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Baseline data are important. During conflicts, data change: infrastructure is destroyed and people are displaced. Monitoring surveys are difficult to conduct because of restricted access. The project management unit failed to expand the management information system to assess subproject impacts, the absence of which made postproject evaluation difficult.

Project Number: 36601-013, 36601-023, 38111-013
Project Name: North East Community Restoration and Development Project
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Most contracts were relatively small and within the competence levels of local contractors, especially relevant in the difficult conditions for access and supply that applied during and after the conflicts. Use of local contractors, instead of outside companies, strengthened local ownership and avoided aggravating community and ethnic tensions.

Project Number: 36601-013, 36601-023, 38111-013
Project Name: North East Community Restoration and Development Project
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Implementation is difficult in the fluid security conditions of conflicts and their aftermath. However, staff members were motivated by the evident need for their services, as well as by pressure from both sides in the conflict to address basic infrastructure in all areas.

Project Number: 36601-013, 36601-023, 38111-013
Project Name: North East Community Restoration and Development Project
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The North East Community Restoration and Development implementation structure, including the delegation of responsibility to a provincial project management unit and the inclusion of all stakeholders in the provincial project coordination committee subproject selection process, was effective in implementing restoration activities. It provided a model for coordination between central, provincial, district, divisional, and local government, and encouraged cooperation with other agencies and minimized duplication of agencies' work.

Project Number: 36601-013, 36601-023, 38111-013
Project Name: North East Community Restoration and Development Project
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Raising awareness of end-users is an important component of projects that streamline government administration. It helps increase demand for the systems, reduce misinformation, and support the overall change. The funding allocation to public awareness campaigns under the project could have been higher.

Project Number: 41544-072
Project Name: Investment Climate Improvement Program System Support Project
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Information technologgy training for government agencies' staff was expensive. It may be more efficient in future procurement plans to have a separate package for training in basic information and communication technology, as there are many institutions in the country that provide these services.

Project Number: 41544-072
Project Name: Investment Climate Improvement Program System Support Project
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Projects with significant information technology (IT) components require specific expertise in designing the software's technical specifications and bidding documents, and monitoring a software developer's work. The terms of reference for IT experts should have required candidates to have minimum experience in writing technical specifications for software development that were successfully tendered.

Project Number: 41544-072
Project Name: Investment Climate Improvement Program System Support Project
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It is unlikely that civil servants in the Kyrgyz Republic have the necessary incentives to manage complex projects as unremunerated, part-time project managers, even if they are highly competent. It is also unlikely that public procurement processes can be managed without specialized procurement skills. A fully dedicated project manager and a procurement specialist should have been appointed to the project.

Project Number: 41544-072
Project Name: Investment Climate Improvement Program System Support Project
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Implementation of a single window for foreign trade is an extremely complex process that requires a long-term commitment and high-level support. It also requires continuous dialogue with all concerned government agencies to lower resistance to change, including by middle managers and operational staff. The project should have had a longer implementation period and should have included a stronger communication and change management component. A project administration manual and a design and monitoring framework (DMF) at an earlier stage could have helped expedite implementation.

Project Number: 41544-072
Project Name: Investment Climate Improvement Program System Support Project
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The dilemma of this project is the lack of achievement and partial achievement of some outcome indicators, while planned outputs were mostly delivered. Ensuring the direct link between supported activities, outputs and outcome, and relevance of their indicators is critical.

Project Number: 39304-012
Project Name: Second Education Project
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Better infrastructure directly increases attendance rates, and brings significant savings from improved heating and energy efficiency of buildings. The inclusion of maintenance of supplied equipment and training for relevant staff as part of the supply contract is an effective tool to ensure equipment sustainability and ongoing effectiveness. Thorough assessment of compliance with qualification requirements during consultant recruitment can prevent unnecessary problems and delays during project implementation.

Project Number: 39304-012
Project Name: Second Education Project
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Provision of learning and teaching materials (LTMs) for more than one grade should be funded to effectively launch a new curriculum. For textbook bids, good practice involves achieving continuity of content and approach by bidding subject textbooks for a series of grades, i.e., mathematics LTMs for grades 1-4 have to be developed by the same team of authors. A shortage of LTMs and poor teacher capacity can undermine the whole curriculum reform process.

Project Number: 39304-012
Project Name: Second Education Project
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Curriculum reform requires strong government ownership and commitment in terms of counterpart financing and policy changes required to support the reform. Improving national school education outcomes requires adequate time and funding. Sufficient teacher capacity building activities, learning and teaching materials, and appropriate learning environments should accompany the curriculum reform.

Project Number: 39304-012
Project Name: Second Education Project
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he use of consultant support with an evolving design requires flexibility. Therefore, packaging all consultant support in large lots through firms is not the best option. Institutional capacity development strategies should consider twinning between Bangladeshi and international institutions to developed capacity in the Directorate of Primary Education (DPE) and other local institutions. The international institutions can continue supporting the DPE after program completion.

Project Number: 30216-013
Project Name: Second Primary Education Development Program
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Balancing the combined roles of development partners, as agency staff providing oversight on behalf of the agency and as experts providing technical advice, requires constant attention and reflection to ensure that the government remains in the lead during implementation and that development partners get sufficient information to exercise oversight.

Project Number: 30216-013
Project Name: Second Primary Education Development Program
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