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Lesson
Effectively engaging and coordinating with other donor agencies can help avoid duplication of funds for same or similar purposes, e.g., institutional strengthening and capacity building, and maximizing the efficient use of development financing

Project Number: 42489-043
Project Name: Water Supply and Sanitation Services Investment Program (Tranche 1)
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Effective and efficient utilization of project funds allocated for training and capacity building, in parallel with recruiting additional staff, will enhance the capability and practices of existing staff at the project management and implementation units.

Project Number: 42489-043
Project Name: Water Supply and Sanitation Services Investment Program (Tranche 1)
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If requirements on submission of audited project financial statements are properly formulated and covenanted, made realistic, and firmly understood by the executing agency, and timely actions are taken, they will ensure satisfactory implementation of financial covenants.

Project Number: 42489-043
Project Name: Water Supply and Sanitation Services Investment Program (Tranche 1)
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The level of internal government cooperation greatly affects the ability to address procurement and approval activities.

Project Number: 42489-043
Project Name: Water Supply and Sanitation Services Investment Program – Tranche 3
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Lesson
While public-private partnerships (PPPs) can help improve service delivery, this is a greenfield for Uzbekistan in view of the newly drafted PPP law. Thus, simpler management contracting could have been the more viable option.

Project Number: 42489-043
Project Name: Water Supply and Sanitation Services Investment Program – Tranche 3
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Lesson
Efficient and effective utilization in terms of reallocations of project financing is imperative to maximize the achievement of project outputs.

Project Number: 42489-043
Project Name: Water Supply and Sanitation Services Investment Program – Tranche 3
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Lesson
Critical elements of the outcome must be identified as early as possible and addressed either through additional funding or technical assistance prior to loan closing.

Project Number: 42489-043
Project Name: Water Supply and Sanitation Services Investment Program – Tranche 3
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Lesson
The cornerstone of effective programs is to ensure that the building blocks for acceptable management are in place; therefore, ADB should seek opportunities to ensure that coordinated and consistent project management procedures and practices are developed.

Project Number: 42489-043
Project Name: Water Supply and Sanitation Services Investment Program – Tranche 3
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Lesson
Effective development of competitive markets for infrastructure development require a policy framework to provide for project selection, development, tendering, bid evaluation, and contract management; therefore, donors should be careful before promoting competition in water supply and sanitation without a framework and internal capacity in place.

Project Number: 42489-043
Project Name: Water Supply and Sanitation Services Investment Program – Tranche 3
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Lesson
Economic and financial analyses should be consolidated to provide a snapshot of individual micro-targeted interventions and a macro-level view.

Project Number: 42489-043
Project Name: Water Supply and Sanitation Services Investment Program – Tranche 3
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Lesson
Improving performance of ADB may be achieved through resident mission management rather than from Manila, particularly in countries with complex institutional structures and approval processes.

Project Number: 42489-033
Project Name: Water Supply and Sanitation Services Investment Program (Project 2)
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Lesson
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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