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Even conventional and repetitive activities like procurement need close management and careful handling when implemented in a new setting.

Project Number: 33409-013
Project Name: Vocational Education Strengthening Project
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A good M&E system with appropriate indicators is a requisite whenever new concepts or approaches (i.e., school business plans or cluster approaches) are introduced in vocational education systems.

Project Number: 33409-013
Project Name: Vocational Education Strengthening Project
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Good teaching–learning processes and high teacher quality is needed if TVET investment is to yield economic benefits to the society.

Project Number: 33409-013
Project Name: Vocational Education Strengthening Project
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Financing arrangements for TVET across public and private schools need to take account of the broader framework of fiscal devolution in countries with significant decentralization policies.

Project Number: 33409-013
Project Name: Vocational Education Strengthening Project
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Good coordination among school administrators, provincial officers, and community members is essential to maximize the potential benefits accruing from linkages between business and industries. Appropriate guidelines or checklists are required to guide and define stakeholder roles.

Project Number: 33409-013
Project Name: Vocational Education Strengthening Project
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Inclusive education planning and management decisions in decentralized public management systems require meeting the diverse needs of the country’s regions in a mutually compatible, synchronized, and coherent manner.

Project Number: 33409-013
Project Name: Vocational Education Strengthening Project
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Local knowledge innovations delivered through ADB projects have the potential to be replicated in other ADB investments. Examples of local knowledge innovations from this project that were new for ADB education investments include the translation of seminal English language texts on teacher education into local (Mongolian) language; and the national open source teacher development web portal set up to facilitate sharing of educational materials.

Project Number: 39254-022
Project Name: Education Sector Reform Project
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ADB’s contribution to development may be unknown where ADB branding is not publicly visible to stakeholders. ICT equipment, science laboratories, and other physical infrastructure provided under the project were not accompanied by ADB branding (plaques, stickers, etc.). This approach is inconsistent with current practice among development partners and diminishes the visibility of ADB’s positive contributions to development.

Project Number: 39254-022
Project Name: Education Sector Reform Project
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Where ADB is recognized as the lead development partner in a sector ADB is often well placed to support the partner government with formal development partner coordination in that sector. ADB has been the lead development partner in the Mongolia education sector since 1996, and as such is well placed to support the government to recommence education sector development partner coordination.

Project Number: 39254-022
Project Name: Education Sector Reform Project
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A project will be more successful if it demonstrates flexibility to meet the needs of stakeholders. In the case of the evaluated project, the decision to delay procurement of an off-the-shelf education sector information system (ESIS) and explore options to build the system resulted in an ESIS that is delivering lasting benefits to Mongolia— above and beyond government and ADB expectations. Although this decision delayed the project and impacted the efficiency of the investment, it contributed to a sound development outcome and a lasting impact.

Project Number: 39254-022
Project Name: Education Sector Reform Project
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Lessons learned from earlier interventions need to be incorporated during implementation. An earlier PPER for the Madhya Pradesh Power Sector Development Program implemented from 2002 to 2007 had highlighted the need to reduce AT&C losses by improving billing and collection efficiency and discouraging electricity theft by taking legal action against pilferers as a necessary follow-up to ensure financial sustainability.

Project Number: 32298-013, 32298-023, 32298-033, 32298-043, 32298-053, 32298-063, 32298-073
Project Name: Madhya Pradesh Power Sector Investment Program
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Multitranche financing facility design, when appropriate, can also bring benefits to the rural poor. The MFF enabled augmentation of the transmission and distribution system. The energy supplied to consumers has increased by a factor of 2.3 in 13 years (Table 3). Through initiatives taken by the government, there was increase in supply to rural areas with more low-income households. The consumption in rural areas increased by a factor of 2.1 from 13,891 GWh in FY2012 to 29,180 GWh in FY2019.

Project Number: 32298-013, 32298-023, 32298-033, 32298-043, 32298-053, 32298-063, 32298-073
Project Name: Madhya Pradesh Power Sector Investment Program
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Flexibility of multitranche financing facility design and process contributes to greater efficiency and harmonization of funds in the sector. As the MFF was implemented concurrently with several other initiatives to improve the state’s electrical distribution systems (para. 12), it was essential for each successive tranche to be specifically designed to fill gaps not covered by the various ongoing schemes to ensure the best use of the ADB loan funds.

Project Number: 32298-013, 32298-023, 32298-033, 32298-043, 32298-053, 32298-063, 32298-073
Project Name: Madhya Pradesh Power Sector Investment Program
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Proper formulation of training components is necessary to effectively build the capacity of institutions and meet priority needs. Providing resources for a program that is not well developed usually results in poor use of resources as priorities for use of resources do not often match additional skill requirements. An important lesson from the assessment is a need for more attention to the implementation of institutional components during project supervision as physical components are a natural priority of implementing agencies.

Project Number: 40643-013
Project Name: Xinjiang Urban Transport and Environmental Improvement Project
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It is important for urban transport projects to factor in adequate measures to address sustainability issues which can positively affect the project outcomes on the ground in the long term. Attaining sustainability is important in rapidly growing urban areas where rising population levels, increased motorization and economic activity combine to produce conditions that can adversely impact sustainability and erode the benefits of urbanization and quality of life.

Project Number: 40643-013
Project Name: Xinjiang Urban Transport and Environmental Improvement Project
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