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A higher level of attention and perhaps resources need to be given to the gathering of impact and outcome data at the start, middle, and end of the project. These are needed for a higher-quality evaluation and results-oriented management of the project, Coordinated execution of all envisaged activities and provision of both “software” and “hardware” support to beneficiaries are key elements that could facilitate implementation.

Project Number: 34379-013
Project Name: Northwest Irrigation Sector Project
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Capacity building (planning). Road Data Collection and Management Unit staff are still unable to complete a road maintenance planning report with solid budget recommendations, which needs to be improved._x005F_x000D__x005F_x000D_Capacity building (implementation). The overall institutional setup for asset management, construction supervision and quality assurance and/or quality control, still needs improvement to be practically usable.

Project Number: 41123-013
Project Name: Road Asset Management Project
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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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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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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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Consultation and dialogue with stakeholders is important where partnerships are expected to deepen the process of decentralization and democratization. The project was among the first ADB-funded projects that supported the construction of commune offices. ADB did not normally fund such activities but in this case supported it based on consultation with the concerned officials. A similar observation can be made for ADB’s support for civil registration.

Project Number: 35274-013, 35274-052, 37256-022
Project Name: Commune Council Development Project
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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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Decentralization is a continuing process that can provide the enabling framework of the democracy. The project experience has shown that decentralization can usefully begin with developing basic capacities (human and physical). Capacity development is, however, a continuous process.

Project Number: 35274-013, 35274-052, 37256-022
Project Name: Commune Council Development Project
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More modern ways by which program management consultants and engineering supervision consultants to monitor and encourage contractor performance on the environmental dimensions of their work is helpful. Reference could be made, for example, to an excellent system of environmental quality monitoring of contractors, linked with small (but rising) withholdings from their monthly invoice payments until shortfalls are corrected. Consultants developed and applied the system for the Ministry of Public Works of Jordan some 4 years ago, which now has a record of proven success.

Project Number: 30240-013
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion: Cambodia Road Improvement Project
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Effective program loan implementation requires political stability, strong ownership and commitment on the part of the government to implement reforms in education.

Project Number: 33396-012, 33396-013, 33396-023
Project Name: Education Sector Development Program
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Adequate coordination, supported by an appropriate mix of program loan, project loan, and advisory TA from ADB, is needed for the effective implementation of sector-wide approaches.

Project Number: 33396-012, 33396-013, 33396-023
Project Name: Education Sector Development Program
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