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Lesson
The move of smallholder farmers toward commercialization requires tailored infrastructure. The NRSLLDP, through the VIF, supported CDD-related infrastructure (such as village meeting halls) at the provincial, district, and local levels. Livestock development and commercialization endeavors, on the other hand, will require new infrastructure to address impediments such as access to water, animal shelters, medicinal supplies, cold-chain, access roads, and market infrastructure.

Project Number: 35297-013
Project Name: Northern Region Sustainable Livelihoods Through Livestock Development Project (A Joint Evaluation)
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Sustainable access to savings and credit is essential. In the future, savings and credit instruments should be designed around actual farmer needs in terms of timing, amount, duration and repayment and collateral requirements. A key decision for IFAD, ADB, and the government will be to agree on a partner—for example, the Bank of Laos—to implement the rural finance component of the NSLCP transparently and professionally.

Project Number: 35297-013
Project Name: Northern Region Sustainable Livelihoods Through Livestock Development Project (A Joint Evaluation)
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LPGs can be a conduit to share experiences, exchange knowledge, and gain access to inputs and improved market opportunities and prices. Unfortunately, the NRSLLDP was rather short-sighted and did not seek to develop groups to access or provide benefits to farmers throughout the production chain (from inputs, to husbandry, to selling). The project also dropped the access-to-market component.

Project Number: 35297-013
Project Name: Northern Region Sustainable Livelihoods Through Livestock Development Project (A Joint Evaluation)
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The transition to commercial agriculture requires extensive training and empowerment of smallholder farmers. The NRSLLDP aimed to provide farmers with animals to be integrated into their semi-subsistence livelihoods. These additional animals were stores of wealth that were sold occasionally to smooth consumption (e.g., school fees) or support other investments (e.g., motorbikes). With a commercialized approach, the focus is on maximizing a stream of income over a sustained period. This will require substantial changes in the production, marketing, selling, and reinvesting cycle.

Project Number: 35297-013
Project Name: Northern Region Sustainable Livelihoods Through Livestock Development Project (A Joint Evaluation)
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Overreliance on the private sector for power generation investments when there are structural issues in the distribution sector that may not result in desired outcomes. Financial viability and cost recovery in the sector are important considerations for private sector investments in power generation in the absence of opportunities to sell electricity outside the state.

Project Number: 29473-013, 29473-023
Project Name: Madhya Pradesh Power Sector Development Program [Loans 1868/1869]
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Restoring financial viability of the power sector in Madhya Pradesh requires a holistic approach encompassing technical, institutional, and governance measures. The Madhya Pradesh power sector has been suffering from structural problems such as persistently high level of ATC losses, increasing cost of generation and power purchase, and limited scope of tariff increase as industrial tariffs have already reached the cost of captive power generation.

Project Number: 29473-013, 29473-023
Project Name: Madhya Pradesh Power Sector Development Program [Loans 1868/1869]
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Regulatory and institutional reforms alone are important, but they will not result in improved performance in the absence of accountability and incentives. The SDP was based on the premise that regulatory and institutional reforms will improve the performance of sector entities. Although the regulatory and institutional reforms were implemented as intended, the sector entities except for MPTransco showed no significant improvement in performance.

Project Number: 29473-013, 29473-023
Project Name: Madhya Pradesh Power Sector Development Program [Loans 1868/1869]
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