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Subproject Appraisal Reports. Since SARs were prepared for each upazila, 96 SARs were produced. This was a huge and time consuming task that took almost two years to complete. It is recommended that future projects should produce SARs on the basis of districts or regions rather than upazila. This concept would have reduced the number of reports to 16 if prepared on a district basis or 2 if prepared on a regional basis.

Project Number: 31304-013
Project Name: Rural Infrastructure Improvement Project
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Advanced Procurement Action. Early procurement for contract packages is absolutely essential to enable projects to meet their implementation schedule. In this case, the major civil works contract packages for year 1 were prepared by the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) during the feasibility study before the project consultants were mobilized and the subproject appraisal reports (SARs) were prepared. Early recruitment of the consultants would have improved the performance of the project in the early stages. The recruitment process should be simplified to avoid delays.

Project Number: 31304-013
Project Name: Rural Infrastructure Improvement Project
Report Date:
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Women's Market Section (WMS). The project made an effort to include WMSs in all market developments to bring women more into the mainstream of the rural economy. However, women in some areas are conservative and not willing to run shops side-by-side with men. WMSs should only be included in market developments where project appraisal indicates that women are interested and available to participate in running the facilities; otherwise, the resources can be used elsewhere.

Project Number: 31304-013
Project Name: Rural Infrastructure Improvement Project
Report Date:
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Drinking Water in Market Developments. The project has installed on a pilot basis a low-cost piped water supply system for drinking purposes at Haibatpur Growth Center in Jessore district, which is an arsenic-affected area. A water management committee within the market management committee (MMC) is managing the operation and maintenance of the system, and collects user fees. This approach to the supply of low-cost water in a growth center market (GCM) has proven to be feasible and may be replicated in future projects, while taking its shortcomings into account.

Project Number: 31304-013
Project Name: Rural Infrastructure Improvement Project
Report Date: