should be fielded early in the project implementation period.

Project Number: 35496-013
Project Name: Western Uzbekistan Rural Water Supply Project
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There may be wider lessons that can be drawn about donor assistance that would effect major policy reforms in transition economies. While donors are keen to free up agriculture, and the government in principle agrees, it is nonetheless extremely cautious about reforms. The government continues to operate at its own pace, and is almost immune to international pressure. Thus, until a reform roadmap has been defined and fully endorsed by all stakeholders, including the upper levels of government, little is likely to be achieved.

Project Number: 30458-013
Project Name: Ak Altin Agricultural Development Project
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The project management unit (PMU) and project implementation units (PIUs) should be staffed and consultants recruited in a timely manner to carry out the necessary work at an early stage, such as the preparation of subproject appraisal reports (SARs), land acquisition and involuntary resettlement plans (LARPs), detailed designs, and bid documents; the selection of contractors; and coordination with government agencies and other stakeholders.

Project Number: 38074-013
Project Name: Kashkadarya and Navoi Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project
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The inclusion of a resettlement specialist within consulting services is essential to ensure timely preparation of LARPs.

Project Number: 38074-013
Project Name: Kashkadarya and Navoi Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project
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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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No new lessons

Project Number: 34160-013
Project Name: Education Sector Development 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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Reliable data are essential to identifying problems and monitoring progress. However, the project progress reports often lacked substance, contained stale information, and did not effectively address implementation issues. The requirement of thorough reporting could have been better formulated in the supervision consultant's terms of reference. MOTC needs to review the project progress reports.

Project Number: 36257-013
Project Name: Southern Transport Corridor Road Rehabilitation Project
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The project road is part of a Central Asian Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) corridor undergoing rehabilitation under various project supported by several financing institutions during the same period. As these projects are not expected to be completed at the same time, the benefits of the complete corridor will not be fully achieved until the entire Osh- Sary-Tash-Irkeshtam-Karamyk road is improved. This is expected to happen in 2012.

Project Number: 36257-013
Project Name: Southern Transport Corridor Road Rehabilitation 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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Although this was the first agriculture investment project with MAWR the 3-year extension could have been avoided had the bidding documents been prepared, the management consultants and PMU staff contracted, and target farms identified earlier.

Project Number: 30313-012
Project Name: Agriculture Area Development
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Comprehensive and integrated projects can be successful. The success of this project can be attributed to the initial emphasis on the project management unit (PMU) obtaining a clear understanding of the project, an initial focus on process and procedures, minimum turnover of key PMU staff, good oversight by Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources (MAWR), good partnerships with other donors, and successful contracting and supervision of local civil works and agriculture extension firms.

Project Number: 30313-012
Project Name: Agriculture Area Development
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