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When functions and responsibilities are decentralized, policy dialogue with the concerned local authorities during project processing is just as important as dialogue at the central level.Although ULBs in Bangladesh depend on LGD, they enjoy some autonomy. The ULBs rapidly realized the benefit of better governance and financial management and these components were timely implemented. However, it took longer for the ULBs to appreciate the benefits of investments in sanitation and food safety funded by the project loan.

Project Number: 39305-013
Project Name: Urban Public and Environmental Health Sector Development Program
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Lesson
In a project involving several ministries, the choice of the executing agency (or agencies) and the role of each ministry must be carefully assessed and discussed with the government and all concerned ministries.

Project Number: 39305-013
Project Name: Urban Public and Environmental Health Sector Development Program
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Project preparation should have included better articulation of the need or logic for integrating a program loan and a project loan in a sector development program (SDP). Policy dialogue, which is essential to clearly establish an understanding among the executing agencies that policy reforms and project loan financed investments are interlinked, should have been undertaken; however, this was missing in this SDP. Two separate loans delivered in sequence may have been preferable and more manageable.

Project Number: 39305-013
Project Name: Urban Public and Environmental Health Sector Development Program
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Close consultation with stakeholders during project design and implementation is especially needed to address the difficulties commonly arising from finding appropriate sites for solid waste and medical waste management facilities in urban projects. Due to lack of land and higher costs of construction than estimated at appraisal, it was not possible to construct the integrated waste treatment facilities, slaughterhouses, and medical waste management facilities planned under this program. These components were eventually dropped.

Project Number: 39305-013
Project Name: Urban Public and Environmental Health Sector Development Program 
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Overall project success depends to a large extent on the successful implementation of risk mitigation measures carefully identified at appraisal. Weak institutional arrangements and lack of ownership saddled the implementation of this program. A lack of capacity and coordination among different agencies compounded the difficulties. The difficulties could have been minimized or avoided through the timely implementation of risk mitigation measures drawn at appraisal. The measures should be based on a thorough assessment of all potential risks throughout the project period.

Project Number: 39305-013
Project Name: Urban Public and Environmental Health Sector Development Program 
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No new lessons

Project Number: 38603-013
Project Name: Sustainable Cotton Subsector Project
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More detailed understanding of legal requirements for and better supervision of arrangements for the establishment and operation of project-financed assets by private- sector entities is necessary to remove the risk that such assets may not operate effectively or operate in ways not intended._x005F_x000D__x005F_x000D_Expecting farmer organizations to want to operate such facilities as seed cleaning plants, as the proposal of the major change in scope and implementation arrangements did, was overly optimistic.

Project Number: 38603-013
Project Name: Sustainable Cotton Subsector Project
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Lesson
This validation also considers lessons that can be drawn from the project relating to the problems of establishing viable private sector institutions in a transition economy. For instance, RBAC and the MTP were intended to be self-sufficient by project end. In practice, their ability to charge fees or recover loans has been limited, and neither organization is likely to be sustainable without continuing support from the government. The WUAs likewise are only able to collect 20% to 30% of their fees.

Project Number: 30458-013
Project Name: Ak Altin Agricultural Development Project
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There may be wider lessons that can be drawn about donor assistance that would effect major policy reforms in transition economies. While donors are keen to free up agriculture, and the government in principle agrees, it is nonetheless extremely cautious about reforms. The government continues to operate at its own pace, and is almost immune to international pressure. Thus, until a reform roadmap has been defined and fully endorsed by all stakeholders, including the upper levels of government, little is likely to be achieved.

Project Number: 30458-013
Project Name: Ak Altin Agricultural Development Project
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Lesson
There is a need for closer ADB involvement in critical early stages and greater rigor in government reporting.

Project Number: 37046-013
Project Name: Agriculture Sector Program [Loan 2083-AFG]
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Lesson
During project implementation, key project officers in ADB and the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources changed, contributing to delayed decision making and project implementation. A new project officer should take over the project administration and management with adequate time, and ADB should ensure that the previous project officer accompanies a new project officer on mission to ensure a seamless transition in project administration.

Project Number: 30458-013
Project Name: Ak Altin Agricultural Development Project
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The project completion mission noted that some farmers interviewed were unaware of their obligations to the government for on-farm rehabilitation cost recovery, despite having signed a repayment agreement with each water users' association and the government before rehabilitation works. This suggests that farmers had limited awareness of the cost-recovery requirements and that the farmers who were not willing to pay for rehabilitation might have been included in on-farm irrigation and drainage (I&D) systems.

Project Number: 30458-013
Project Name: Ak Altin Agricultural Development Project
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In general, something as substantial and sensitive as cotton and wheat (C&W) quota system reform cannot be completed within a short time frame and should be undertaken at the national level. Although the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources was responsible for implementing the C&W quota system, reform required inputs from other government departments. Such policy reforms are better accomplished through vehicles other than projects, and certainly not a single pilot investment project in one district or region.

Project Number: 30458-013
Project Name: Ak Altin Agricultural Development Project
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Lesson
Except for special circumstances, such as when a pilot project is small or the executing agency is experienced in project implementation, the project design should be simplified to ease implementation. Generally, the focus should be on a single sector with a minimum number of types of measures. Although the project focused on rural development and agriculture, it comprised different measures (rural business strengthening, irrigation and drainage system enhancement, and cotton and wheat quota system reform) as a result of incorporating most of the challenges encountered in the sector.

Project Number: 30458-013
Project Name: Ak Altin Agricultural Development Project
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