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Continued capacity development training of local officials and WUAs during project management, including for safeguard issues, ensures sustainable O&M of irrigation infrastructure and improved agricultural practices.

Project Number: 38417-022
Project Name: Community Irrigation Project
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A better understanding of farmers' preferences and concerns ensures the feasibility of project targets.

Project Number: 38417-022
Project Name: Community Irrigation Project
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A timely change in scope responding to unexpected circumstances can ensure continued project relevance and smooth implementation.

Project Number: 38417-022
Project Name: Community Irrigation Project
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Community-driven projects benefit from comprehensive and inclusive stakeholder consultations.

Project Number: 38417-022
Project Name: Community Irrigation Project
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Although the use of quantitative and qualitative surveys were appropriate approaches to determine whether the project was meeting its performance targets, any subsequent summary report using the survey results could indicate whether there were any limitations to the survey techniques that influenced the findings.

Project Number: 38097-012
Project Name: Establishing Women and Children Service Centers
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Changes made to the DMF and the risk assessment and the risk management plan was a good practice indicating that the risks at the expanded phase had been reassessed with insights from the pilot project.

Project Number: 38097-012
Project Name: Establishing Women and Children Service Centers
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A project needs to define road needs for a longer time frame and to construct roads to a suitable grade at the outset as it is more efficient and cost-effective than having to upgrade later.

Project Number: 38426-023, 30232-013
Project Name: Decentralized Rural Infrastructure and Livelihood Project
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ADB project departments and resident missions need to ensure that implementation issues are identified and corrected early on rather than waiting for the midterm review (MTR)

Project Number: 38426-023, 30232-013
Project Name: Decentralized Rural Infrastructure and Livelihood Project
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A phased approach to project design is useful if it is a complex, large project.

Project Number: 38426-023, 30232-013
Project Name: Decentralized Rural Infrastructure and Livelihood Project
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A methodological lesson is that, in multiphase projects, it is good to prepare cost tables by expenditure category (i.e., civil works) to learn how future projects need to plan their estimates.

Project Number: 38426-023, 30232-013
Project Name: Decentralized Rural Infrastructure and Livelihood Project
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With lack of progress on sludge and wastewater management a significant shortcoming of the project, the government could draw on global best practice for city-side inclusive sanitation to develop and pilot a fecal sludge management program that could be integrated with agriculture development.

Project Number: 41022-022
Project Name: Second Small Towns Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project
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The WUSCs are highly effective institutions for engendering strong community commitment to and ownership of WSS services and they appear to be able to administer the financial and revenue collection aspects of WSS system operation; the next project could explore the potential for a more corporatized WUSC model for towns with a population of more than 100,000, and options for contracting out the technical aspects of operation and maintenance of both water supply and wastewater management infrastructure;

Project Number: 41022-022
Project Name: Second Small Towns Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project
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Consultation with service agencies during project design stage is best, as their hands-on experience and knowledge of the sector would enhance project availability and allow them to align with the proposed project.

Project Number: 40054-013
Project Name: South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation Information Highway
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Multilateral and bilateral agreement would be more helpful if undertaken before loan approval as it would indicate buy-in and commitment by participating countries.

Project Number: 40054-013
Project Name: South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation Information Highway
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Gender impact assessment should include the number of women engaged within the project implementing agencies during project implementation and operation, and not only limited to impacts within the project area

Project Number: 44143-013
Project Name: Subregional Transport Enhancement Project
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