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No additional lesson.

Project Number: 38236-022
Project Name: Dushanbe–Kyrgyz Border Road Rehabilitation Project, Phase II
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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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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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Lesson
Where there is capacity to coordinate directly and where the executing and implementing agencies are the same, such as in this project, a project steering committee may not be necessary.

Project Number: 37644-013
Project Name: Regional Customs Modernization and Infrastructure Development Project
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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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Lesson
Regular monitoring, reappraisal, and redesign are often critical for project success and need to be built meaningfully into ADB’s project management processes. This project would have been considerably more successful if ADB had monitored and supported it more intensely.

Project Number: 33042-013
Project Name: Irrigation Rehabilitation Project
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No new lessons.

Project Number: 37175-013
Project Name: Education Sector Reform Project
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The loan and grant were approved together, and the information and education campaign (IEC) activities under the grant were extended to people engaged in civil works financed by the loan. The IEC activities were managed by the health officials trained through the HIV/AIDS and Mitigation Program. Such synergetic (cross-sector) approaches may be applied to future transport projects, considering the worldwide HIV/AIDS prevalence.

Project Number: 38236-022
Project Name: Dushanbe - Kyrgyz Border Road Rehabilitation Project, Phase II
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Because the project road is now in better condition, vehicles travel faster than before. Existing road safety facilities are insufficient to minimize accidents. Future projects must include a road safety component to ensure that comprehensive road safety arrangements are in place, instead of relying on existing, insufficient facilities.

Project Number: 38236-022
Project Name: Dushanbe - Kyrgyz Border Road Rehabilitation Project, Phase II
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More robust due diligence is needed during project design and formulation to enable the closest possible cost estimates and to set aside enough resources to cover contingencies. This can result in considerable time savings. The values of the works contracts were significantly higher than originally estimated. Further, the amounts had to be increased during implementation because of an unprecedented increase in material costs, besides the extra earthwork needed.

Project Number: 38236-022
Project Name: Dushanbe - Kyrgyz Border Road Rehabilitation Project, Phase II
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Lesson
A properly designed project can minimize the risk of changes in quantities and scope during implementation and can contribute to timely completion within budget. For this project, the geological nature and conditions were complex and fragile and no detailed study was carried out at appraisal. This caused several changes in the estimation of earthwork needed during implementation and made detailed geological studies in the middle of the process necessary. The entire project design and financing plans were affected.

Project Number: 38236-022
Project Name: Dushanbe - Kyrgyz Border Road Rehabilitation Project, Phase II
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ADB’s having frequent review missions at the initial stage, active participation in technical discussions, and prompt action on project requests, were critical factors in ensuring that the project remained responsive to recurrent and emerging needs and that implementation was on track with the project timelines.

Project Number: 33036-013
Project Name: Health Sector Reform Project
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Installation of project management at a very high level with the President’s office as executing agency and the deputy prime minister as project coordinator facilitated the success of the project. With such high level management support, the adoption of key policy recommendations and implementation of essential reform packages had a much better chance of being acted upon more quickly than if it were anchored on a weak ministry that still needed reform and strengthening.

Project Number: 33036-013
Project Name: Health Sector Reform Project
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Infrastructure rehabilitation projects dispersed over a broad geographic area are harder to implement and have higher administrative burdens and management costs than more regionally concentrated projects.

Project Number: 33042-013
Project Name: Irrigation Rehabilitation Project
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