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Implementation was hampered by inadequate training of teachers despite the conduct of local trainings and enrollment in a master’s degree program. At project completion, there was still a significant lack of qualified applicants to fill available teaching posts. These trainings lacked strategic direction. An institutionalized professional development program for TVET teachers could have been developed as part of project design instead of individualized and one-time training programs.

Project Number: 33166-013
Project Name: The Marshall Islands: Skills Training and Vocational Education Project
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There is a need to assess TVET’s linkages with basic education (elementary and secondary) and how it feeds into tertiary and voc-tech education and subsequently into the labor market to improve the quality and delivery of TVET. In particular, it is important to focus on the poor quality of education gained by students emerging from elementary and secondary levels. Before entering into any TVET project, it is essential to ensure quality basic education.

Project Number: 33166-013
Project Name: The Marshall Islands: Skills Training and Vocational Education Project
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A well-coordinated institutional arrangement among concerned agencies and institutions could have been in place before project appraisal. The institutional environment at that time was characterized by unclear mandates and overlapping roles and responsibilities and low staff absorption capacity for the planned activities. These led to uncoordinated and poorly planned trainings, improper sequencing of training programs, and duplication of efforts and use of resources.

Project Number: 33166-013
Project Name: The Marshall Islands: Skills Training and Vocational Education Project
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While it provides the benefit of flexibility (i.e., deferring subprograms wherein the program design cannot be fully defined at appraisal), care must be taken to maximize the achievement of critical objectives even if ongoing subprograms are canceled.

Project Number: 37752-013
Project Name: Power Sector Development Program
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The project-commissioned monitoring inadequately reported the actual implementation issues at field level. Third party monitoring on an annual basis would improve project performance. The reporting could be in the form of back-to-office notes that outline issues in need of attention and make recommendations.

Project Number: 37027-013
Project Name: Subregional Transport Facilitation Project
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The government needed to review and include interim milestone dates in the contract documents to ensure timely work completion and avoid extensions. The government also needed to institutionalize a safeguard system within the organizational framework of the project, particularly during implementation, for effective monitoring and supervision of and timely compliance with safeguard covenants.

Project Number: 37027-013
Project Name: Subregional Transport Facilitation Project
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There were some difficulties in contract administration between the DOC and UNCTAD. Although the contract for the ASYCUDA was signed between DOR and UNCTAD, DOC was the main agency to supervise UNCTAD’s work. DOC felt that it was less effective in the UNCTAD contract implementation because it was not a party to the contract. Contract provisions should have clearly stated the role, responsibilities, and implementation arrangements of DOC.

Project Number: 37027-013
Project Name: Subregional Transport Facilitation Project
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The practice of international joint venture partners not actively participating in the implementation of the contracts awarded was observed during project implementation. To ensure involvement of all joint venture partners in contract administration, it would be necessary for each partner to issue a guarantee against the collateral for their individual and joint liability. Issuance of individual and joint liability along with a performance bond would ensure liability for the work among all joint venture partners.

Project Number: 37027-013
Project Name: Subregional Transport Facilitation Project
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Project Number: 35337-013
Project Name: Guangxi Roads Development II Project
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One significant additional lesson is the importance of monitoring the results of reform programs even after the financial closure of the program, ensuring that the government and its various implementing agencies develop a strong sense of ownership for the reform initiatives. As pointed out in para. 19, these types of SME reform measures would usually take much longer time to achieve real outcomes on the ground.

Project Number: 34344 -013, 38335-013
Project Name: Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Program Cluster (Subprograms 1 and 2)
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An additional lesson identified by this validation relates to regional projects: all parties should agree on uniform standards covering, in this case, vehicular movements across international boundaries. Both Thailand and the PRC have higher legal axle load limits than the Lao PDR. This creates enforcement issues on permissible axle load limits and should have been resolved early on in project preparation.

Project Number: 34231-013
Project Name: Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Greater Mekong Subregion: Northern Economic Corridor Project
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No additional lessons

Project Number: 33459-013
Project Name: Xi’an Urban Transport Project
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No additional lessons

Project Number: 31341-013
Project Name: Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Northern Area Rural Power Distribution Project
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No additional lessons

Project Number: 28191-013
Project Name: Provincial Power Supply Project
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There is a need to ensure a better coordination between the sovereign and nonsovereign operations in ADB so that the two sets of operations can operate in the country in a seamless manner. This is especially important in view of the enhanced role of nonsovereign operations under Strategy 2020 in a high middle income country such as Kazakhstan.

Project Number: 43330-013
Project Name: Countercylical Support Loan
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