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The development partner assistance was ambitious. Its timeliness and the volume of ADB's Comprehensive Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic (CPRO) financial assistance were well-received by the government. However, this led to a rushed design and inadequate attention to monitoring of implementation, particularly regarding existing capacities to collect gender-disaggregated data in the absence of any existing digital social security systems.

Project Number: 54243-001
Project Name: Health Expenditure and Livelihoods Support Program
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A comprehensive social welfare framework can greatly strengthen the impact of emergency response measures and programs that were intended to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the most vulnerable households. As intended, the program helped to successfully mitigate the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on citizens and businesses. It was aligned with ADB's Strategy 2030 and the Pacific Approach.

Project Number: 54243-001
Project Name: Health Expenditure and Livelihoods Support Program
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Policy implementation in the Pacific countries needs to be supported by adequate financing.

Project Number: 38183-013
Project Name: Power Sector Expansion Project
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Key sector agencies are in the best position to implement sector development programs/projects.

Project Number: 38183-013
Project Name: Power Sector Expansion Project
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A strong theory of change that articulates how learning is to improve is key.

Project Number: 36513-032
Project Name: Schoolnet and Community Access Project
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Technology is important but its use is dependent on, and not a substitute for, teachers using student-centered pedagogy.

Project Number: 36513-032
Project Name: Schoolnet and Community Access Project
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The name of a project, which could set expectations, has to be carefully thought out.

Project Number: 36513-032
Project Name: Schoolnet and Community Access Project
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Starting small and phasing activities is likely to deliver more sustainable results in improving learning outcomes through ICT.

Project Number: 36513-032
Project Name: Schoolnet and Community Access Project
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A focus on years 12 and 13 is too late to improve learning significantly.

Project Number: 36513-032
Project Name: Schoolnet and Community Access Project
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The Education Sector Plan is ambitious. Human capacity can easily be overloaded by attempting too many simultaneous reforms. Having fewer, but well-sequenced and phased priorities, is likely to have more impact.

Project Number: 34285-013
Project Name: Education Sector Project II
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The loss of much of the evaluative work and studies done under the Education Sector Project II (ESPII) when key staff departed leaving no document archive and the inability to provide quality data for the project completion report highlight the importance of institutionalizing a strong system for monitoring, evaluation, and learning.

Project Number: 34285-013
Project Name: Education Sector Project II
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The new curriculum provides a starting point for confident, capable teachers but is reportedly challenging for weak teachers. Developing the curriculum in the language the teachers use to plan and deliver their lessons (Samoan) would have lessened the risk of creating new vocabulary and provided a better base for weak teachers.

Project Number: 34285-013
Project Name: Education Sector Project II
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Although capacity has been developed (though not always retained) at an individual level, the benefits are less evident within MESC or more broadly. Capacity development could have been greater had MESC capacity been thoroughly assessed during design or had design fully considered the absorptive capacity of a small ministry. High staff turnover at the management level also contributed to challenges in building capacity.

Project Number: 34285-013
Project Name: Education Sector Project II
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Greater flexibility in design and adherence to targets might have enabled more discussion and better communication and decision making within an ambitious time frame, especially during the first year. The design and monitoring framework (DMF) could have been revised early on, reducing the pressure on the Ministry of Education, Sport, and Culture (MESC) and alleviating the sense that they were not achieving results.

Project Number: 34285-013
Project Name: Education Sector Project II
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All Pacific developing member countries, including Samoa, experience great difficulty implementing long-term structural adjustment policies. While demand-side, short-term price stabilization policies may be more readily implemented, longer-term changes to land tenure and state-owned enterprises and efforts to liberalize trade and investment regimes confront a very difficult political economy environment in the Pacific islands. Governments are comfortable with short-term price reforms that pose less of a challenge to the political economy.

Project Number: 43191-013, 43191-023
Project Name: Economic Recovery Support Program - Subprograms 1 and 2
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