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Financing repairs. The government should take effective financing measures for O&M and repairs to support IMCs and the cooperatives, especially through the provincial people’s committees. Mechanisms to ensure that IMCs and WUGs receive funds at the right time for repairs are needed. At a minimum, WUGs and cooperatives must work closely with the IMCs to ensure timely and effective O&M. The newly established Disaster Management Authority within MARD should play a role in this.

Project Number: 30292-023
Project Name: Central Region Water Resources Project
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Measures to minimize flood damage. Close monitoring of the condition of the infrastructure is needed and cost recovery measures should be instituted for O&M of: (i) tertiary systems managed by cooperatives, and (ii) primary and secondary systems managed by IMCs and IMEs. The findings of the monitoring exercises should be regularly shared with the central and provincial governments to help MARD and the DARDs prepare budgets and mobilize resources.

Project Number: 30292-023
Project Name: Central Region Water Resources Project
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Making use of water users groups. Although their autonomy was short-lived, WUGs functioned well using hydraulic boundaries. Project WUGs had their own bank accounts and stamp and the right to sign contracts. They received training in irrigation planning and management and financial management. Empowered water users became fully committed to the infrastructure that was crucial to their agriculture livelihood. It was acknowledged by the IMCs, the cooperatives, and even by DARDs that some WUGs constructed tertiary irrigation canals more quickly and/or at lower cost than PPMUs.

Project Number: 30292-023
Project Name: Central Region Water Resources Project
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Appropriate monitoring systems. The project introduced a project performance monitoring system that made use of GIS and was supposed to be applied by the PPMUs. However, since benefits started to materialize only upon completion of the project, the government was more interested in construction monitoring. After the project, no funds were available for the continued use of the project performance monitoring system and it has been abandoned.

Project Number: 30292-023
Project Name: Central Region Water Resources Project
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Given the objective of developing demonstration subprojects that will benefit the poor and the ethnic minorities, a tourism evaluation specialist should have been recruited to document subproject experiences in the two countries to help in replicating these in all GMS countries.

Project Number: 38015-013
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion: Sustainable Tourism Development Project
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Changes in government policy during project implementation can influence project outcomes. The project benefited from an improved health insurance mechanism introduced by the Government of Viet Nam.

Project Number: 40019-013
Project Name: Health Care in the South Central Coast Region Project
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When projects are implemented under decentralization, consultation and capacity building of the provinces and implementing agencies at the decentralized level are essential and need to start during project preparation. The needs identified by the central level may not be felt at the decentralized level, which could result in delays or non-implementation of project activities, reducing the potential benefits of the project.

Project Number: 40019-013
Project Name: Health Care in the South Central Coast Region Project
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To achieve poverty reduction and equity, the needs of disadvantaged groups must be identified not only by technically qualified experts, but also by the intended beneficiaries. Planning and budgeting for health services must be based on accurate and disaggregated data that are made available on time.

Project Number: 40019-013
Project Name: Health Care in the South Central Coast Region Project
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Ensuring the health and safety of works contractors is of utmost importance.

Project Number: 36352-015
Project Name: Song Bung 4 Hydropower Project
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Resettlement takes time.

Project Number: 36352-013
Project Name: Song Bung 4 Hydropower Project
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Timely completion of high-quality works requires an experienced project manager.

Project Number: 36352-014
Project Name: Song Bung 4 Hydropower Project
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Complementary reforms and investments in service delivery and financing result in the sustained expansion of access to health care services.

Project Number: 40019-013
Project Name: Health Care in the South Central Coast Region Project
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A sound design, developed through a consultative process, is critical to the success of a complex project.

Project Number: 40019-013
Project Name: Health Care in the South Central Coast Region Project
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Cofinancing could reduce flexibility.

Project Number: 41013-013
Project Name: Thanh Hoa City Comprehensive Socioeconomic Development Project
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Subproject selection and design in tourism sector projects has to be underpinned by a detailed analysis of tourism demand.

Project Number: 38015-013
Project Name: GMS Sustainable Tourism Development Project
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