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For the sake of efficiency of resources, similar works should be packaged into bigger contracts suitable for international competitive bidding and more efforts is needed during the prequalification and bid evaluation stages to ensure that the selected contractors are fully familiar with the country norms and practices.

Project Number: 33548-013
Project Name: Urban Water Supply Project
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This validation concurs with these but notes that the lesson regarding policy reform failed to emphasize the need for all parties, particularly those at the provincial and district levels, to be fully committed to the reform agenda. Support for reform at the central level is not enough.

Project Number: 31577-013
Project Name: Grain Productivity Improvement Project [Loan 2017-UZB]
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For agriculture enterprise development to be successful, sufficient lead time and necessary information and data should be provided, preferably through demonstration farms, for farmers to be convinced of what types of machinery and equipment to procure; subloan procedures should be simplified and the processing time shortened.

Project Number: 31577-013
Project Name: Grain Productivity Improvement Project
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Project management staff benefits should match with those of comparable private sector institutions to prevent high turnover that constrains project management.

Project Number: 31577-013
Project Name: Grain Productivity Improvement Project
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While involving a number of government institutions and building their capacity is desirable for sustainability, enough resources should be provided for effective coordination.

Project Number: 31577-013
Project Name: Grain Productivity Improvement Project
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For water users' associations (WUAs) and other community-based organizations to be effective and sustainable, they should have a good source(s) of income and reasonable leverage to collect.

Project Number: 31577-013
Project Name: Grain Productivity Improvement Project
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The implementation period should be realistic, determined after a thorough analysis of activities and their inter-relations and sequence. As the design implementation period of the project was short, some targets, particularly those related to varietal development and testing, were ambitious.

Project Number: 31577-013
Project Name: Grain Productivity Improvement Project
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Field trial-cum-demonstration farms are effective in introducing improved technologies to farmers.

Project Number: 31577-013
Project Name: Grain Productivity Improvement Project
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In forming loan covenants regarding policy reforms, sector issues should be reviewed in total, as some reforms may be rendered ineffective by various distortions.

Project Number: 31577-013
Project Name: Grain Productivity Improvement Project
Report Date:
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It is important to provide suitable incentives to attract commercial seed growers, which is key to providing quality seed of new varieties to farmers, in addition to incentives for increasing the capacity of the breeding institutions to multiply high- quality foundation seed.

Project Number: 31577-013
Project Name: Grain Productivity Improvement Project
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Participating financial institutions (PFIs) should be selected more thoroughly keeping in view their relevant experience, geographic coverage, staff, and other resources.

Project Number: 31577-013
Project Name: Grain Productivity Improvement Project
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The text book rental scheme (TRS) can serve as one of the models on textbook provision for other countries in Central Asia given the efficiency and effectiveness by which it was implemented. Contributing to the successful implementation of this scheme is the government's commitment and the design's alignment to government's priorities. Resources were used efficiently to establish functional arrangements that ensured sustainability of funding and made available and affordable textbooks to students and teacher's guides to teachers.

Project Number: 36510-013
Project Name: Second Textbook Development Project
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During project implementation, key project officers in ADB and the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources changed, contributing to delayed decision making and project implementation. A new project officer should take over the project administration and management with adequate time, and ADB should ensure that the previous project officer accompanies a new project officer on mission to ensure a seamless transition in project administration.

Project Number: 30458-013
Project Name: Ak Altin Agricultural Development Project
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The project completion mission noted that some farmers interviewed were unaware of their obligations to the government for on-farm rehabilitation cost recovery, despite having signed a repayment agreement with each water users' association and the government before rehabilitation works. This suggests that farmers had limited awareness of the cost-recovery requirements and that the farmers who were not willing to pay for rehabilitation might have been included in on-farm irrigation and drainage (I&D) systems.

Project Number: 30458-013
Project Name: Ak Altin Agricultural Development Project
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Discussion and dialogue on language of instruction (LOI) for ethnic minorities remains a sensitive issue in most countries in the Commonwealth of Independent States. Any debate of change in LOIs should be widely discussed before implementation and aim at (i) improving ethnic minorities' chances to enter the best senior secondary and higher education institutions, and (ii) acquiring language skills necessary for better job opportunities while providing necessary support to maintain their identity. [Main text, paras. 8, 45]

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