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Lesson
The cancellation of the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation funds and the delayed implementation of the Nordic Development Fund component affected consumer connection. A more reliable parallel financing arrangement has to be made to ensure the realization of designed project objectives. This matter needs to be addressed under ongoing and future loans16 for the power sector.

Project Number: 36205-013
Project Name: Power Sector Development Program (Project Loan)
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The construction of oil-fueled power plants by the public and private sectors increased Bangladesh Power Development Board's operational costs. The tariff increases by Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission in 2008-2012 were contrary to its tariff-setting methodology, which specifies at least a 10% return on assets. Rationalizing the tariff structure to provide an adequate margin to distribution entities can enable these entities to meet future financial requirements.

Project Number: 36205-013
Project Name: Power Sector Development Program (Project Loan)
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The Bangladesh Power Development Board corporatization target was a premature step, which underestimated the difficulties in the way of major reforms toward unbundling and corporatization in Bangladesh. The government has already changed its power sector reform agenda. Instead of corporatizing Bangladesh Power Development Board, it plans to restructure Bangladesh Power Development Board business functions into several generation and distribution strategic business units, which will operate under the existing legal structure and be functionally separate with more financial authority.

Project Number: 36205-013
Project Name: Power Sector Development Program (Project Loan)
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he use of consultant support with an evolving design requires flexibility. Therefore, packaging all consultant support in large lots through firms is not the best option. Institutional capacity development strategies should consider twinning between Bangladeshi and international institutions to developed capacity in the Directorate of Primary Education (DPE) and other local institutions. The international institutions can continue supporting the DPE after program completion.

Project Number: 30216-013
Project Name: Second Primary Education Development Program
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Balancing the combined roles of development partners, as agency staff providing oversight on behalf of the agency and as experts providing technical advice, requires constant attention and reflection to ensure that the government remains in the lead during implementation and that development partners get sufficient information to exercise oversight.

Project Number: 30216-013
Project Name: Second Primary Education Development Program
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A systemic approach to reforming the primary education system is required to address the complexity, complementarity and dependency of issues and organizations in primary education. To design such an integrated approach, a comprehensive subsector analysis to guide the scoping of the program and adopting realistic targets is necessary. The baseline study conducted by Directorate of Primary Education for the midterm review mission performed this function.

Project Number: 30216-013
Project Name: Second Primary Education Development Program
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Lesson
Assessment of executing agency capacity is critical when embarking on an ambitious sector-wide approach and particularly so in a large, complex primary education system like that in Bangladesh with development partners cofinancing the project. The high number of vacancies and limited capacity of the Directorate of Primary Education were acknowledged during the design phase, which should have prompted a need to consider a preparatory phase to get minimum preconditions in place before beginning the implementation.

Project Number: 30216-013
Project Name: Second Primary Education Development Program
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Selecting community extension worker from the local community, teaching them technical skills, supplying starter kits to them, and deploying them in the community worked well for service delivery and for establishing linkages amongst project beneficiaries and between the Department of Livestock Services field offices and non-government organizations.

Project Number: 35228-013
Project Name: Participatory Livestock Development II
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The Department of Livestock Services field offices are able to provide improved technical services, e.g., artificial insemination, vaccination, de-worming, and treatment services for the sick animals to project beneficiaries through establishing effective coordination mechanisms and by ensuring capacity enhancement support.

Project Number: 35228-013
Project Name: Participatory Livestock Development II
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Livestock enterprises can be potential sources of an increase in income for the rural poor because of high demand for livestock products, the potential for high returns, and due to easy access of rural poor to livestock inputs and production techniques.

Project Number: 35228-013
Project Name: Participatory Livestock Development II
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Effective service delivery (of mobilization, training, credit support, technical services, and intensive monitoring) to a large number of rural poor spread over a wide geographical area is possible by establishing workable partnerships between partner nongovernment organizations and the government's service department.

Project Number: 35228-013
Project Name: Participatory Livestock Development II
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Strengthen community-based irrigation and water resources management through water management associations. ISC collection and timely operation and maintenance (O&M) activities require improvement, through motivational drive to pay irrigation service charge and improved O&M planning and timely allocation of funds.

Project Number: 34038-013
Project Name: Jamuna-Meghna River Erosion Mitigation Project
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Improve disaster preparedness and risk management against flood hazards induced by riverbank erosion. A riverbank erosion prediction model was developed under the project, and is still in use by Bangladesh Water Development Board. Dissemination of information on predicted bank erosion from the model requires improvement.

Project Number: 34038-013
Project Name: Jamuna-Meghna River Erosion Mitigation Project
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Strengthen institutional capacity for adaptive and cost-effective design and implementation of riverbank erosion and management. The Bangladesh Water Development Board's (BWDB) institutional capacity has been strengthened for implementing cost-effective riverbank erosion mitigation. To this end, Guidelines for Riverbank Protection were developed under the project and approved by BWDB's management. This is treated as a knowledge product of ADB. The lesson from this has also been replicated regionally in a similar project funded by ADB in Assam, India.

Project Number: 34038-013
Project Name: Jamuna-Meghna River Erosion Mitigation Project
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A contractor's ability and commitment to deploy resources for civil works in good time is key to overall performance. While ADB's standard prequalification and bidding documents are devised to ascertain the bidders' technical and financial capabilities, further clarification is sometimes required to support the information provided by the bidders.

Project Number: 32223-013
Project Name: Road Network Improvement and Maintenance Project
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