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More attention should be given to operation and maintenance (O&M) planning and management, including awareness of resource requirements for O&M measures and sound financial and reporting systems.

Project Number: 34152-013
Project Name: Community Water Services and Health Project
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Community facilitators and consultants must be qualified and committed; sufficient time should be allocated for community empowerment - ensuring that community members are sufficiently involved in prioritizing their needs, developing investment proposals, and making decisions.

Project Number: 34152-013
Project Name: Community Water Services and Health Project
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Involving beneficiaries at all stages of planning and implementation of upgrading activities and promoting inclusive community empowerment are critical in ensuring pro-poor investments and sustainability.

Project Number: 34152-013
Project Name: Community Water Services and Health Project
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Indicators to measure the achievement of project outcome need to carefully consider the scope of all activities carried out under all outputs.

Project Number: 34152-013
Project Name: Community Water Services and Health Project
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Project management has significant roles in achieving project objectives. The weak project management and insufficient capacity of project stakeholders prevented the delivery of optimum project benefits.

Project Number: 34152-013
Project Name: Community Water Services and Health Project
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Covering a large number of remote villages spread over four provinces may not be an effective way to maximize the use of resources. The effectiveness of the investment in generating development impact, as well as project efficiency, would have improved in a focused geographic approach.

Project Number: 34152-013
Project Name: Community Water Services and Health Project
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Covenants should be realistic and achievable to ensure sufficient control and quality of project implementation.

Project Number: 32249-013
Project Name: Community-Based Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project
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The project confirms that mandatory 50% participation of women and representation of caste and ethnic minorities in user-committee and executive positions that are proportionate to their populations will ensure their equal access to project benefits. Women's social empowerment can be achieved through social mobilization and capacity building in the process

Project Number: 32249-013
Project Name: Community-Based Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project
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Simple technology and small systems are more sustainable, as operation and maintenance (O&M) responsibility for rural water supply is assigned to the community and VMWs are able to maintain these systems with limited technical skills.

Project Number: 32249-013
Project Name: Community-Based Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project
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Community mobilization should be conducted prior to water user and sanitation committee (WUSC) formation so beneficiaries will be fully aware and their participation effective. While nongovernment organizations (NGOs) were effective in community mobilization and raising awareness, their technical capacity was comparatively weak. Therefore, project formulation should include capacity assessment of all stakeholders.

Project Number: 32249-013
Project Name: Community-Based Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project
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Retroactive financing and advance procurement action are needed to avoid start-up delays.

Project Number: 32249-013
Project Name: Community-Based Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project
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Project implementation, monitoring, and supervision were logistically difficult and costly due to scattered subproject sites (both districts and village). Clustering the project area based on geographic contiguity and similarity should be considered when selecting project sites in order to improve the efficiency of implementation, monitoring, and supervision.

Project Number: 32249-013
Project Name: Community-Based Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project
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A procurement plan needs to be prepared and agreed with the government during project design in order to define procurement requirements, create a sound financial justification for procuring these, and schedule those tasks by allocating time frames and resources.

Project Number: 32249-013
Project Name: Community-Based Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project
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To offer a more consistent, harmonized approach to nongoverment organization (NGO) support, the Ministry of Rural Development (MRD) has engaged one NGO to provide support for all provincial teams, instead of hiring individual NGO teams to support each provincial department of rural development (PDRD);

Project Number: 34382-022
Project Name: Tonle Sap Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project
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Market-level compensation is necessary to attract and retain competent staff at the PMU and PIUs.

Project Number: 35496-013
Project Name: Western Uzbekistan Rural Water Supply Project
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