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The water supply requirements of toilets need to be considered in the design of post-disaster school rehabilitation or construction projects.

Project Number: 49215-001
Project Name: Earthquake Emergency Assistance Project
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Gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) results, most likely achievable when informed by baseline data, add value to successful post-disaster rehabilitation.

Project Number: 49215-001
Project Name: Earthquake Emergency Assistance Project
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Effectively coordinating ADB assistance with other donors opens opportunities for increasing coverage, sharing lessons, and enhancing the impact of post-disaster rehabilitation.

Project Number: 49215-001
Project Name: Earthquake Emergency Assistance Project
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A more balanced approach to immediately rehabilitate severely damaged road sections while improving the disaster resilience of the road network will make post-disaster road rehabilitation projects most beneficial for the disaster-stricken communities.

Project Number: 49215-001
Project Name: Earthquake Emergency Assistance Project
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Constructing earthquake-resilient schools in remote areas requires innovation and the use of locally available materials.

Project Number: 49215-001
Project Name: Earthquake Emergency Assistance Project
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In future, project design consultant’s scope of work should include assessment of background and technical information for underground existing utilities. The project had initial design delays and design modifications during implementation mainly due to unavailability of existing utilities’ underground information such as by plan profile and as-built drawing. Final DSC designs were not always comprehensive. This required variations for most contracts, resulting in both start-up delays and contract modifications.

Project Number: 42161-013
Project Name: Integrated Urban Development Project
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The country’s restructuring affected GESI institutional structure adopted through GESI operational guidelines and requires revision of GESI operational guideline to align with federal structure. Although MOUD has instituted GESI operationally, other structures do not exist after restructuring of MOUD and its department to align with the country’s new federal structure.

Project Number: 42161-013
Project Name: Integrated Urban Development Project
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Financial management staff’s inclusion in review missions will be key to ensuring improved financial performance of future projects. Neither the ADB project team nor PCO could decipher financial management requirements and covenant quantifications due to the absence of financial management staff in review missions. The team failed to follow up on audit opinions and recurrent issues, leading to recurrence of the same issues and delays in submitting the APFS. This improved only after inclusion of a financial management staff toward the end of the project.

Project Number: 42161-013
Project Name: Integrated Urban Development Project
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Continuous community consultation, benefit sharing, and interagency coordination are vital to create social acceptance for SLS construction. The Nepalgunj SLS construction was successful due to continuous community engagement, cooperation among political leaders, and early implementation of a community development program targeted to community living near the SLS. The SLSs in Janakpur and Siddharthanagar had to be dropped, however, as nearby communities did not allow their construction.

Project Number: 42161-013
Project Name: Integrated Urban Development Project
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