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To ensure sustainability, it is important that policy initiatives are supported by ongoing policy and institutional reforms.

Project Number: 34388-013
Project Name: Second Education Sector Development Program
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A clear gender and ethnic minority action plan must be developed at inception, along with robust reporting systems anddesignated focal persons

Project Number: 34388-013
Project Name: Second Education Sector Development Program
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While recognizing the affordability issue associated with water supply and sewerage connection for the poorer households, an equitable tariff structure based on quantity and purpose of use is needed to ensure sustainability of infrastructure and project benefits over the project’s economic life.

Project Number: 29282-013, 29282-023
Project Name: Provincial Towns Improvement Project
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Civil works education projects must have strong and informed supervisory and monitoring systems in place, staffed by trained and competent personnel to enforce quality standards. If community supervision is used, then there must be orientation and training for the members.

Project Number: 34388-013
Project Name: Second Education Sector Development Program
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More rigorous efforts should be made in ensuring that the quantity and quality of consultants deployed by consulting firms is adequate for specialized tasks. Consultants’ performance should be critically assessed during and after the project by executing agencies and ADB, and appropriate action taken to ensure that consulting services are available for the right purpose, at the right time, and in the right forms.

Project Number: 29282-013, 29282-023
Project Name: Provincial Towns Improvement Project
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Baseline information and regular monitoring are essential components to evaluate project performance; monitoring and evaluation should be undertaken properly during project implementation.

Project Number: 39603-012
Project Name: Tonle Sap Sustainable Livelihoods Project
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No additional lesson.

Project Number: 34390-013
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion Transmission Project
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It is easy to overestimate the capacity needed to implement a project that is largely undertaking pilot activities and which also involves significant reforms. At all levels of involvement - executing agency, service providers, contractors, farmers' water user community members - capacity constraints affected project performance. In these circumstances, the project design was both overambitious (e.g., by not focusing on fewer subprojects from the outset) and not rigorous enough (in its analysis of the risks and assumptions inherent in many operations).

Project Number: 34379-013
Project Name: Northwest Irrigation Sector Project
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ADB was able to use its convening power effectively because it had the necessary in-house technical expertise. Public health experts on ADB's staff with knowledge of emerging infectious diseases were involved in designing and implementing the project. This in-house expertise made the dialogue with the technical and regional agencies to strengthen regional collaboration within and across the animal health and human health sectors possible.

Project Number: 39662-012
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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Each new outbreak of disease confronts projects such as this one, as well as the implementing partners and global community, with a fresh challenge, because its early spread outpaces the gathering of scientific evidence needed to formulate containment policies. Each successive outbreak is followed by an initial opaque period characterized by a frustrating lack of scientific evidence on which to base policies and technical guidance.

Project Number: 39662-012
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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The rapid launch and accelerated implementation of the project made necessary by the threat that avian influenza would become a pandemic made it difficult to define verifiable indicators for a number of the outputs under the regional capacity building and regional coordination components. A mid-term review of the project would have facilitated a review and updating of the design and monitoring framework.

Project Number: 39662-012
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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The project supported the One Health concept, which emphasizes the links between animal health and human health and emerging animal and human diseases. One Health provided a platform for unprecedented integration of animal, human and ecosystem health issues to fight the threat of avian influenza. The systematic collaboration of technical agencies across disciplines, such as FAO (veterinarians) and WHO (medical doctors) and civil society organizations (community health workers) supported by the project has promoted this concept since the beginning of the project.

Project Number: 39662-012
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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ADB's high-level steering committee demonstrated ADB's institutional support, which enhanced coordination between development partners. The committee, comprising the heads of all regional departments and the Strategy and Policy Department and chaired by the director general of RSDD, provided prompt policy guidance and expedited decisions and actions. It also ensured that the needs of the countries were ascertained and that they had adequate access to project resources.

Project Number: 39662-012
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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Country context is important in project design and implementation. The Commune Council Development Project has shown that a successful program has to recognize the social, political, administrative, and historical context of the country. In this case, Cambodia was just beginning its post-conflict stage, challenged by various problems such as lack of basic physical resources at the commune level and absence of administrative capacities of elected council officials. The design and implementation of the project took into consideration these local contexts.

Project Number: 35274-013, 35274-052, 37256-022
Project Name: Commune Council Development Project
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Tapping the experience of other organizations and the private sector maximizes the process of citizen engagement. Teachers, community-based volunteers, monks, and even hospitals were tapped to influence more people to register. Also, the use of a private bank for disbursement for the construction of council offices proved efficient.

Project Number: 35274-013, 35274-052, 37256-022
Project Name: Commune Council Development Project
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