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The success of the women's rural development societies (WRDSs) involved in components B and H, and earlier in the North East Community Restoration and Development Project (NECORD) and NECCDEP (North East Coastal Community Development Project) projects, demonstrated that community-based organizations contribute to a sustainable mechanism for improving economic activities at the local community level while concurrently achieving aspects of the gender action plan by empowering women through increased income, confidence, and quality of life.

Project Number: 39144-013
Project Name: Tsunami-Affected Areas Rebuilding 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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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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A single sector approach aids simplicity and a project's effectiveness.

Project Number: 34318-013
Project Name: Aquatic Resource Development and Quality Improvement Project
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Credit line design needs to be based on studies of market demand.

Project Number: 34318-013
Project Name: Aquatic Resource Development and Quality Improvement Project
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Regular review and updating of the DMF would have aided monitoring and evaluation. A design and monitoring framework (DMF) needs to follow ADB's standard format yet be dynamic.

Project Number: 34318-013
Project Name: Aquatic Resource Development and Quality Improvement Project
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Longer lead times (up to 2 years) should be allowed for the complex legal and administrative processes required to amend Acts of Parliament. Similarly, completing major civil works within 1-1/2 years is unrealistic.

Project Number: 34318-013
Project Name: Aquatic Resource Development and Quality Improvement Project
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For this project, engaging and training in-house or contracted staff of the implementing agency for social mobilization was more sustainable than recruiting outside nongovernment organizations (NGOs).

Project Number: 34318-013
Project Name: Aquatic Resource Development and Quality Improvement Project
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The difficulty of enacting legislation in support of a project activity and within the time frame of a project is often underestimated.

Project Number: 30215-013
Project Name: Forest Resources Management Sector Project
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The strong project management office (PMO) with qualified staff and single project director effectively progressed the project, even if subsidiary implementing agencies lacked capacity. Key elements were seconding the implementing agency's staff, absorbing personnel contracted for the project to the PMO, and detaching the PMO from the executing agency's offices.

Project Number: 34318-013
Project Name: Aquatic Resource Development and Quality Improvement Project
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Given a profitable and properly regulated enterprise like culture-based fisheries, community-based organizations (CBOs) can be developed into sustainable, profitable businesses.

Project Number: 34318-013
Project Name: Aquatic Resource Development and Quality Improvement Project
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