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Need to undertake prior and proper due diligence on the technical and resource capabilities and commitment ofpartner institutions. This would determine their suitability when ascertaining the risks and sustainability of their involvement.

Project Number: 40046-013
Project Name: Khatlon Province Flood Risk Management Project
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Ensure that all requirements for project implementation should be in place early on and, hence, immediate steps can be taken to avoid delays in future projects, which was the key issue during the first 2 years of project implementation.

Project Number: 35183-013
Project Name: Sustainable Aquaculture Development for Food Security and Poverty Reduction Project
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The agriculture science and technology adopted an expanded project structure involving over 25 project implementing units. It procured goods and services at the local level to overcome the challenge of implementing the innovative features in the existing public procurement system. A lesson from this project shows that while a high number of implementing units is generally discouraged in ADB project design, it may have been a success factor in this particular project.

Project Number: 36304-013
Project Name: Agriculture Science and Technology Project
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Coordination with like-minded donors and other stakeholders on a regular basis helps in improving project implementation, harmonizing approaches, eliminating duplication, creating synergies, and resolving implementation issues.

Project Number: 34306-013
Project Name: Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women Project
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Intersectionality is an important element to be addressed in projects promoting women's empowerment and gender equality. Women are a heterogeneous group and their diversity based on caste, ethnicity, religion, region, and language are critical factors contributing to their abilities to benefit from and contribute to the overall project implementation.

Project Number: 34306-013
Project Name: Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women Project
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In order to reduce the gap in overall human development and gender equity indexes, the targeted interventions on women's empowerment are still highly relevant in Nepal. VDC (village development committee) clustering in the project area based on geographic contiguity and similarity should be considered when selecting project sites in remote areas. Doing so can improve staff mobility, service delivery, monitoring, and supervision.

Project Number: 34306-013
Project Name: Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women Project
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Multiple and interrelated women's issues are best addressed through integrated approaches for creating better synergy.

Project Number: 34306-013
Project Name: Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women Project
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The project may be able to secure the involvement of larger processors and traders by making large financial contributions to their business plans, as smaller contributions are not helpful.

Project Number: 34308-022
Project Name: Commercial Agriculture Development Project
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Women and disadvantaged groups often do not have enough time to participate fully in project implementation and capacity development activities and thus benefit from the project. Designing the project to include targeted interventions such as intense mobilization, training, and the facilitation of access to finance, extension services, and inputs optimizes the possibility of visible improvements to their livelihoods.

Project Number: 34308-022
Project Name: Commercial Agriculture Development Project
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Enterprises operated by farmer groups, especially those composed of women, the poor, and disadvantaged people, should be provided with refresher skills training, access to finance, follow-up services, and ways to maintain market links to sustain operations and benefits. The provision of land lease financing serves as a good way to reach poor and landless families by helping them access productive resources and benefit from commercial agriculture.

Project Number: 34308-022
Project Name: Commercial Agriculture Development Project
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The timely design and execution of a results-based monitoring system is an important means of collecting and reporting project outputs and outcomes in a disaggregated way during project implementation, and carrying out an objective impact evaluation upon completion.

Project Number: 34308-022
Project Name: Commercial Agriculture Development Project
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Designing the project with mechanisms for communication and coordination between existing government institutions in project districts and project management structures can facilitate smooth project implementation and monitoring. This also ensures that sector offices will provide beneficiaries with follow-up services after project completion.

Project Number: 34308-022
Project Name: Commercial Agriculture Development Project
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Ensure sufficient consultation during project preparation. DFID's Department for International Development [United Kingdom]) decision to reduce substantial portions of its funding during project implementation indicated the need for greater consultation among cofinanciers, borrower, and other stakeholders during project preparation.

Project Number: 36224-013
Project Name: Second Rural Infrastructure Improvement Project
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Use advance actions. The project experienced delays of 24 months for several reasons. The absence of borrower's advance action largely contributed to these start-up delays and affected project implementation. ADB has been emphasizing this issue through its country and tripartite portfolio review meetings, and has included in most ADB-assisted projects provisions for advance action for selection of consultants, selection of subprojects, stakeholder consultation, and preparatory work for land acquisition and resettlement, if applicable.

Project Number: 36224-013
Project Name: Second Rural Infrastructure Improvement Project
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Plan and coordinate preliminary activities well to minimize delays. The executing agency needs to pursue a set of well-planned and concerted actions to ensure timely completion of all critical activities for identification and appraisal of subprojects; government approval of the initial environmental examination, environmental management plan, and resettlement plan as appropriate; recruitment of consultants; streamlining the procurement of civil works contracts; and continuous cooperation among the executing agency and LGIs (local government institutions).

Project Number: 36224-013
Project Name: Second Rural Infrastructure Improvement Project
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