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The project showed commendable flexibility in implementing new activities (e.g., establishing veterinary centers) in response to beneficiary needs. As a result, the project has strong community support and ownership (e.g., infrastructure, veterinary centers, PUSs [pasture user societies]). This should ensure sustainability.

Project Number: 37530-013
Project Name: Rural Development Project
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The project benefited from involving women in the planning process of infrastructure projects. There was strong community ownership; the structures targeted community needs; and in many cases women led the operation and maintenance of structures. This contributes strongly to the investment's long-term sustainability.

Project Number: 37530-013
Project Name: Rural Development Project
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Project design. The holistic flood risk management approach that combines physical, non-physical, and legal measures (as distinct from previous reactive infrastructure-oriented flood control measures) was quite effective in helping people address flood risks. Second, the specially designed spurs have been effective in stimulating sedimentation, with natural vegetation, inside the river channel, which could augment rehabilitated embankments for effective flood protection, and would reduce O&M (operation and maintenance) requirement.

Project Number: 40046-013
Project Name: Khatlon Province Flood Risk Management Project
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Implementation arrangements. While foreign contractors were not attracted to the ICB (international competitive bidding) packages because of the location and limited time available to complete the rehabilitation works, national contractors were able to undertake civil work with a contract value of $1.5 million. Second, there was a high project administration burden associated with the large number of civil works contracts (there were 28 civil works contracts awarded through either NCB [national competitive bidding] or ICB, with an average contract amount of $0.7 million).

Project Number: 40046-013
Project Name: Khatlon Province Flood Risk Management Project
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The adequacy and appropriateness of project design have to be tailored to the project’s ultimate objectives and complexities. The PCR provided weak justification of the relevance of the extension and the insufficiency of indicators.

Project Number: 39662-012, 39662-022
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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No new lessons

Project Number: 38603-013
Project Name: Sustainable Cotton Subsector Project
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Mechanisms for sustaining support services for dehkan farms should have been incorporated in the project design. Agricultural support provided to dehkan farms was limited to the duration of the project. No mechanisms were put in place to ensure sustainability of benefits beyond the project’s life. The activities of demonstrations farms were very helpful to dehkan farms in increasing productivity, but these were stopped after project completion. Further, most of these demonstration farms were distributed to individual and family dehkan farms after completion of the project.

Project Number: 32494-023
Project Name: Agriculture Rehabilitation Project
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A monitoring and evaluation system needs to be permanently established within the Ministry of Water Resources and Land Reclamation. While it was established as part of project management, M&E was discontinued after the PMO closed. Hence, project specific data cannot be provided for evaluating long-term outcomes, impact, and poverty reduction.

Project Number: 32494-023
Project Name: Agriculture Rehabilitation Project
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The phasing of cost recovery and measures to ensure sustainable operation and maintenance of tertiary systems should have been identified at the outset. Transferring management of tertiary irrigation and drainage systems to beneficiaries as a means for participatory water management was appropriate and in line with IWRM principles. However, the phasing of cost recovery and measures needed for WUAs to become sustainable should have been made clear at the outset. Measures for achieving full cost recovery should have been identified early in the implementation process.

Project Number: 32494-023
Project Name: Agriculture Rehabilitation Project
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ADB's high-level steering committee demonstrated ADB's institutional support, which enhanced coordination between development partners. The committee, comprising the heads of all regional departments and the Strategy and Policy Department and chaired by the director general of RSDD, provided prompt policy guidance and expedited decisions and actions. It also ensured that the needs of the countries were ascertained and that they had adequate access to project resources.

Project Number: 39662-012
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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ADB was able to use its convening power effectively because it had the necessary in-house technical expertise. Public health experts on ADB's staff with knowledge of emerging infectious diseases were involved in designing and implementing the project. This in-house expertise made the dialogue with the technical and regional agencies to strengthen regional collaboration within and across the animal health and human health sectors possible.

Project Number: 39662-012
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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More detailed understanding of legal requirements for and better supervision of arrangements for the establishment and operation of project-financed assets by private- sector entities is necessary to remove the risk that such assets may not operate effectively or operate in ways not intended._x005F_x000D__x005F_x000D_Expecting farmer organizations to want to operate such facilities as seed cleaning plants, as the proposal of the major change in scope and implementation arrangements did, was overly optimistic.

Project Number: 38603-013
Project Name: Sustainable Cotton Subsector Project
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Each new outbreak of disease confronts projects such as this one, as well as the implementing partners and global community, with a fresh challenge, because its early spread outpaces the gathering of scientific evidence needed to formulate containment policies. Each successive outbreak is followed by an initial opaque period characterized by a frustrating lack of scientific evidence on which to base policies and technical guidance.

Project Number: 39662-012
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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The rapid launch and accelerated implementation of the project made necessary by the threat that avian influenza would become a pandemic made it difficult to define verifiable indicators for a number of the outputs under the regional capacity building and regional coordination components. A mid-term review of the project would have facilitated a review and updating of the design and monitoring framework.

Project Number: 39662-012
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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The project supported the One Health concept, which emphasizes the links between animal health and human health and emerging animal and human diseases. One Health provided a platform for unprecedented integration of animal, human and ecosystem health issues to fight the threat of avian influenza. The systematic collaboration of technical agencies across disciplines, such as FAO (veterinarians) and WHO (medical doctors) and civil society organizations (community health workers) supported by the project has promoted this concept since the beginning of the project.

Project Number: 39662-012
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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