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The selection of capable nongovernment organizations (NGOs) was critical to ensuring effective delivery of services and for sustaining project activities.

Project Number: 32193-013
Project Name: Northwest Crop Diversification Project
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Post-project monitoring and evaluation systems need to be designed for the project during the planning phase to ensure ongoing innovation and sustainability of the project impacts.

Project Number: 32193-013
Project Name: Northwest Crop Diversification Project
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All project components should have been based on need assessment. This was particularly true of the activities for agribusiness credit piloting and infrastructure for marketing and the facilities at the horticulture training and demonstration centers (HTDCs). Failure to assess needs and conditions for these components adequately meant that the outputs were not used fully or successfully.

Project Number: 32193-013
Project Name: Northwest Crop Diversification Project
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To ensure that the markets to be built under the project would be successful, the project needed to seek the participation and take into account the opinions of local stakeholders when selecting the sites for market construction.

Project Number: 32193-013
Project Name: Northwest Crop Diversification Project
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The issues of land ownership and operational responsibilities needed to be clearly settled between public ministries and departments before the project embarked on market construction. This was particularly important for revenue-earning infrastructure like markets. More time than was envisaged at appraisal was needed to form output-oriented farmers' marketing groups (FMGs) and to put them into operation.

Project Number: 32193-013
Project Name: Northwest Crop Diversification Project
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Project delays could have been reduced significantly by identifying and deploying qualified staff during project preparation, keeping those staff throughout implementation, obtaining early government approval for the project, and taking advance action on the recruitment of consultants before the loan agreement was signed.

Project Number: 32193-013
Project Name: Northwest Crop Diversification Project
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Compliance with the repor and recommendation of the president (RRP) recruitments. The requirements for goods and services as incorporated in the RRP and loan agreement need to be strictly followed while preparing the technical assistance project proposal (TPP) to ensure smooth TA implementation. Due to misunderstandings by the executing agency, the TPP prepared by the government was not able to meet the requirements; causing two problems.

Project Number: 35225-013
Project Name: Small and Medium Enterprise Sector Development Program
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Proper sequencing and program readiness. Proper sequencing of program activities is essential to ensure success. In the case of the Small and Medium Enterprise Sector Development Program (SMESDP), gaps in program readiness led to delays in its implementation. As discussed in para. 8, adoption of a two-step approach would have been more appropriate; first, the technical assistance (TA) loan to prepare the outputs needed and recommendations for implementation, followed by a second step of putting the SMESDP in place to implement the recommendations of the TA loan.

Project Number: 35225-013
Project Name: Small and Medium Enterprise Sector Development Program
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