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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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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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Establishment and institution of a strong monitoring and evaluation and teacher support mechanism at the classroom level was necessary at the beginning of the project to continuously oversee the teaching-learning processes and provide professional support to the teachers to use the knowledge, skills, and attitudinal changes gained during training.

Project Number: 32236-013
Project Name: Teacher Education Project
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Although the public-private participation approach is an efficient way to implement project activities, the effectiveness will largely depend on close follow-up monitoring and strict adherence to the selection criteria. The in-service training provided by alternative training providers was ranked low as compared to the training provided by primary teacher training centers (PTTCs) and secondary education development units.

Project Number: 32236-013
Project Name: Teacher Education Project
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The absence of motivation and incentives for teachers and an effective mechanism for monitoring teachers' classroom performance emerged as major reasons for the overall improvement in the classroom teaching-learning process.

Project Number: 32236-013
Project Name: Teacher Education Project
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It is difficult to implement reform measures in a country during periods of political transition, as vested interest groups actively protect their interests.

Project Number: 32236-013
Project Name: Teacher Education Project
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Since the National Center for Education Development (NCED) as a regular department rather than a separate project implementing unit within the NCED was involved in project implementation, there was strong ownership and coordination among stakeholders, which facilitated implementation of the project.

Project Number: 32236-013
Project Name: Teacher Education Project
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The design and monitoring framework of the project had weak linkages among impact, outcome, and output indicators. Improvement in the overall quality and efficiency of primary education depends on many factors apart from teacher training. The outcome and output indicators were repeated.

Project Number: 32236-013
Project Name: Teacher Education Project
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Available evidence on using resource centers for extending professional support and services to the teachers shows it has not been very effective. The current structure of the resource centers needs to be reconceptualized with increased capacity under the School Sector Reform Program.

Project Number: 32236-013
Project Name: Teacher Education Project
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Even though the Higher Secondary Education Board (HSEB) and Faculty of Education are now taking responsibility for pre- service teacher training, there is still a need to financially support them in developing their capacity to deliver pre-service teacher training.

Project Number: 32236-013
Project Name: Teacher Education Project
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The project was implemented during the conflict period (2001-2006) and it faced challenges from local communities, which made additional demands and at times disrupted the work progress. Part A could not be completed as it was highly affected by unrest in Terai. A proper analysis of road design and selection of road sections should be carried out during the design phase to ensure timely completion of the selected road sections is possible.

Project Number: 29472-013
Project Name: Road Network Development Project
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A few civil works contracts could not be completed even after extending the loan closing date by 18 months. The timeframe, working season, and site analysis should be considered prior to award of contract to ensure timely completion of the contracts.

Project Number: 29472-013
Project Name: Road Network Development Project
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