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The project yielded the following insights for similar, future community-driven development projects: (i) Inclusive involvement of community members in decision making and implementation of infrastructure projects is needed to ensure ownership and transparency. (ii) Community facilitators and consultants must be well selected so that only qualified and committed personnel are deployed to support communities in the empowerment process and on technical matters.

Project Number: 38385-013
Project Name: Rural Infrastructure Support to the PNPM Mandiri Project II
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Ambitious project design including diverse technical and geographic coverage combined with innovative project procedures can delay implementation until all implementing agencies fully understand the process. _x005F_x000D__x005F_x000D_Competitive bidding for agricultural research based on clear selection criteria that prioritize marginal areas and are formulated jointly by researchers and extension workers can lead to more user-responsive and demand-driven research, which also can be immediately extended to poor farmers.

Project Number: 36304-013
Project Name: Agriculture Science and Technology Project
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The participation of women improved project outcomes and gave them more opportunities in business, employment, skill development, marketing, and income generation.

Project Number: 33224-013
Project Name: Agribusiness Development
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The executing agencies should have had adequate capacity and experience in recruiting consultants to ensure timely availability of necessary consultant inputs. If necessary, advance actions should have been initiated to ensure the fielding of consultants in time.

Project Number: 33224-013
Project Name: Agribusiness Development
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The progress of value addition and supply chain development has been inadequate. The concept of value addition, supply chain management, and improved quality of products needs to be linked to export options, reduction of wastage, high quality standards, compliance with phytosanitary and public health standards, and an increased role of women at different levels of agribusiness development. There remains a need for continued support to women to enable them to diversify and scale up their enterprises, and gain access to upper levels of the value chain.

Project Number: 33224-013
Project Name: Agribusiness Development
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Agriculture marketing associations are not well-organized and federated to meet the needs of the fast-growing domestic agriculture market of Bangladesh.

Project Number: 33224-013
Project Name: Agribusiness Development
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The agriculture marketing subsector in Bangladesh is growing fast and requires public support for promotion, facilitation, legal and regulatory supports, and necessary infrastructure development and training. The future development of agriculture, agro-economy, and rural employment depends on the development of this subsector. There is a need for an appropriate and capable agribusiness development agency that can support future demand, which is now mandated to Department of Agricultural Marketing (DAM).

Project Number: 33224-013
Project Name: Agribusiness Development
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Small enterprises should have been made more rewarding in terms of financial returns on investment and employment opportunities compared to medium and large enterprises. Due to improvement of technology; efficient use of increased capital cost, operating cost, and cost of labor; and ability to meet need for higher efficiency and demand for high quality standards of produce in the market, medium to large agribusiness enterprises are staying in the competition.

Project Number: 33224-013
Project Name: Agribusiness Development
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Institutional arrangements. The project management office serves a critical coordinating function in executing urban development projects that involve implementing agencies from several sectors. A project management office with strong leadership, experience with ADB procedures, and good communication skills is desirable. The establishment of databases and monitoring mechanisms by each implementing agency early in the project is important.

Project Number: 37596-013
Project Name: Guangxi Nanning Urban Environmental Upgrading Project
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It is easy to overestimate the capacity needed to implement a project that is largely undertaking pilot activities and which also involves significant reforms. At all levels of involvement - executing agency, service providers, contractors, farmers' water user community members - capacity constraints affected project performance. In these circumstances, the project design was both overambitious (e.g., by not focusing on fewer subprojects from the outset) and not rigorous enough (in its analysis of the risks and assumptions inherent in many operations).

Project Number: 34379-013
Project Name: Northwest Irrigation Sector Project
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The use of prorated financing across the three sources of funds for all expenditure categories should be avoided. Adequate initial advances to imprest accounts should be provided to minimize pre-financing of loan activities through government temporary accounts. The fund flow mechanism adopted by Directorate General of Regional Development for regional activities should not be used in future projects.

Project Number: 32359-013
Project Name: Participatory Irrigation Sector Project
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The agricultural program was initially limited to classroom training, but adjusted to promote field level agriculture demonstrations and rehabilitation of tertiary irrigation canals. It was very successful and contributed to the high economic returns of the project.

Project Number: 32359-013
Project Name: Participatory Irrigation Sector Project
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Greater focus should be placed on O&M arrangements, which should be incorporated into the participatory irrigation management agreement with district governments. The Rencana Pengembangan dan Pengelolaan Irigasi (district irrigation management plan) is an effective planning mechanism that provides appropriate O&M for district systems using a needs-based budget approach.

Project Number: 32359-013
Project Name: Participatory Irrigation Sector Project
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Further support is needed at district and provincial level to ensure water users association and water users association federation develop into effective and sustainable organizations. Sufficient district and provincial level resources should be allocated to ensure that project gains are sustained and enhanced.

Project Number: 32359-013
Project Name: Participatory Irrigation Sector Project
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The project was transformative in developing the national system for participatory irrigation management and development. In most project provinces, this approach is now applied to the government's own provincial and district programs.

Project Number: 32359-013
Project Name: Participatory Irrigation Sector Project
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