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The integrated approach to disaster recovery operations beyond infrastructure restoration to also include activities directed at restoring livelihood and improving the resilience of infrastructure and economic activity to disasters.

Project Number: 39631-013
Project Name: Earthquake Emergency Assistance Project
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The design and implementation of the cluster program shows that it was too ambitious in its scope, and that depth of program engagement is more important than breadth of reforms. Improving the overall efficiency of the government is a complex undertaking. It requires major changes in existing institutional arrangements, human resource capacity, and legal and regulatory frameworks.

Project Number: 41666-013
Project Name: Punjab Government Efficiency Improvement Program
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Most of the benefits associated with the reforms supported under the cluster program were conditional on the final reforms to be supported under a subprogram 3, which never eventuated. To the extent that this caused reform momentum to be lost or take a risky direction, this approach risked delaying (at a minimum) or wasting years of reform effort (TA, financial resources and government commitment).

Project Number: 41545-013, 41545-023
Project Name: Sindh Growth and Rural Revitalization Program
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Reform agendas chosen for program cluster support should be carefully selected during program design. Subprogram 1 had 25 policy conditions, while subprogram 2 had 38 policy conditions. The large number of implementing agencies and reform areas complicates program coordination. When reviewing the implementation of this cluster program, too often it seemed that quantity of policy actions was a substitute for the low number of consequent reforms that could be achieved within the indicative time-span.

Project Number: 41545-013, 41545-023
Project Name: Sindh Growth and Rural Revitalization Program
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The importance of reform momentum and of programmatic assistance for sustaining the momentum. However, the experience with some reforms in core policy areas 1 and 3 is a reminder that when sufficient political pressure is exerted, financial and technical capacity constraints can sometimes be overcome, even in the absence of programmatic support (as would have been provided through subprogram 3). This calls for greater effort during the design and implementation stages to assess the political and economic context, which can determine whether or not a reform effort will succeed.

Project Number: 41545-013, 41545-023
Project Name: Sindh Growth and Rural Revitalization Program
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