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Lesson
Capacity building is needed in enabling institutions to reach the poor with demand driven products and services.

Project Number: 33196-013
Project Name: Small and Microfinance Development Project
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The selection of appropriate institutions is crucial in targeting poor and low-income households. Commercial banks are constrained to reach large numbers of poor households due to inherent rigidities of bank regulations and policies.

Project Number: 33196-013
Project Name: Small and Microfinance Development Project
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The use of credit lines is not adequate in meeting long-term development needs and constraints of the sector.

Project Number: 33196-013
Project Name: Small and Microfinance Development Project
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The definition of microfinance at appraisal in the context of Uzbekistan should have been given upfront to provide overall guidance in the project design.

Project Number: 33196-013
Project Name: Small and Microfinance Development Project
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Poverty intervention projects such as the project need to be clear on the mechanisms for ensuring participation of the poor.

Project Number: 33196-013
Project Name: Small and Microfinance Development Project
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An additional lesson is that if the executing agency’s limited relevant experience of project design and implementation is known at the outset at the project design stage (i.e., as confirmed in the risk assessment), it is necessary to design appropriate mitigation strategies. These could include the following: (i) design smaller pilot projects to gain experience before larger projects are tackled; or (ii) make significant consultant support available in the early stages of implementation to strengthen capacity and ensure timely implementation.

Project Number: 33548-013
Project Name: Urban Water Supply Project
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Development of textbooks and related teaching aids needs to be meticulously synchronized with the new curriculum development in order to avoid any delays and lost time.

Project Number: 36510-013
Project Name: Second Textbook Development Project
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In addition, this validation emphasizes that institutional capacity building is critical in monitoring and evaluating the project. Policymakers need to be able to monitor the results and impact of the intervention in order to track the success of a reform project. ADB should continue working with the government to support the education sector reforms in Uzbekistan.

Project Number: 36510-013
Project Name: Second Textbook Development Project
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