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There were clear benefits to the involvement of the resident mission in supervision due to closer involvement and understanding of the local environment. In addition, project documents revealed that review missions in the early years of the project were not adequately apprised, by the PMU or consultants, of the seriousness of the project’s problems. The lesson from this is the need for (i) in-depth analysis by missions, and (ii) the establishment of mechanisms for consultants to prepare realistic reports to the PMU and ADB.

Project Number: 31197-013
Project Name: Community-Based Infrastructure Services Sector Project
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The Rural Microfinance Development Center (RMDC)-supported microfinance institutions (MFIs) were successful in delivering loans and ensuring timely repayment in areas with enough opportunities to earn daily wages. However, for areas without such opportunities, farmer cooperatives should be developed to deliver loans. These cooperatives have low overheads and function even in adverse geographic and political conditions because of their community ownership.

Project Number: 35170-013
Project Name: Community Livestock Development Project
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Effective implementation of laws and regulations on operation of slaughterhouses coupled with a consumer awareness program are essential to improve hygienic meat processing and marketing, and optimize benefits from project support.

Project Number: 35170-013
Project Name: Community Livestock Development Project
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Public-private partnership is an effective approach to promote private sector participation in the livestock subsector. This has been demonstrated by the successful operation of project-assisted meat and dairy shops, abattoirs, paravets, and veterinarians.

Project Number: 35170-013
Project Name: Community Livestock Development Project
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Privatization of public sector enterprises is not sufficient to achieve growth in the dairy industry. Strong links with milk-producing farmers and cooperatives are needed to ensure uninterrupted milk supplies to milk processors, achieve full capacity, and maximize investment benefits.

Project Number: 35170-013
Project Name: Community Livestock Development Project
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Poverty mapping was a useful tool to determine the beneficiaries and suitable ways to involve them in project activities. However, to include women and the disadvantaged in commercial processing and marketing enterprises that require more resources and better skills, alternative approaches are needed, such as organizing skills training in their areas of interest, easing access to institutional loans on a group guarantee basis, and establishing links with marketing institutions.

Project Number: 35170-013
Project Name: Community Livestock Development Project
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The selection of capable nongovernment organizations (NGOs) was critical to ensuring effective delivery of services and for sustaining project activities.

Project Number: 32193-013
Project Name: Northwest Crop Diversification Project
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Post-project monitoring and evaluation systems need to be designed for the project during the planning phase to ensure ongoing innovation and sustainability of the project impacts.

Project Number: 32193-013
Project Name: Northwest Crop Diversification Project
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All project components should have been based on need assessment. This was particularly true of the activities for agribusiness credit piloting and infrastructure for marketing and the facilities at the horticulture training and demonstration centers (HTDCs). Failure to assess needs and conditions for these components adequately meant that the outputs were not used fully or successfully.

Project Number: 32193-013
Project Name: Northwest Crop Diversification Project
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To ensure that the markets to be built under the project would be successful, the project needed to seek the participation and take into account the opinions of local stakeholders when selecting the sites for market construction.

Project Number: 32193-013
Project Name: Northwest Crop Diversification Project
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The issues of land ownership and operational responsibilities needed to be clearly settled between public ministries and departments before the project embarked on market construction. This was particularly important for revenue-earning infrastructure like markets. More time than was envisaged at appraisal was needed to form output-oriented farmers' marketing groups (FMGs) and to put them into operation.

Project Number: 32193-013
Project Name: Northwest Crop Diversification Project
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Project delays could have been reduced significantly by identifying and deploying qualified staff during project preparation, keeping those staff throughout implementation, obtaining early government approval for the project, and taking advance action on the recruitment of consultants before the loan agreement was signed.

Project Number: 32193-013
Project Name: Northwest Crop Diversification Project
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No new lessons

Project Number: 38447-013
Project Name: Rural Enterprise Modernization Project
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As the first mountain-traversing expressway in Sichuan Province, the project expressway crossed geo-technically difficult and complicated terrain. To cope with various technical difficulties and challenges, Sichuan Provincial Transportation Department (SPTD) and SPECL initiated 14 technical studies associated with the project expressway's construction. Of the 14 studies, two were awarded state patents and eight were acknowledged as achievements at the provincial and ministry level.

Project Number: 32334-013
Project Name: Southern Sichuan Roads Development Project
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The project cost amounted to CNY7.162 billion, which is CNY1.272 billion less than the CNY8.434 billion approved at appraisal. Project contract management was effective and efficient, focusing on key contract items including key personnel, equipment, scheduling, construction quality, safety, environmental protection, and avoiding corruption. Accumulated knowledge and experience were shared and disseminated. SPECL dispatched regular and special inspection missions during construction and issued orders, regulations, and special notices to contractors as needed.

Project Number: 32334-013
Project Name: Southern Sichuan Roads Development Project
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