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Lesson
Policy reforms are difficult to implement when (a) packaged with an investment project; (b) overambitious in terms of scope and time frame; and (c) developed without due consideration of general government policies, people's capacity, and the historic context.

Project Number: 30500-013
Project Name: Amu Zang Irrigation Rehabilitation Project
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Reduce implementation delays and ensuring that water supply networks have raw water to distribute and uninterrupted power to pump it.

Project Number: 35496-013
Project Name: Western Uzbekistan Rural Water Supply Project
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Pay attention to broader issues of water resource management.

Project Number: 35496-013
Project Name: Western Uzbekistan Rural Water Supply Project
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Without proper monitoring and evaluation with baseline data, targets, and reported results, the achievement of intended public health impacts by a project like this might occur but will be impossible to demonstrate.

Project Number: 35496-013
Project Name: Western Uzbekistan Rural Water Supply Project
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The lack of an appraisal mission may have contributed to insufficient attention to both key aspects of project design and to ensuring borrower ownership. This is in relation to the decision by ADB to waive an appraisal missions.

Project Number: 35496-013
Project Name: Western Uzbekistan Rural Water Supply 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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Consultants should be fielded early in the project implementation period.

Project Number: 35496-013
Project Name: Western Uzbekistan Rural Water Supply Project
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Lesson
This validation also considers lessons that can be drawn from the project relating to the problems of establishing viable private sector institutions in a transition economy. For instance, RBAC and the MTP were intended to be self-sufficient by project end. In practice, their ability to charge fees or recover loans has been limited, and neither organization is likely to be sustainable without continuing support from the government. The WUAs likewise are only able to collect 20% to 30% of their fees.

Project Number: 30458-013
Project Name: Ak Altin Agricultural Development Project
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Lesson
Initial implementation delays need to be reduced. To this end, more work should be completed during project preparation including (a) the preparation of a request for proposal for consulting services, (b) the approval of advance action for the procurement of consulting services and construction contracts, (c) the preparation of feasibility studies and their approval by the government, and (d) the preparation of tender documents for the first contract package.

Project Number: 35496-013
Project Name: Western Uzbekistan Rural Water Supply Project
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Lesson
There may be wider lessons that can be drawn about donor assistance that would effect major policy reforms in transition economies. While donors are keen to free up agriculture, and the government in principle agrees, it is nonetheless extremely cautious about reforms. The government continues to operate at its own pace, and is almost immune to international pressure. Thus, until a reform roadmap has been defined and fully endorsed by all stakeholders, including the upper levels of government, little is likely to be achieved.

Project Number: 30458-013
Project Name: Ak Altin Agricultural Development Project
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Uninterrupted power supply and assured raw water availability are critical to ensure the sustainability of investments. Such infrastructure constraints that are outside the control of a particular project may reduce the project's benefits as well as accelerate the depreciation of the assets created.

Project Number: 35496-013
Project Name: Western Uzbekistan Rural Water Supply Project
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The midterm review should thoroughly review the project, including knowledge of ground realities, costs, and implementation progress, and come up with a revised project scope, if warranted, keeping in view the budgetary provisions, and a realistic implementation schedule.

Project Number: 35496-013
Project Name: Western Uzbekistan Rural Water Supply Project
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Market-level compensation is necessary to attract and retain competent staff at the PMU and PIUs.

Project Number: 35496-013
Project Name: Western Uzbekistan Rural Water Supply Project
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Market-level compensation is necessary to attract and retain competent staff at PMU, PIUs, and vodokanals.

Project Number: 33548-013
Project Name: Urban Water Supply Project
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Local government counterpart funding should not be included in future projects because such funds were invariably delayed which resulted in implementation delays.

Project Number: 33548-013
Project Name: Urban Water Supply Project
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