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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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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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Clearer understanding between ADB and government of the key development objectives at the time of project design avoids costly changes in scope during project implementation.

Project Number: 31196-013
Project Name: Southern Agriculture Area Development Project
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The project performance report (PPR) ratings were inconsistently applied over the period of project implementation. The ratings are 'satisfactory' and 'highly satisfactory' until November 2008, and are then rated 'at risk' and 'potential problem' for the month December 2008. The ratings then revert to 'satisfactory', before the project is again rated 'at risk' and 'potential problem' in December 2009.

Project Number: 31196-013
Project Name: Southern Agriculture Area Development Project
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Lesson
The project design included 2,559 person-months of national consultants, approximately 35 people for each year of the 6 year implementation period. Despite the national consultant inputs appearing to be recruited through a firm/s on a quality- and cost-based selection basis, such a large requirement of consulting input could have potentially been difficult to effectively manage.

Project Number: 31196-013
Project Name: Southern Agriculture Area Development Project
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Improving the quality of the feasibility study will minimize uncertainty in identifying subprojects and lead to more precise cost estimates. When subproject cost estimates are uncertain, adequate physical contingencies should be provided in sector projects to mitigate against potential cost overruns.

Project Number: 31197-013
Project Name: Community-Based Infrastructure Services Sector Project
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Community-based organizations should be provided basic operation and maintenance kits to ensure sustainability of project activities.

Project Number: 31197-013
Project Name: Community-Based Infrastructure Services Sector Project
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Given that the idea of community-based preschools was innovative for the country, sufficient time should be given for a legal and regulatory framework to be established to adequately serve preschool educational services at the community level.

Project Number: 32143-013
Project Name: Community-Based Early Childhood Development Project
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If there are many small subprojects, the sector project modality should be adopted only with an executing agency having strong implementation capacity.

Project Number: 31197-013
Project Name: Community-Based Infrastructure Services Sector Project
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Community-based projects should be implemented with more involvement of local administrations than of just the central government.

Project Number: 31197-013
Project Name: Community-Based Infrastructure Services Sector Project
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Implementing a project in a new field, especially in a dynamically changing transition economy, requires flexibility on the part of both the government and ADB. Willingness to adjust the project's design to a new environment or new findings and acceptance of extra time required for the adjustments is essential. To be successful, the project must also be transparent to receive support from local governments and communities.

Project Number: 32143-013
Project Name: Community-Based Early Childhood Development 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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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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