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If the project deals with a particular type of education institution (e.g., government-aided private schools), its representatives should bemore actively involved in designing and implementing the project.

Project Number: 46166-001
Project Name: Supporting Human Capital Development in Meghalaya
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As school graduates compete for employment opportunities with students from other states in India, it is the comparative quality of education that determines their access to jobs and likely benefits from the project investments. Hence, focus on education quality should be a requisite in designing similar projects.

Project Number: 46166-001
Project Name: Supporting Human Capital Development in Meghalaya
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In a federal–provincial type of country having multiple government structures, sectoral functions, and finances are intricately interwoven. Factoring such institutional arrangements fully while designing projects is critical and requires extra effort to ensure an effective coordination and coherence.

Project Number: 46166-001
Project Name: Supporting Human Capital Development in Meghalaya
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At project appraisal, staff turnover in government agencies including project implementing units (PIUs) was identified as a risk. It could have been prudent for the resident mission to provide insight into mitigation measures based on experience in other ADB projects and those of other development partners, particularly in ensuring proper repository of project documents to facilitate the efficient transfer of project responsibilities to new PIU staff.

Project Number: 45010-002
Project Name: Skills for Employment Project
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Completion of project activities relied heavily on consultant inputs without coordination with specific departments in the executing and implementing agencies to enable capacity building and integration. Implementation arrangements during project design could have identified departments whose purpose aligned with the project initiatives to ensure sustainability upon project completion

Project Number: 45010-002
Project Name: Skills for Employment Project
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It is prudent to consider providing project implementation support through a better-staffed consulting to mitigate existing capacity gaps in project agencies. At project appraisal, ADB identified the executing agency as having limited experience with ADB projects; yet it was made responsible for leading project performance tracking by the proect implementation unit (PIU), with the support of only two individual consultants for a short term. Changes in government exacerbated the lack of leadership and management capacity of the PIU.

Project Number: 45010-002
Project Name: Skills for Employment Project
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Revising the DMF and the indicators in a timely manner can accurately reflect outcomes and outputs that are relevant and feasible.

Project Number: 38176-015
Project Name: Skills Development Project
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Considering all associated risks and possible mitigating measures during project planning phase are important in designing a project for a country undergoing a major political transition.

Project Number: 38176-015
Project Name: Skills Development Project
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In road projects that address rural development, socioeconomic data on the impact of the project and traffic volumes are often difficult to obtain.

Project Number: 40423-023
Project Name: Rural Connectivity Investment Program – Tranche 1
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Inclusion of gender targets in policy actions and DMF ensures the delivery of gender actions benefiting women.

Project Number: 41544-088, 41544-089, 41544-091
Project Name: Second Investment Climate Improvement Program (Subprograms 1–3)
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Reforms on tax burden and administration should be broad enough to significantly reduce the cost of tax compliance and eventually the size of the informal economy.

Project Number: 41544-088, 41544-089, 41544-091
Project Name: Second Investment Climate Improvement Program (Subprograms 1–3)
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The DMF, along with the indicators and targets, should be revised and updated accordingly if and when a project goes through a major change in scope.

Project Number: 31309-013
Project Name: Post-Literacy and Continuing Education Project
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Realistic targets linked to performance indicators need to be set with clear baseline data and time period, and to ensure that these indicators are monitorable and measurable.

Project Number: 31309-013
Project Name: Post-Literacy and Continuing Education Project
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During the DMF exercise, outcomes should describe the immediate and direct benefits of the outputs and articulate changes the project is expected to create.

Project Number: 31309-013
Project Name: Post-Literacy and Continuing Education Project
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Decentralized and community-based training ensures relevance of skills in demand by the labor market in a particular district.

Project Number: 31309-013
Project Name: Post-Literacy and Continuing Education Project
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