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Project Number: 34207-013
Project Name: Northwestern Rural Development Project
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Procurement reform. The government procurement policy of verifying price after finalizing a contract under ICB causes serious project implementation difficulties. This policy should be either discontinued or streamlined and made part of the bid evaluation process.

Project Number: 40049-013
Project Name: Rural Basic Education Project
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Clear understanding of government and ADB policies, guidelines, and procedures. Lack of familiarity with and understanding of policies, guidelines, and procedures of the government and ADB�particularly on procurement, accounting, and financial reporting�is often a source of confusion and delays. It is important that project implementation unit (PIU) staff, especially new ones where staff turnover is high, be given adequate orientation and hands-on training. PIU budgets should contain allocations for staff training.

Project Number: 40049-013
Project Name: Rural Basic Education Project
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Assessment of capacity of the executing agency. During project preparation a comprehensive assessment of the executing agency's procurement capacity should help identify possible challenges in project implementation. In case of weak capacity, technical assistance grants can help to strengthen procurement capacity, especially in projects where success is linked predominantly to fast- paced, transparent procurement involving international competitive bidding (ICB).

Project Number: 40049-013
Project Name: Rural Basic Education Project
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Competitive selection of beneficiaries. The competitive approach used in the selection of beneficiary schools (i) proved effective in identifying schools with committed management and supportive communities; (ii) fostered a strong sense of ownership among the school's stakeholders: and (iii) encouraged a cooperative effort among the school board, school management, teachers, and parents in identifying priority needs and corresponding improvement programs.

Project Number: 40049-013
Project Name: Rural Basic Education Project
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Developing an indicator to measure quality improvements during the life of the project could have assisted in focusing the quality improvement interventions. A national assessment of student achievement using international standards is part of the school sector reform program. Grades 3, 5, and 8 will be assessed.

Project Number: 34022-013
Project Name: Secondary Education Support Project
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In the case of pool funding, efforts should be made to continue collaboration until the end, including a joint evaluation, to identify joint lessons and to maximize use of resources.

Project Number: 34022-013
Project Name: Secondary Education Support Project
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Deliberately designing stakeholder participation and public debates on education policy reforms could have benefited implementation. The lack of broader stakeholder participation, particularly in the districts, risks losing ownership by implementing agencies.

Project Number: 34022-013
Project Name: Secondary Education Support Project
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The dependence of reforms on proposed legal provisions should be analyzed. Both the development of the national curriculum framework and the decentralization of education could not be implemented fully because the legal provisions were not in place.

Project Number: 34022-013
Project Name: Secondary Education Support Project
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Benchmarking education quality reforms with international and regional best practices, is important and could have contributed to strengthened reforms.

Project Number: 34022-013
Project Name: Secondary Education Support Project
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Design flexibility, accommodating changes for better alignment with emerging development objectives, improved implementation and contributed to reaching the desired results. Clear and precise documentation regarding when and what changed, and how the project goal, outcomes, and output were revised and embedded in new modalities, should be a critical element of this mind set.

Project Number: 34022-013
Project Name: Secondary Education Support Project
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The need for better planning and coordination between all ministries and agencies that have a potential stake in a project's outputs. In the case of this project, NODES can be of relevance and use to the training and education programs offered and governed by various ministries and agencies - e.g., Ministry of Education, Vocational Training Authority.

Project Number: 33251-013
Project Name: Distance Education Modernization Project
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An important lesson regards the nature of the courses that were offered and if they were the most appropriate ones for an online distance-learning platform.

Project Number: 33251-013
Project Name: Distance Education Modernization Project
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Another lesson arises from the novelty and innovation of the project - a higher priority should have been placed on social marketing and awareness raising among potential partner institutions and students, to ensure broad-based demand and a strong supply of market- oriented courses. There is great potential for self-sustainability in this model if its management is outsourced or it is transformed into a corporate entity, but inclusion of social marketing will be key to its success.

Project Number: 33251-013
Project Name: Distance Education Modernization Project
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The project involved the establishment of an entirely new platform of learning, with investments in hardware and software and including creation of partnerships with institutions that were to develop their course content into online distance learning format. This constituted a major step toward a new concept of learning. There is a risk that the system will eventually collapse unless it is put on a sound business and strategic footing in the near future.

Project Number: 33251-013
Project Name: Distance Education Modernization Project
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