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This relates to the baseline data that was missing in the project. The lack of basic data as the benchmark for evaluation has caused difficulties in assessing the project’s achievements; hence, the evaluation was mainly based on qualitative data.

Project Number: 40049-013, 40049-012
Project Name: Rural Basic 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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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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Positive outcomes in terms of cost and quality were associated with using market prices in cost estimates for civil works and involving local communities in the management of works. This fact was appreciated by the government, which valued ADB's flexibility in this aspect of the project's operation. Escalation of civil works costs has been a major delaying factor in numerous ADB-funded projects in Viet Nam.

Project Number: 28309-013
Project Name: Upper Secondary Education Development Project
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The project could have avoided some implementation difficulties had the project manager been appointed earlier and assisted with the design of project details. Compared with the size of the project, the consultant services package was too small. The national project implementation unit (NPIU) had to take on too much of the work.

Project Number: 28309-013
Project Name: Upper Secondary Education Development Project
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There was some concern that the feasibility study report prepared by Ministry of Education and Training (MOET), which was the official appraisal document on the government side, was not sufficiently consistent with the report and recommendation of the President. Considerable discrepancies between the two key documents, due to limited communication between MOET and the project preparatory technical assistance (TA) consultants, were observed.

Project Number: 28309-013
Project Name: Upper Secondary Education Development Project
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The design of capacity building activities needs to be better structured with a model defining how knowledge and skills will be transferred and including pre- and post-training assessments to measure impact. Without a structure, capacity building activities are reduced to the number of persons trained.

Project Number: 33304-013
Project Name: Second Lower Secondary Education Development Project
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The procurement capacity of the executing and implementing agencies, as well as the context of the project, needs to be considered when determining procurement methods. Their procurement capacity needs to be developed in order for them to implement procurement methods and accurately follow procedures and guidelines. Tracking of project implementation becomes difficult if procurement documentation does not follow requirements.

Project Number: 33304-013
Project Name: Second Lower Secondary Education Development Project
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The recruitment of consultants by executing agencies remains time-consuming. This problem is not specific to the project, but common in all ADB-financed projects in Viet Nam. Delays in consultant recruitment result in delays in implementing the entire project. In the future, advance actions and project readiness filters should be applied to minimize start-up delays.

Project Number: 33304-013
Project Name: Second Lower Secondary Education Development Project
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