Search

Displaying 1 - 15 of 16

Lesson
An adaptive approach can work effectively to mitigate riverbank erosion if it is executed to its full extent. Such riverbank protection work requires persistent commitment and continuous effort, unlike a one-time physical investment. Effective mitigation measures using geo-bags along riverbanks requires the implementation of an adaptive approach. O&M activities, including routine maintenance, need to be continuously implemented in parallel.

Project Number: 34038-013
Project Name: Jamuna-Meghna River Erosion Mitigation Project
Report Date:
Lesson
Agreement of all project stakeholders on the use of an adaptive approach and on O&M at the design stage is crucial for achieving project results. More time should have been spent during project design to ensure there was a common understanding on the following questions: What activities are required for the adaptive approach? What is the difference between the adaptive approach and O&M? Who is responsible for the implementation of the adaptive approach and O&M? How is the adaptive approach to be implemented after the project?

Project Number: 34038-013
Project Name: Jamuna-Meghna River Erosion Mitigation Project
Report Date:
Lesson
The riverbank erosion management system can play a crucial role in sustaining the adaptive approach beyond the life of the project. Greater clarity is needed on what a riverbank erosion management system (REMS) consists of and what institutional setting is required to make it sustainable. Effective operation of a REMS needs to be based on a crystal-clear consensus on the roles of local stakeholders, implementation arrangements, and Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) coordination and financial commitment.

Project Number: 34038-013
Project Name: Jamuna-Meghna River Erosion Mitigation Project
Report Date:
Lesson
Given that the flood protection benefit is largely reflected in higher land and building values, cost recovery for embankment maintenance should be sourced more from property (building and land) taxes rather than from irrigation service charges, which is linked to more usage of irrigation water.

Project Number: 34038-013
Project Name: Jamuna–Meghna River Erosion Mitigation Project
Report Date:
Lesson
There is a need for a clear separation of analysis on the institutional setup and financing responsibilities between different functions, which in this project were riverbank protection and irrigation managemen

Project Number: 34038-013
Project Name: Jamuna–Meghna River Erosion Mitigation Project
Report Date:
Lesson
The government should also be forewarned of the need to develop and install a support system to sustain the water management cooperative associations given their vulnerability to scheming and divisive tactics from various self-serving groups.

Project Number: 30209-013
Project Name: Second Small-Scale Water Resources Development Sector Project
Report Date:
Lesson
Implementation delays could not have ensued and loan extension could have been negated if the following were undertaken early on during project preparation or implementation: (i) identification and deployment of qualified personnel, (ii) conscientious study of the manpower requirements of the Integrated Water Resources Management Unitwith the view of stemming employee turnover and sustaining staff interest and commitment to work, (iii) careful selection of partner NGOs, and (iv) thorough needs assessment of subprojects.

Project Number: 30209-013
Project Name: Second Small-Scale Water Resources Development Sector Project
Report Date:
Lesson
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
Report Date:
Lesson
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
Report Date:
Lesson
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
Report Date:
Lesson
The Local Government Engineering Department should have submitted withdrawal applications on time and ADB disbursements against the applications also had to be timely, to sustain the flow of funds. [Main text, para. 60(v)]

Project Number: 30209-013
Project Name: Second Small-Scale Water Resources Development Sector Project
Report Date:
Lesson
The quality of subproject planning and design depended on the quality of the consulting firms and their staff. National consulting firms for the feasibility studies and detailed design should therefore have been better managed by the Local Government Engineering Department. [Main text, para. 60(iv)]

Project Number: 30209-013
Project Name: Second Small-Scale Water Resources Development Sector Project
Report Date:
Lesson
Project delays could have been reduced significantly if the project director and other staff had been appointed on time, if competent consulting firms were managed for timely delivery and if the contracts had provided for price increases. [Main text, para. 60(iii)]

Project Number: 30209-013
Project Name: Second Small-Scale Water Resources Development Sector Project
Report Date:
Lesson
The project had significant positive impact through increased crop and fish production and through its micro-credit operations. [Main text, para. 60(ii)]

Project Number: 30209-013
Project Name: Second Small-Scale Water Resources Development Sector Project
Report Date:
Lesson
Information campaigns through subproject fact sheets as part of the member education program, and the project newsletter proved more successful than the nongovernment organization facilitator. Bylaws were well drafted by the executive committees of the water management cooperative associations. [Main text, para. 60(i)]

Project Number: 30209-013
Project Name: Second Small-Scale Water Resources Development Sector Project
Report Date: