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Women's Market Section (WMS). The project made an effort to include WMSs in all market developments to bring women more into the mainstream of the rural economy. However, women in some areas are conservative and not willing to run shops side-by-side with men. WMSs should only be included in market developments where project appraisal indicates that women are interested and available to participate in running the facilities; otherwise, the resources can be used elsewhere.

Project Number: 31304-013
Project Name: Rural Infrastructure Improvement Project
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Drinking Water in Market Developments. The project has installed on a pilot basis a low-cost piped water supply system for drinking purposes at Haibatpur Growth Center in Jessore district, which is an arsenic-affected area. A water management committee within the market management committee (MMC) is managing the operation and maintenance of the system, and collects user fees. This approach to the supply of low-cost water in a growth center market (GCM) has proven to be feasible and may be replicated in future projects, while taking its shortcomings into account.

Project Number: 31304-013
Project Name: Rural Infrastructure Improvement Project
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Subproject Appraisal Reports. Since SARs were prepared for each upazila, 96 SARs were produced. This was a huge and time consuming task that took almost two years to complete. It is recommended that future projects should produce SARs on the basis of districts or regions rather than upazila. This concept would have reduced the number of reports to 16 if prepared on a district basis or 2 if prepared on a regional basis.

Project Number: 31304-013
Project Name: Rural Infrastructure Improvement Project
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Need to avoid including conditions in loans that depend on passing or amending legislation, or seeking high-level approval, such as from the Cabinet. This was the case in the RMC component that sought annual allocations in the budget for road maintenance. Projects that require legal or high-level administrative changes often experience major delays or fail to meet their objectives.

Project Number: 33243-013
Project Name: Road Maintenance and Improvement Project
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Caution is in order in concurring with major changes in project scope. The scope for Part C of the project changed from initiating preparatory work for launching a training and management institute at the Rural Electrification Board - to physically constructing the institute. Its implementation though has suffered from price escalation, scarcity of construction materials, and internal disputes among partners in the contractor's consortium.

Project Number: 28025-013
Project Name: Dhaka Power System Upgrade Project
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ADB needs to pay more attention to capacity assessment during inception. The executing agencies had insufficient capacity to carry out procurement, bid evaluation and other processes, resulting in significant delays. This capacity deficit within the executing agencies was not identified during inception. [Main text, paras. 39,45,62]

Project Number: 28025-013
Project Name: Dhaka Power System Upgrade Project
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