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Lesson
Project implementation highlights the importance of increased accountability and ownership by all stakeholders in achieving the project’s intended outcome. This, along with a well-designed capacity building intervention for implementing agencies, would help facilitate timely implementation and achievement of project results. Complex projects with many components and a wide geographical coverage require a high level of government commitment and ownership.

Project Number: 37749-013
Project Name: Agrarian Reform Communities Project II
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Ensuring that an acceptable cost-sharing arrangement is in place at the outset, prior to project launch, can help minimize project risks. The rural infrastructure component comprising 80% of total actual project cost was not achieved largely as the LGUs were unable to raise the required counterpart contributions. Moreover, it is essential that appropriate due diligence and risk assessment are undertaken and that risk mitigation measures concerning the financial capability of participating local governments are identified at the outset.

Project Number: 37749-013
Project Name: Agrarian Reform Communities Project II
Report Date:
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Partnership with other government agencies, civil society, and the private sector augments project resources and ability to achieve results.

Project Number: 37749-013
Project Name: Agrarian Reform Communities Project II
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Consistent guidance and support from ADB are necessary to ensure effective project monitoring and evaluation.

Project Number: 37749-013
Project Name: Agrarian Reform Communities Project II
Report Date:
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Capacity building of farming communities requires not just training but also the provision of agricultural inputs to encourage their adoption of high-yielding agricultural practices and technologies.

Project Number: 37749-013
Project Name: Agrarian Reform Communities Project II
Report Date:
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Inadequate or inappropriate government counterpart funding arrangements can impede project implementation, making it important for ADB to address this risk through thorough due diligence.

Project Number: 37749-013
Project Name: Agrarian Reform Communities Project II
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Agrarian reform and poverty reduction are complex development goals requiring carefully designed multisectoral interventions.

Project Number: 37749-013
Project Name: Agrarian Reform Communities Project II
Report Date:
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Project staff training and engagement of full-time, qualified specialists throughout the project period are important to ensure project compliance to ADB safeguard requirements.

Project Number: 37749-013
Project Name: Agrarian Reform Communities Project II
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No new lessons.

Project Number: 27245-013
Project Name: Southern Philippines Irrigation Sector Project
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Further capacity building must be undertaken in procurement and bid evaluation if provincial and regional procurement is to be continued in similar future projects. While there is a certain autonomy in regional centers, the central government and ADB should adopt a stronger procurement monitoring role, if only to prevent repetition of previous mistakes.

Project Number: 27245-013
Project Name: Southern Philippines Irrigation Sector Project
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The role of local government units must be understood, given their limited resources and their primary function as a political institution. While they remain an important inclusion from a lobbying perspective, they cannot adopt roles beyond the level for which they have human and financial resource capacity.

Project Number: 27245-013
Project Name: Southern Philippines Irrigation Sector Project
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Quality subproject feasibility and detailed engineering designs, based on solid geological and topographic surveys, are necessary prerequisites to successful irrigation and road subprojects. Without these, unachievable targets will be established that cause subprojects to be assessed less successful.

Project Number: 27245-013
Project Name: Southern Philippines Irrigation Sector Project
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Beneficiary contributions must be set at a level that reflects their capacity to pay, and it is considered inappropriate to overload farmers with higher costs where poverty remains an issue.

Project Number: 27245-013
Project Name: Southern Philippines Irrigation Sector Project
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Lesson
Stronger links with technical support and input supplies such as credit should be part of the training of irrigator associations during subproject implementation. While attempts at coordinating technical support were envisaged, much of this came down to personal relationships, and that varied widely between subprojects.

Project Number: 27245-013
Project Name: Southern Philippines Irrigation Sector Project
Report Date:
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Participation of beneficiaries at an early stage of subproject preparation will enhance the chance of success where beneficiaries are to assume control of operation and maintenance (O&M).

Project Number: 27245-013
Project Name: Southern Philippines Irrigation Sector Project
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