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Financial sustainability of project assets and benefits, in this case, the sanitary and phytosanitary system, should be addressed at the outset or during implementation and not only identified as an issue at appraisal, and establishing appropriate financing mechanisms for operation and maintenance at the outset would help ensure adequate maintenance after project completion.

Project Number: 43120-013
Project Name: Trade Facilitation: Improved Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Handling in Greater Mekong Subregion Trade Project
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Active support of relevant government agencies and strong ownership of the project management units contribute significantly to project success. In developing member countries where institutional capacity is weak, it is critical that concerned agencies are both capacitated and committed in achieving the intended results.

Project Number: 43120-013
Project Name: Trade Facilitation: Improved Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Handling in Greater Mekong Subregion Trade Project
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Two of the outcome performance indicators could not be measured directly using available data. This not only affects assessment of final outcome achievements but can also affect implementation. If indicators cannot be tracked accurately, project managers cannot receive regular implementation progress data indicating whether the project is on track or requires modification—or whether the targets themselves need to be revised. Flawed performance indicators need to be addressed as early as possible during implementation.

Project Number: 40368-022
Project Name: Secondary
Education Sector Development Program
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The series of interlinked sector development programs operating with the framework of the government’s education sector policies and plans has proven effective in supporting government secondary education reforms. This long-term approach has provided consistent support and certainty to a long and complex reform agenda that successfully extended the secondary school cycle while simultaneously supporting broadened access and improved quality and efficiency.

Project Number: 40368-022
Project Name: Secondary
Education Sector Development Program
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The program did not give sufficient emphasis to ethnicity and included no specific ethnicity expertise even though ethnic students were the main project beneficiaries. A detailed analysis of different ethnic minority areas would have yielded a fuller understanding of the factors influencing education choices and outcomes. Inclusion of specialistsin the program team could have deepened the analysis in EGP, strengthened the engagement of ethnic groups, and likely strengthened outcomes for ethnic communities

Project Number: 40368-022
Project Name: Secondary
Education Sector Development Program
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Simultaneous improvement of relevance, quality, access, and management of TVET and the development of a new labor market information system were perhaps overly ambitious especially considering the limited resources and the lack of a national and unified qualification framework.

Project Number: 42278-022
Project Name: Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Strengthening Technical and Vocational Education and Training Project
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Lack of labor market information can undermine cooperation with the private sector.

Project Number: 42278-022
Project Name: Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Strengthening Technical and Vocational Education and Training Project
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The competency-based training approach offers shortened and modular training programs, which could provide learning opportunities to young students in rural and underserved areas.

Project Number: 42278-022
Project Name: Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Strengthening Technical and Vocational Education and Training Project
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Adverse cultural norms and beliefs should be taken into account when planning gender-specific interventions and setting related goals.

Project Number: 42278-022
Project Name: Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Strengthening Technical and Vocational Education and Training Project
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Due diligence and an in-depth understanding of sociocultural attitudes and the identification of baseline indicators are vital to making targets more realistic and making monitoring more achievable.

Project Number: 42134-022
Project Name: Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Strengthening Higher Education Project
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Realistic target setting of project outcome and outputs, including those of gender, will minimize changes during implementation.

Project Number: 42134-022
Project Name: Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Strengthening Higher Education Project
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Support to higher education reforms should be planned and conceived over at least a 10- to12-year time frame to ensure that activities can be carried over and consolidated even under separate projects.

Project Number: 42134-022
Project Name: Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Strengthening Higher Education Project
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It is important to identify actions that are realistic.

Project Number: 42134-022
Project Name: Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Strengthening Higher Education Project
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It is essential that the DMF in the RRP accurately presents the outcomes, outputs, and indicators that will be used to evaluate the performance of the program. Monitoring systems should be specified in the RRP and established at implementation and that responsible staff are identified at central and local levels for monitoring key activities.

Project Number: 32312-013
Project Name: Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Basic Education Sector Development Program
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There was value gained by engaging MOES units as implementing partners to help build institutional capacity and ensure sustainability at post-project. This is often discussed in the design of development aid programs but is rarely evident in the final implementation. In this program, the careful identification of responsibilities and division of labor, clear unit and individual accountability, and sustained monitoring were critical to its success.

Project Number: 32312-013
Project Name: Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Basic Education Sector Development Program
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