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Lesson
No new lessons.

Project Number: 38074-013
Project Name: Kashkadarya and Navoi Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project
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If this project is to be replicated elsewhere, (i) group mobilization, (ii) social preparation by facilitators who come from within the communities, and (iii) downloading of funds that fosters full accountability by all recipients are key ingredients that must be included in its design and format.

Project Number: 34112-013
Project Name: Poor Farmers’ Income Improvement through Innovation Project
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Without proper monitoring and evaluation with baseline data, targets, and reported results, the achievement of intended public health impacts by a project like this might occur but will be impossible to demonstrate.

Project Number: 35496-013
Project Name: Western Uzbekistan Rural Water Supply Project
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The lack of an appraisal mission may have contributed to insufficient attention to both key aspects of project design and to ensuring borrower ownership. This is in relation to the decision by ADB to waive an appraisal missions.

Project Number: 35496-013
Project Name: Western Uzbekistan Rural Water Supply Project
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Reduce implementation delays and ensuring that water supply networks have raw water to distribute and uninterrupted power to pump it.

Project Number: 35496-013
Project Name: Western Uzbekistan Rural Water Supply Project
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Pay attention to broader issues of water resource management.

Project Number: 35496-013
Project Name: Western Uzbekistan Rural Water Supply Project
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No new lessons.

Project Number: 34234-013
Project Name: Rural Area Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project
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No new lessons.

Project Number: 31212-013, 31212-023
Project Name: Agriculture Sector Development Program and Project
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No new lessons.

Project Number: 32193-013
Project Name: Northwest Crop Diversification Project
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The consulting services for project implementation designed during project preparation did not meet the needs during implementation. This usually happens because needs change over time. To avoid having to undertake contract variations to correct this balance, an approach used in European Union contracts would have allowed greater flexibility; bidders for consulting services are typically evaluated on a small number of long-term key experts; while short-term expertise is not defined in the bidding but decided upon during implementation based on agreed work plans and government demands.

Project Number: 35289-013
Project Name: Sanjiang Plain Wetlands Protection Project
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Lesson
The steering committee established under the project effectively acted as an inter-agency working committee, with authorization from and representation across various sectors such as land, water, fisheries, and agriculture to coordinate wetland protection efforts. To ensure coordination on inter-sector activities in future projects, such a committee or similar agency should be established before project start-up.

Project Number: 35289-013
Project Name: Sanjiang Plain Wetlands Protection Project
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The most successful elements of the project were those that had been discussed with the relevant authorities at an early stage so that plans developed under the project could feed into government plans. This provided a lasting and replicable impact from the project. Examples are the work with the water authorities on water allocation for the nature reserves, and the work with the tourism authorities on ecotourism development.

Project Number: 35289-013
Project Name: Sanjiang Plain Wetlands Protection Project
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Lesson
To protect and restore wetlands, strong political support, including funding for nature reserves, is important. To disseminate lessons learned more widely and to help high-level decision making, executing agencies must publish policy briefs.

Project Number: 35289-013
Project Name: Sanjiang Plain Wetlands Protection Project
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Monitoring methods and frequencies need to be defined and agreed upon by the government and ADB at the beginning of a project, and followed during implementation by the executing or implementing agencies, to ensure the reliability and replicability of the monitoring data and the effectiveness of the project completion evaluation.

Project Number: 35289-013
Project Name: Sanjiang Plain Wetlands Protection Project
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Performance targets and indicators for impact, outcome, and outputs should be realistic and measurable through local efforts, particularly when a target or an indicator has a global perspective. Baseline indicators and targets for project performance, including environmental management, should be developed during project preparation.

Project Number: 35289-013
Project Name: Sanjiang Plain Wetlands Protection Project
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