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Participating financial institutions (PFIs) should be selected more thoroughly keeping in view their relevant experience, geographic coverage, staff, and other resources.

Project Number: 31577-013
Project Name: Grain Productivity Improvement Project
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For agriculture enterprise development to be successful, sufficient lead time and necessary information and data should be provided, preferably through demonstration farms, for farmers to be convinced of what types of machinery and equipment to procure; subloan procedures should be simplified and the processing time shortened.

Project Number: 31577-013
Project Name: Grain Productivity Improvement Project
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Project management staff benefits should match with those of comparable private sector institutions to prevent high turnover that constrains project management.

Project Number: 31577-013
Project Name: Grain Productivity Improvement Project
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While involving a number of government institutions and building their capacity is desirable for sustainability, enough resources should be provided for effective coordination.

Project Number: 31577-013
Project Name: Grain Productivity Improvement Project
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For water users' associations (WUAs) and other community-based organizations to be effective and sustainable, they should have a good source(s) of income and reasonable leverage to collect.

Project Number: 31577-013
Project Name: Grain Productivity Improvement Project
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The implementation period should be realistic, determined after a thorough analysis of activities and their inter-relations and sequence. As the design implementation period of the project was short, some targets, particularly those related to varietal development and testing, were ambitious.

Project Number: 31577-013
Project Name: Grain Productivity Improvement Project
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Field trial-cum-demonstration farms are effective in introducing improved technologies to farmers.

Project Number: 31577-013
Project Name: Grain Productivity Improvement Project
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In forming loan covenants regarding policy reforms, sector issues should be reviewed in total, as some reforms may be rendered ineffective by various distortions.

Project Number: 31577-013
Project Name: Grain Productivity Improvement Project
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It is important to provide suitable incentives to attract commercial seed growers, which is key to providing quality seed of new varieties to farmers, in addition to incentives for increasing the capacity of the breeding institutions to multiply high- quality foundation seed.

Project Number: 31577-013
Project Name: Grain Productivity Improvement Project
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The introduction of in-kind beneficiaries' contributions should be carefully evaluated in projects where the works are done by contractors and not by the communities themselves.

Project Number: 31197-013
Project Name: Community-Based Infrastructure Services Sector Project
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The teachers' guides could cost effectively support the timely roll out of student centered learning. Teachers' guides could be expanded to identify tools, provide additional referencing to learning materials for teachers, and promote greater use of school libraries. The student centered learning is one of the areas which educators in Uzbekistan need to discuss so that the government can move to a more efficient and cost-effective approach to provision of textbooks, workbooks and teachers' guides. [Main text, para. 45; Appendix 7, paras. 16-17]

Project Number: 36510-013
Project Name: Second Textbook Development Project
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As the project proved, communities are powerful agents for designing and implementing projects that they themselves benefit from. Those community developed projects are likely to be sustainable.

Project Number: 32143-013
Project Name: Community-Based Early Childhood Development Project
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Except for special circumstances, such as when a pilot project is small or the executing agency is experienced in project implementation, the project design should be simplified to ease implementation. Generally, the focus should be on a single sector with a minimum number of types of measures. Although the project focused on rural development and agriculture, it comprised different measures (rural business strengthening, irrigation and drainage system enhancement, and cotton and wheat quota system reform) as a result of incorporating most of the challenges encountered in the sector.

Project Number: 30458-013
Project Name: Ak Altin Agricultural Development Project
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Community participation in all stages of implementation, from identification to design to construction processes, is critical for the success of investments.

Project Number: 31197-013
Project Name: Community-Based Infrastructure Services Sector Project
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Designing an improved and more relevant curriculum that focuses on competency-based learning objectives and promotes high cognitive skills requires further support and commitment from the Ministry of Public Education. Expected project outputs related to improvements in the curriculum were only partially achieved. Curriculum development was also assessed as less efficient in achieving outputs due to delays in fielding consultants and differences in perceptions of curriculum by national education developers and international consultants.

Project Number: 36510-013
Project Name: Second Textbook Development Project
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