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The government needs to institutionalize a safeguard system within the organizational framework of the project, particularly during implementation, for effective monitoring and supervision of and timely compliance with safeguard covenants.

Project Number: 37027-013
Project Name: Subregional Transport Facilitation Project
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There were some difficulties in contract administration between Department of Customs (DOC) and United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Although the contract for automatic system of customs data (ASYCUDA) was signed between Department of Roads (DOR) and UNCTAD, DOC was the main agency to supervise UNCTAD's work. DOC felt that it was less effective in the UNCTAD contract implementation because it was not a party to the contract. Contract provisions should have clearly stated the role, responsibilities, and implementation arrangements of DOC.

Project Number: 37027-013
Project Name: Subregional Transport Facilitation Project
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The government needs to review and include interim milestone dates in the contract documents to ensure timely work completion and avoid extensions.

Project Number: 37027-013
Project Name: Subregional Transport Facilitation Project
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The absence of international joint venture partners in the implementation of international competitive bidding (ICB) contracts awarded to them was observed during project implementation. To ensure involvement of all joint venture partners in contract administration, it would be necessary for each individual joint venture partner to issue a guarantee against the collateral for their individual and joint liability. Issuance of individual and joint liability along with a performance bond would ensure liability for the work among all joint venture partners.

Project Number: 37027-013
Project Name: Subregional Transport Facilitation Project
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Developing an indicator to measure quality improvements during the life of the project could have assisted in focusing the quality improvement interventions. A national assessment of student achievement using international standards is part of the school sector reform program. Grades 3, 5, and 8 will be assessed.

Project Number: 34022-013
Project Name: Secondary Education Support Project
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In the case of pool funding, efforts should be made to continue collaboration until the end, including a joint evaluation, to identify joint lessons and to maximize use of resources.

Project Number: 34022-013
Project Name: Secondary Education Support Project
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Deliberately designing stakeholder participation and public debates on education policy reforms could have benefited implementation. The lack of broader stakeholder participation, particularly in the districts, risks losing ownership by implementing agencies.

Project Number: 34022-013
Project Name: Secondary Education Support Project
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The dependence of reforms on proposed legal provisions should be analyzed. Both the development of the national curriculum framework and the decentralization of education could not be implemented fully because the legal provisions were not in place.

Project Number: 34022-013
Project Name: Secondary Education Support Project
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Benchmarking education quality reforms with international and regional best practices, is important and could have contributed to strengthened reforms.

Project Number: 34022-013
Project Name: Secondary Education Support Project
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Design flexibility, accommodating changes for better alignment with emerging development objectives, improved implementation and contributed to reaching the desired results. Clear and precise documentation regarding when and what changed, and how the project goal, outcomes, and output were revised and embedded in new modalities, should be a critical element of this mind set.

Project Number: 34022-013
Project Name: Secondary Education Support Project
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The Rural Microfinance Development Center (RMDC)-supported microfinance institutions (MFIs) were successful in delivering loans and ensuring timely repayment in areas with enough opportunities to earn daily wages. However, for areas without such opportunities, farmer cooperatives should be developed to deliver loans. These cooperatives have low overheads and function even in adverse geographic and political conditions because of their community ownership.

Project Number: 35170-013
Project Name: Community Livestock Development Project
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Effective implementation of laws and regulations on operation of slaughterhouses coupled with a consumer awareness program are essential to improve hygienic meat processing and marketing, and optimize benefits from project support.

Project Number: 35170-013
Project Name: Community Livestock Development Project
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Public-private partnership is an effective approach to promote private sector participation in the livestock subsector. This has been demonstrated by the successful operation of project-assisted meat and dairy shops, abattoirs, paravets, and veterinarians.

Project Number: 35170-013
Project Name: Community Livestock Development Project
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Privatization of public sector enterprises is not sufficient to achieve growth in the dairy industry. Strong links with milk-producing farmers and cooperatives are needed to ensure uninterrupted milk supplies to milk processors, achieve full capacity, and maximize investment benefits.

Project Number: 35170-013
Project Name: Community Livestock Development Project
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Poverty mapping was a useful tool to determine the beneficiaries and suitable ways to involve them in project activities. However, to include women and the disadvantaged in commercial processing and marketing enterprises that require more resources and better skills, alternative approaches are needed, such as organizing skills training in their areas of interest, easing access to institutional loans on a group guarantee basis, and establishing links with marketing institutions.

Project Number: 35170-013
Project Name: Community Livestock Development Project
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