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Private health providers can play an important role when developing a network of quality health services in rural and other underserved areas. The needs of private sector entities and small-scale health providers, however, are different. Easy access to credit by small-scale providers, in itself, is insufficient. Needs and constraints also should be addressed. This covers (i) technical support—referral networks, continuous training, and colleagues’ advice; and (ii) family support—access to schools for children, work opportunities for the spouse, safety, and other needs and constraints.

Project Number: 41664-013
Project Name: Credit for Better Health Care Project
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Lesson
The project was complex and involved many stakeholders (DBP, DOH and PHIC, LGUs, private sector venture, small-scale private providers, and local beneficiaries). A careful stakeholder analysis involving consultations with all participants to identify needs, constraints, and potential benefits could have improved the project design, its assumptions, and risk mitigation strategies.

Project Number: 41664-013
Project Name: Credit for Better Health Care Project
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Project ownership is important. With DBP, a financial institution as executing agency, DOH did not have primary responsibility for this health project. Inter-sector collaboration can bring significant benefits but is not easy: it requires significant efforts and a clear governance structure with specific reporting and coordination mechanisms. Leadership is essential and needs to be carefully established to ensure effectiveness and efficiency. The HSIAC should have been more actively involved and better coordinated the project.

Project Number: 41664-013
Project Name: Credit for Better Health Care Project
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A bigger role for midwives can enhance the performance of similar future projects in the Philippines.

Project Number: 41664-013
Project Name: Credit for Better Health Care Project
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Political support is crucial to the success of PPPs.

Project Number: 41664-013
Project Name: Credit for Better Health Care Project
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Local government units (LGUs) are important as facilitators of health projects but should not be overburdened with health care investments.

Project Number: 41664-013
Project Name: Credit for Better Health Care Project
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Private sector providers need motivation to expand their services in poor and remote areas and strive for better quality of care.

Project Number: 41664-013
Project Name: Credit for Better Health Care Project
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No new lessons

Project Number: 43396-013, 43396-014
Project Name: Increasing Competitiveness for Inclusive Growth Program (Subprograms 1 and 2)
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Adoption of rigorous impact evaluation was highly useful in assessing the impact of pilot program before successfully rolling out JobStart Philippines nationally.

Project Number: 43396-014, 43396-013
Project Name: Increasing Competitiveness for Inclusive Growth Program (Subprograms 1 and 2): Program Completion Report
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Experimenting new strategies with pilot projects is essential for proper understanding and building stakeholder support for potential policy reforms.

Project Number: 43396-014, 43396-013
Project Name: Increasing Competitiveness for Inclusive Growth Program (Subprograms 1 and 2): Program Completion Report
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Thorough understanding of the capacity and readiness of the executing and implementing agencies along with proper timing and sequencing are imperative for reform success.

Project Number: 43396-014, 43396-013
Project Name: Increasing Competitiveness for Inclusive Growth Program (Subprograms 1 and 2): Program Completion Report
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Policy-based programs can achieve better outcome through carefully sequenced high-impact crosscutting structural policy reforms along with a set of deeper sector-specific structural policy reforms.

Project Number: 43396-014, 43396-013
Project Name: Increasing Competitiveness for Inclusive Growth Program (Subprograms 1 and 2): Program Completion Report
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Continuous policy dialogues and developments are crucial for advancing and sustaining the implemented reforms. The program accomplished this through periodic policy reviews, timely policy dialogue, providing appropriate technical assistance, being responsive to the changes of macroeconomic circumstances and government priorities, and effective coordination with other development partners.

Project Number: 43396-014, 43396-013
Project Name: Increasing Competitiveness for Inclusive Growth Program (Subprograms 1 and 2): Program Completion Report
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Greater use of the post-program partnership framework can be highly instrumental in supporting the sustainability of reforms under the program.

Project Number: 43396-014, 43396-013
Project Name: Increasing Competitiveness for Inclusive Growth Program (Subprograms 1 and 2): Program Completion Report
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Reassessment and careful choice of independent marker operator. The government should look carefully again at the need for an independent market operator (IMO). As far as the evaluation could ascertain, use of the Philippine Electricity Market Corporation (PEMC), which is not an IMO, has had no obvious adverse repercussions to date. This finding suggests that it could be counterproductive to force the pace of change to establish the IMO that the Electric Power Industry Reform Act and project design called for, and the government undertook to create but did not.

Project Number: 36018-013
Project Name: Electricity Market and Transmission Development Project
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