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The government's and beneficiaries' in-kind contributions included in the project cost estimates should be quantifiable to ensure the proper monitoring and audit of the project's financial statements.

Project Number: 37536-013
Project Name: Land Improvement Project
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Cofinancing by Global Environment Facility (GEF) is particularly useful for agricultural projects with environment- sensitive issues like water and soil salinity, and water logging.

Project Number: 37536-013
Project Name: Land Improvement Project
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On-farm works requiring consultation with and contributions from beneficiaries require considerable time, efforts, and resources. Hence, their design, schedule, resource allocation, and implementation arrangements need to be planned carefully.

Project Number: 37536-013
Project Name: Land Improvement Project
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A thorough review of the project at the midterm review to identify key issues and prepare remedial measures was key to the adequate completion of the project.

Project Number: 37536-013
Project Name: Land Improvement Project
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The project may be able to secure the involvement of larger processors and traders by making large financial contributions to their business plans, as smaller contributions are not helpful.

Project Number: 34308-022
Project Name: Commercial Agriculture Development Project
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Women and disadvantaged groups often do not have enough time to participate fully in project implementation and capacity development activities and thus benefit from the project. Designing the project to include targeted interventions such as intense mobilization, training, and the facilitation of access to finance, extension services, and inputs optimizes the possibility of visible improvements to their livelihoods.

Project Number: 34308-022
Project Name: Commercial Agriculture Development Project
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Enterprises operated by farmer groups, especially those composed of women, the poor, and disadvantaged people, should be provided with refresher skills training, access to finance, follow-up services, and ways to maintain market links to sustain operations and benefits. The provision of land lease financing serves as a good way to reach poor and landless families by helping them access productive resources and benefit from commercial agriculture.

Project Number: 34308-022
Project Name: Commercial Agriculture Development Project
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The timely design and execution of a results-based monitoring system is an important means of collecting and reporting project outputs and outcomes in a disaggregated way during project implementation, and carrying out an objective impact evaluation upon completion.

Project Number: 34308-022
Project Name: Commercial Agriculture Development Project
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Designing the project with mechanisms for communication and coordination between existing government institutions in project districts and project management structures can facilitate smooth project implementation and monitoring. This also ensures that sector offices will provide beneficiaries with follow-up services after project completion.

Project Number: 34308-022
Project Name: Commercial Agriculture Development Project
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Ambitious project design including diverse technical and geographic coverage combined with innovative project procedures can delay implementation until all implementing agencies fully understand the process. _x005F_x000D__x005F_x000D_Competitive bidding for agricultural research based on clear selection criteria that prioritize marginal areas and are formulated jointly by researchers and extension workers can lead to more user-responsive and demand-driven research, which also can be immediately extended to poor farmers.

Project Number: 36304-013
Project Name: Agriculture Science and Technology Project
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Project delays could have been reduced significantly by identifying and deploying qualified staff during project preparation, keeping those staff throughout implementation, obtaining early government approval for the project, and taking advance action on the recruitment of consultants before the loan agreement was signed.

Project Number: 32193-013
Project Name: Northwest Crop Diversification Project
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The selection of capable nongovernment organizations (NGOs) was critical to ensuring effective delivery of services and for sustaining project activities.

Project Number: 32193-013
Project Name: Northwest Crop Diversification Project
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Post-project monitoring and evaluation systems need to be designed for the project during the planning phase to ensure ongoing innovation and sustainability of the project impacts.

Project Number: 32193-013
Project Name: Northwest Crop Diversification Project
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All project components should have been based on need assessment. This was particularly true of the activities for agribusiness credit piloting and infrastructure for marketing and the facilities at the horticulture training and demonstration centers (HTDCs). Failure to assess needs and conditions for these components adequately meant that the outputs were not used fully or successfully.

Project Number: 32193-013
Project Name: Northwest Crop Diversification Project
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To ensure that the markets to be built under the project would be successful, the project needed to seek the participation and take into account the opinions of local stakeholders when selecting the sites for market construction.

Project Number: 32193-013
Project Name: Northwest Crop Diversification Project
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