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Project Number: 31381-013
Project Name: Protected Area Management and Wildlife Conservation Project
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Project Number: 31287-013
Project Name: Coastal Resource Management Project
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Inclusion of an innovative process monitoring system enabled the correction of processes during implementation. This was especially important given the volatile and uncertain security conditions. Process monitoring helped in assessing the work of nongovernment organizations and modifying village planning, livelihood enterprise development services, and microfinance processes. [Main text, para. 68]

Project Number: 33249-013
Project Name: North East Coastal Community Development Project
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Channeling credit through community organizations rather than individuals could reduce defaults through peer group pressure and lower administration costs. Credit lending terms should be consistent with the prevailing local microfinance conditions. [Main text, para. 67]

Project Number: 33249-013
Project Name: North East Coastal Community Development Project
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No legal precedents for the special area management planning safeguards existed and no single agency was empowered to handle legal aspects of coastal resource planning. Implementation of coastal planning needed better interagency coordination and the Coast Conservation Department should have been included in the design as the implementing agency for component C to give a greater sense of ownership. [Main text, para. 66]

Project Number: 33249-013
Project Name: North East Coastal Community Development Project
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Providing initial training for the government field staff, which had been weakened by the civil conflict, would have helped implementation. The capacities of the implementing partner nongovernment organizations were overestimated at the design stage and the project management unit spent a lot of time on guidance and training. [Main text, para. 65]

Project Number: 33249-013
Project Name: North East Coastal Community Development Project
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The Gender Action Plan (GAP) provided a framework for gender-balanced activities but a project management unit gender specialist should have been included in the project design to manage the plan. Implementing the GAP separately through the rural development societies and the women's rural development societies gave women space for involvement but reduced opportunities for fully gender-balanced operations. [Main text, para. 64]

Project Number: 33249-013
Project Name: North East Coastal Community Development Project
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A strong project management unit with qualified staff under a competent project director who remained throughout the project enabled implementation despite disruption from a tsunami and renewed conflict. [Main text, para. 63]

Project Number: 33249-013
Project Name: North East Coastal Community Development Project
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