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Although ADB approved advance contracting and retroactive financing, project implementation experienced initial delays mainly in procurement. Commencement of civil works was delayed for about 3 months because of delayed recruitment of the construction supervision consultants. In the future, implementation should be scheduled to ensure timely recruitment of consultants prior to civil works start. Contract duration must take into account unexpected weather conditions which may hinder the planned execution of works.

Project Number: 39674-022
Project Name: CAREC Transport Corridor 1 (Bishkek-Torugart Road) Project 1
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The dilemma of this project is the lack of achievement and partial achievement of some outcome indicators, while planned outputs were mostly delivered. Ensuring the direct link between supported activities, outputs and outcome, and relevance of their indicators is critical.

Project Number: 39304-012
Project Name: Second Education Project
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Road safety and road asset management components should be included in all future projects since they are keys to project sustainability and effectiveness. Since road safety involves various agencies, design and implementation arrangements for this component should be based on discussions with all related agencies and policy dialogue held with high-level government.

Project Number: 39674-022
Project Name: CAREC Transport Corridor 1 (Bishkek-Torugart Road) Project 1
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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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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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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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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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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 required close attention to many details, and it could have immediately and effectively performed many administrative tasks if the resident mission had had more capacity to assist the project.

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