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An extensive vocational education and training (TVET) database is essential for improved planning and evidence-based decisions.

Project Number: 38176-015
Project Name: Skills Development Project
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Farmers, particularly women farmers, found it more convenient to access loans through the community-based saving and credit schemes, which offered low interest rates. The MFIs did not generate enthusiasm in farmers because of the higher interest rates and the insufficient effort put in to convincing them of the benefits of microfinance

Project Number: 38417-022
Project Name: Community Irrigation Project
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Third-party monitoring and evaluation (M&E) and fiduciary reviews will improve the performance of service providers and training quality and outcomes.

Project Number: 38176-015
Project Name: Skills Development Project
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Any new system for raising irrigation service fees (ISF) should harmonize with traditional practice. This and incentives to increase farmers’ willingness to pay ISF will help to sustain the system. The fragile geology of Nepal makes local infrastructure vulnerable to seasonal damage caused by floods and landslides. Collection of ISF by farmers is important to keep funds ready for emergency repairs. Farmers traditionally contributed in cash, kind, and labor for system maintenance.

Project Number: 38417-022
Project Name: Community Irrigation Project
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Provision of transitional, pre-employment support services will enhance the effectiveness of the whole-cycle approach to skills development.

Project Number: 38176-015
Project Name: Skills Development Project
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Establishing an efficient institutional network for sharing information, fostering inter-governmental cooperation, and enabling the central government to provide technical support to the provincial and local bodies will be necessary under the new federal system for successful implementation of projects. Interagency coordination for efficient project implementation remains a challenge in Nepal.

Project Number: 38417-022
Project Name: Community Irrigation 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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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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Tackling GBV requires increased efforts to empower women, the institutionalization of GBV government services, and strong partnership and coordination between public institutions and civil society networks

Project Number: 38097-012
Project Name: Establishing Women and Children Service Centers
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Innovative approaches are needed to increase GBV awareness and access to support services of women in remote places.

Project Number: 38097-012
Project Name: Establishing Women and Children Service Centers
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Cultural and behavioral change is imperative in eliminating gender-based violence (GBV).

Project Number: 38097-012
Project Name: Establishing Women and Children Service Centers
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Actual costs, and to the extent possible, actual benefit measures should be included in the economic reevaluation.

Project Number: 44143-013
Project Name: Subregional Transport Enhancement Project
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The DMF should be clearer where performance targets and indicators are only in part influenced by the project.

Project Number: 44143-013
Project Name: Subregional Transport Enhancement Project
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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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Adequate reporting of the results of EIRR sensitivity tests should be included in the project completion report.

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