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Well-conceived and structured TA associated with the program addressed the obstacles presented by system inefficiencies and limited capacity. Survey data and other forms of monitoring can be subject to local manipulation by incumbents and unintended beneficiaries. A related problem is rent-seeking in local agencies and the government can similarly distort monitored data, and misdirect public transfer payments and other benefits.

Project Number: 40003-013
Project Name: Poverty Reduction and Millennium Development Goals Acceleration Program
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The complication arose from the government’s decision, during SP2, to inject the other half of the anticipated policy output units into the subprogram, by extending it by another 5 months. This put considerable work and budget pressure on the project team. And that may have been a factor in the inability to fully achieve several output actions in time for this report.

Project Number: 40003-013
Project Name: Poverty Reduction and Millennium Development Goals Acceleration Program
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The interim restructuring of the program, at the request of the government, lowered the total program cost to the government. It also put greater emphasis on the program’s design features than on embedding the program deeper within public institutions. This may have been fiscally expedient but will have long-term costs that are hard to measure now. The government may have employed the program’s national consultants after it decided to fund SP2 and SP3, but ADB is unlikely to receive information on the results.

Project Number: 40003-013
Project Name: Poverty Reduction and Millennium Development Goals Acceleration Program
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Better coordination with Australian Aid was an explicit part of the PRMAP from the beginning. Adjustments to ADB’s country strategy and the design of follow-on programs may be better informed if there is sharing of information during and after each intervention.

Project Number: 40003-013
Project Name: Poverty Reduction and Millennium Development Goals Acceleration Program
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No additional lessons

Project Number: 35174-013, 35174-022, 35174-023, 35174-032
Project Name: Education Sector Program (Subprograms I–III)
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Do not assume the automatic translation of inputs into outcomes. International experience has documented that increasing inputs is only weakly correlated with improved learning outcomes.

Project Number: 40347-013
Project Name: Secondary Education Sector Development Program
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Take hard evidence more seriously in the analysis of what drives learning outcomes.

Project Number: 40347-013
Project Name: Secondary Education Sector Development Program
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No additional lessons

Project Number: 39293-013
Project Name: Education for Knowledge Society Project
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Broader reflections on the experiences of the three development partners during their joint implementation of this ambitious program, and the implications for future, similar efforts would have been valuable. The considerable time lost due to misunderstandings among the partners at the beginning of the project, for example, might have been avoided if early agreement had been reached on how to deal with the different accountability mechanisms and requirements of the partners.

Project Number: 34285-013
Project Name: Education Sector Project II
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Advance contracting enables timely startup.

Project Number: 40347-013
Project Name: Secondary Education Sector Development Program
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Targeting requires an integrated assessment of key socioeconomic indicators.

Project Number: 40347-013
Project Name: Secondary Education Sector Development Program
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Full compliance to covenants enhances program performance.

Project Number: 35174-082
Project Name: School Sector Program
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Implementation of reforms takes time.

Project Number: 35174-082
Project Name: School Sector Program
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Dedicated institutional arrangements facilitate the timely implementation of national reform programs.

Project Number: 35174-082
Project Name: School Sector Program
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Capacity development requires coordinated institutional and funding mechanisms.

Project Number: 35174-082
Project Name: School Sector Program
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