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The necessity of water users’ associations (WUAs) needs to be carefully considered at project preparation.

Project Number: 38594-013
Project Name: Guiyang Integrated Water Resources Management (Sector) Project
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Complementing integrated agricultural development projects with institutional development, technical support, and training, is crucial for sustainability.

Project Number: 43049-013
Project Name: Comprehensive Agricultural Development Project
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Adopting a consistent model and streamlining procurement and reporting processes facilitates the successful implementation of projects across a large and scattered geographic area.

Project Number: 43049-013
Project Name: Comprehensive Agricultural Development Project
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Well-defined indicators and baseline information and continuous monitoring are vital to reliably assessing the changes that are directly attributable to a project.

Project Number: 43049-013
Project Name: Comprehensive Agricultural Development Project
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The importance of project preparation and quality at entry is of utmost importance for similar projects in the future. A better prepared project can reduce issues that may potentially impede implementation at the early stages of implementation.

Project Number: 39321-013
Project Name: Shaanxi Qinling Biodiversity Conservation and Demonstration Project
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The project experiences have illustrated the potential financial gains from improved environmental management and conservation. The project has demonstrated enhanced coordination in public finance allocation across institutions in charge of the environment and natural resources. Given the likelihood that such operations will grow in the region, the experience of this project will be valuable.

Project Number: 39321-013
Project Name: Shaanxi Qinling Biodiversity Conservation and Demonstration Project
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The government’s commitment and ownership strengthen the project’s credibility. Providing timely response and adequate support from start-up to completion are critical in overcoming the implementation difficulties in various occasions. For instance, the PMO’s leadership could have helped ensurethat assistance was provided on time to implementing agencies. This, in turn, would help in easing delays in the procurement activities and implementation of subprojects.

Project Number: 42383-023
Project Name: Shanxi Small Cities and Towns Development Demonstration Sector Project
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A project’s medium-term review (MTR provides an opportunity to reassess and modify a project’s DMF, in terms of realistic performance targets, configuration of components and/or outputs, subprojects’ selection, and timeframe of implementation. Project team could strive to review all project’s aspects during an MTR in addition to focusing on project administration and changes in scope.

Project Number: 42383-023
Project Name: Shanxi Small Cities and Towns Development Demonstration Sector Project
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More careful assessment of the targeted area’s topography for gravity irrigation project enhances project performance, including agricultural productivity. For instance, determining the suitability of land area and its compatibility with irrigation development through the examination of the supply and quality of water resources, agro-climatic conditions, carrying capacity, and cropping intensity, including the agricultural practices and beneficiaries’ culture in place, supports a productive and sustainable management of irrigation and drainage system.

Project Number: 42016-013
Project Name: Qinghai Rural Water Resources Management Project
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Focusing the development efforts on the very poorest and most backward regions will often result in a more expensive investment with lower economic gains and impact. Investment funds spent on the project could have had a much broader and wider impact if invested in a region with greater development potential. There are regions that are better off with development funding through social assistance and/or transfer payments to ease the poverty situation than investment projects. The latter would be a less technically and economically practical option.

Project Number: 42016-013
Project Name: Qinghai Rural Water Resources Management Project
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The review process and systematic monitoring of wetlands restoration project are imperative to deepen the benefits from environmental conservation and sustainable livelihood. A well developed monitoring and evaluation mechanism that would appropriately track the project status permits the timely implementation of project operation. Since project performance rating is one of the outputs of the monitoring and evaluation system, it periodically informs management on any potential risk in portfolio performance.

Project Number: 40685-013
Project Name: Jiangsu Yancheng Wetlands Protection Project
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Soliciting support and involving local stakeholders during project preparation ensures their greater ownership. It offers an opportunity to understand the local socioeconomic and ecological conditions surrounding the livelihoods and needs of the people. This creates effective solutions for biodiversity conservation and wetlands protection. Thus, the inclusion of natural resource users (e.g., farmers) is an essential step to ensuring that local knowledge is integrated into project planning and designing.

Project Number: 40685-013
Project Name: Jiangsu Yancheng Wetlands Protection Project
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The GEP is instrumental in placing additional weight on environmental factors in assessing the overall productivity of a given area; however, that the complexity of assessment will require that indicators be further refined over time.

Project Number: 48469-001
Project Name: Developing Gross Ecosystem Product Accounting for Eco-Compensation
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This comment suggests that private sector involvement would be a good thing, and that it is possible. However this is the first mention of it in the TCR and context is lacking as to how the private sector could be involved. More information would contextualize this comment and deepen its meaning.

Project Number: 48469-001
Project Name: Developing Gross Ecosystem Product Accounting for Eco-Compensation
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This is a narrative comment rather than a lesson and could be better suited in the Conduct of Activities section. It could be formulated as a lesson, as follows:Strong government leadership is instrumental to TA success.

Project Number: 48469-001
Project Name: Developing Gross Ecosystem Product Accounting for Eco-Compensation
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