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The Basic Education Sector Development Program demonstrated the efficacy of the sector development program (SDP) modality in providing complementary policy and implementation support, if well designed and supported. However, in future SDPs, it will be important to link program and project components more explicitly (e.g., identifying how the project will support achievement of policy actions) to maximize efficacy, while ensuring close alignment in the content of the Reports and Recommendations of the President and the design and monitoring framework.

Project Number: 32312-013
Project Name: Basic Education Sector Development Program
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The free connection policy has clearly shown its enormous impact on water supply coverage. A condition of connecting a premise to the water supply is that it must have a sanitation facility complying with local sanitation regulations. Residents are willing to install an approved sanitation facility so they can access the free connection to the piped system. Moreover, this policy has tremendously impacted sanitation coverage in the target communities.

Project Number: 34197-032, 34197-042
Project Name: Northern and Central Regions Water Supply and Sanitation Sector
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No additional lesson.

Project Number: 32313-012
Project Name: Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Health System Development Project
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To more directly facilitate agricultural development activities along rural roads being developed in future, consideration could be given to developing selected rural development schemes to directly support communities located along the rural roads.

Project Number: 30271-013
Project Name: Roads for Rural Development Project
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Executing agencies of future projects need to identify and replace nonperforming contractors at an early stage. Executing agencies also need to more carefully scrutinize the financial, management, and equipment capacities of bidders during bid evaluation.

Project Number: 30271-013
Project Name: Roads for Rural Development Project
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Include benefit monitoring evaluation capacity building and training with executing agencies at both national and provincial level. The difficulty of accurately assessing the full economic impact and poverty reduction benefits of this project because of the delay in conducting baseline benefit monitoring highlights the need to ensure the immediate commencement of baseline data measurement prior to civil works commencement.

Project Number: 30271-013
Project Name: Roads for Rural Development Project
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Advanced design and tender document readiness for civil works being prepared at appraisal allowed early civil works contracting and mobilization, ensuring appraisal loan completion dates can be achieved.

Project Number: 30271-013
Project Name: Roads for Rural Development Project
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No new lessons.

Project Number: 34188-013
Project Name: Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Northern Community-Managed Irrigation Sector Project
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No new lessons.

Project Number: 31352-013
Project Name: Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Small Towns Development Sector Project
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No new lessons.

Project Number: 31345-013
Project Name: Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Second Education Quality Improvement Project
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Governments and ADB should conduct a more detailed review of the studies to confirm soundness of assumptions and results. The pre-feasibility study that prepared the project design and appraised the viability of the subprojects had quality issues, given that two airport projects in Cambodia were cancelled due to poor market viability, the airport project in the Lao PDR had to be redesigned due to the need to expand scope, the site for the wastewater treatment plant in Siem Reap was not firmed up and substantial time was wasted looking for an alternative site, and others.

Project Number: 35282-013, 33434-013, 35345-013
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion: Mekong Tourism Development Project
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If success is likely at the midpoint of a technical assistance (TA), planning for follow-on support should then be undertaken. The outcome of the program could have been stronger with follow-on TA, particularly in the case of the Catalyzing Microfinance for the Poor TA. Feedback from a range of microfinance providers and stakeholders confirmed the need for follow-on support.

Project Number: 33357-013
Project Name: Rural Finance Sector Development Program
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Participation in regional dialogues and other knowledge management activities has, through learning and sharing, made national and provincial communicable diseases control leaders more competent, cooperative, and competitive. However, participation in internet-based learning and sharing is still at a nascent stage.

Project Number: 36672-012, 37604-022, 38017-012
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion Regional Communicable Diseases Control Project
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The reason why the program was not rated highly successful is because, despite the fact that the overall objectives were achieved (as defined in the design and monitoring framework), the linkage of the program to ultimately reducing poverty is weak. There was no substantial increase in access to formal financial services to rural, low-income clients.

Project Number: 33357-013
Project Name: Rural Finance Sector Development Program
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The ministries have a strong tradition of top-down training programs to be implemented by the provinces, often in an ad hoc manner. Provincial capacity to plan and coordinate training activities is insufficient. Provinces also lack core capacities in teaching methodology and in monitoring staff performance.

Project Number: 36672-012, 37604-022, 38017-012
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion Regional Communicable Diseases Control Project
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