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Lesson
Close interaction with project preparatory technical assistance (PPTA) consultants while an investment project is being prepared promotes better understanding of the project and helps build the confidence of the EA that it will be successfully implemented.

Project Number: 37579-012, 37579-032
Project Name: Sustainable Natural Resource Management and Productivity Enhancement Project
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Considering project implementation status and associated issues in changes in ADB project officers would help minimize the disruptive effect of such changes.

Project Number: 37579-012, 37579-032
Project Name: Sustainable Natural Resource Management and Productivity Enhancement Project
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Focus and selectivity foster coherence in project design and help enhance the impact of projects.

Project Number: 37579-012, 37579-032
Project Name: Sustainable Natural Resource Management and Productivity Enhancement Project
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Project performance monitoring and reporting systems that track implementation challenges before they become problems contribute to project success.

Project Number: 37579-012, 37579-032
Project Name: Sustainable Natural Resource Management and Productivity Enhancement Project
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Project designs that incorporate tacit knowledge, especially lessons from similar past projects, stand a good chance of success.

Project Number: 37579-012, 37579-032
Project Name: Sustainable Natural Resource Management and Productivity Enhancement Project
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Safeguards compliance reviews provide the key to ensuring sustainable natural resource management. As such, they should be undertaken as an integral part of the subproject appraisal phase. Results of the reviews should inform improvements in design and the implementation of subprojects.

Project Number: 37579-012, 37579-032
Project Name: Sustainable Natural Resource Management and Productivity Enhancement Project
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Carefully developed grant covenants facilitate grant agreements and early effectiveness.

Project Number: 37579-012, 37579-032
Project Name: Sustainable Natural Resource Management and Productivity Enhancement Project
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Involving EAs/IAs in project preparation as well as in other stages of the project cycle promotes continuity and commitment and a solid understanding of the project.

Project Number: 37579-012, 37579-032
Project Name: Sustainable Natural Resource Management and Productivity Enhancement Project
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The community-driven development approach is effective. Although it seems self-evident, this fundamental lesson is often overlooked and needs to be reiterated. Community involvement in planning and responsibility for O&M is a practical and cost-effective way of managing such small-scale systems. The government-enabled community ownership and capacity building approach employed by the project will be useful in other efforts to scale up agricultural development, for example in improving rural health, water supply and sanitation, and education.

Project Number: 34188-013
Project Name: Northern Community-Managed Irrigation Sector Project
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Sustainable O&M and water provision are crucial. Sustainable O&M that guarantees water provision is an incentive for farmers to remain members of WUAs. Farmers tend to withdraw from WUAs if their fields do not receive adequate water flows. Without water delivery to their fields, there was no incentive for farmers to work on land conversion and therefore some refused to invest their resources in converting undeveloped land to paddy fields, which would have increased the irrigated area under the project.

Project Number: 34188-013
Project Name: Northern Community-Managed Irrigation Sector Project
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Irrigation infrastructure should be built to last. Frequent damage to irrigation facilities caused by flooding and landslides is a big threat to the sustainability of infrastructure improvements. Considering the poor watershed management in the areas surrounding subprojects and incompatible land uses (e.g., hilly land corn farming above the irrigated rice fields), the construction of irrigation infrastructure needs to improve. Preventive and protective measures need to be taken to guard against recurring intense rainfalls and extreme weather events.

Project Number: 34188-013
Project Name: Northern Community-Managed Irrigation Sector Project
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Include sufficient support for project management during early project implementation

Project Number: 31351-013, 31351-014
Project Name: Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Smallholder Development Project
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Ensure adequate monitoring of performance indicators throughout implementation, including baseline data and making adjustments where needed to reflect the actual scope of the project.

Project Number: 31351-013, 31351-014
Project Name: Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Smallholder Development Project
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The recruitment of consultants took longer than expected. Again, the PCR did not indicate the reason for the delays although the complexity of the consultancy contract may have been partly responsible. Under the project, implementation consultants were to be hired under a single contract yet this was divided into two packages—one to be financed by AFD and the other by ADB. This is an unusual arrangement and assistance from ADB and AFD during the recruitment process may have helped facilitate and expedite the recruitment process.

Project Number: 33356-013, 33356-014
Project Name: Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Nam Ngum River Basin Development Sector Project
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The need for ADB to be proactive and to keep an open dialogue with the government to minimize any delay in loan effectiveness. The PCR did not identify the reason for the long delay, nor did it mention any attempt by ADB to resolve any difficulty that was causing the delay. The Lao PDR is not a new borrower from ADB and is, therefore, generally familiar with the requirements of loan effectiveness, hence, potential problem caused by new procedure or policies of the government should have been identified during project preparation and measures to mitigate these should have been included.

Project Number: 33356-013, 33356-014
Project Name: Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Nam Ngum River Basin Development Sector Project
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