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Possible control groups need to be identified to measure benefits attributable to the project.

Project Number: 42080-013
Project Name: Strengthening Water Management and Irrigation Systems Rehabilitation Project
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It is important to have a clear results chain logic when designing the DMF to extract valuable lessons from the project.

Project Number: 42080-013
Project Name: Strengthening Water Management and Irrigation Systems Rehabilitation Project
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The introduction of participatory approaches and the transfer of management of large irrigation schemes to irrigation management companies can promote sustainable irrigation services.

Project Number: 42080-013
Project Name: Strengthening Water Management and Irrigation Systems Rehabilitation Project
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Valid control groups should be identified, to the extent possible, to properly measure benefits attributable to the project.

Project Number: 38660-023
Project Name: Ningxia Integrated Ecosystem and Agricultural Development Project
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It is important to have a clear results chain to have a robust design, effectively implement projects, and extract valuable lessons from the project.

Project Number: 38660-023
Project Name: Ningxia Integrated Ecosystem and Agricultural Development Project
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Adequately managed protected areas can generate significant economic benefits to local communities.

Project Number: 38660-023
Project Name: Ningxia Integrated Ecosystem and Agricultural Development Project
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Sustainable resource management requires actions beyond the development of a regulatory framework; such actions include institutional coordination among different agencies, adequate resources to promote resource conservation, and capacity building and training.

Project Number: 38660-023
Project Name: Ningxia Integrated Ecosystem and Agricultural Development Project
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A more cautious effort should be exerted during the project design stage to ascertain the doable results.

Project Number: 38301-013
Project Name: Dryland Sustainable Agriculture Project
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More attention should be devoted during the project preparation stage to setting up appropriate DMF performance targets.

Project Number: 38301-013
Project Name: Dryland Sustainable Agriculture Project
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Responsibility for quality control of project outputs should be clearly defined among the loan implementation support consultant and executing agency. The project management and implementation support consultant (PMISC)

Project Number: 42080-013
Project Name: Strengthening Water Management and Irrigation Systems Rehabilitation Project
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Project procurement plan should be developed in close consultation with the executing agency and resident mission staff in charge of project implementation, considering the lessons under other projects, and be flexibly adjusted. Time-consuming recruitment of many consultants along with unsuitable selection methods resulted in implementation delays. For future projects of similar nature and scope, suitable procurement packaging and selection methods should be set up based on the requirements for project progress and capacity of the EA and/or IAs.

Project Number: 42080-013
Project Name: Strengthening Water Management and Irrigation Systems Rehabilitation Project
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Advance actions were one of the measures to reduce project startup delay. However, there seems to be inadequate clarity on implementing advance actions in the government rules, and a good mechanism to make the subproject civil works ready for execution before or right after the project becomes effective. Currently, government control over the provincial debt ceiling and implementation of relevant budget management policies also contribute to startup delays and, therefore, limit project readiness.

Project Number: 42080-013
Project Name: Strengthening Water Management and Irrigation Systems Rehabilitation Project
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A coherent design and monitoring framework (DMF) is necessary as a basis for project planning, monitoring, and evaluation. The DMF for this project made evaluation a more difficult exercise than it should have been and weakened design relevance. The outcome indicator is too technical, unfamiliar to the executing agency, and was difficult to reevaluate.

Project Number: 42080-013
Project Name: Strengthening Water Management and Irrigation Systems Rehabilitation Project
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Having a strong, experienced executing agency was important to the success of this project. The professional, permanent and technical central project office (CPO) added value to project implementation and the quality of project outputs. However, for new similar projects, these implementation arrangements, where a central ministry such as Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) work as the executing agency, is in principle no longer possible in accordance with the new government policy.

Project Number: 42080-013
Project Name: Strengthening Water Management and Irrigation Systems Rehabilitation Project
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Safeguards policy implementation is strengthened by proactive interventions to empower women through their participation, voice and leadership. This has been the experience of organizing consultations for vulnerable women-headed households during the land acquisition and resettlement due diligence process and those affected by (post) resettlement.

Project Number: 42080-013
Project Name: Strengthening Water Management and Irrigation Systems Rehabilitation Project
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