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Lesson
Care should be exercised in designing new projects, in particular, in making urban population growth estimates in Lao PDR.

Project Number: 34197-032, 34197-042
Project Name: Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Northern and Central Regions Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project
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Lesson
The free connection policy has clearly shown its enormous impact on water supply coverage. A condition of connecting a premise to the water supply is that it must have a sanitation facility complying with local sanitation regulations. Residents are willing to install an approved sanitation facility so they can access the free connection to the piped system. Moreover, this policy has tremendously impacted sanitation coverage in the target communities.

Project Number: 34197-032, 34197-042
Project Name: Northern and Central Regions Water Supply and Sanitation Sector
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Lesson
No new lessons.

Project Number: 31352-013
Project Name: Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Small Towns Development Sector Project
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Lesson
Previous project and/or sector experience in Pakistan was not internalized and reflected in the design—the risk of underestimating capacity constraints could have been mitigated with a risk management strategy;

Project Number: 27182-013
Project Name: North-West Frontier Province Urban Development Sector Project
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Lesson
The project design did not have an adequate analytic base that should have included an assessment of stakeholders and their capacities, and provisions for alignment due to changes introduced by the LGO 2001;

Project Number: 27182-013
Project Name: North-West Frontier Province Urban Development Sector Project
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Lesson
Project monitoring and evaluation systems require sets of measurable indicators and associated targets so that corrective measures can be implemented in time to achieve the project’s outcome.

Project Number: 27182-013
Project Name: North-West Frontier Province Urban Development Sector Project
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Lesson
Supervision missions must flag projects that are in danger of slippage before it is too late to modify the project;

Project Number: 27182-013
Project Name: North-West Frontier Province Urban Development Sector Project
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No additional lessons

Project Number: 30308-013
Project Name: Pasig River Environmental Management and Rehabilitation Sector Development Program
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Lesson
Closer attention to the linkages (or the theory of change) between the provision of infrastructure and the resulting changes in social behavior and development outcomes may have been a more useful basis for project M&E, i.e., what were the behavior changes and could they be observed in project and non-project towns? This lesson applies more broadly to infrastructure projects that identify high level social outcomes and explicit behavior change for their longer-term success.

Project Number: 28315-013
Project Name: Third Provincial Towns Water Supply and Sanitation Project
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Lesson
Due diligence should be exercised not only in terms of technical factors but institutional, social, financial, and even political factors. While most if not all projects have excellent and even noble intentions and objectives and are extremely relevant to existing problems in the countries they are proposed for, these projects have to be realistic and must be designed considering the inherent problems and issues pertaining to the sector, country, or areas where they will be implemented.

Project Number: 31467-013
Project Name: Provincial Towns Water Supply and Sanitation Project
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Lesson
Inadequate preparation at appraisal and readiness at approval caused the problems encountered during implementation. An urban development master plan and more importantly a detailed feasibility study to fully assess costs and alternatives was not in place prior to appraisal. As a result, the project required (i) further detailed studies during an extended initial implementation phase, and (ii) supplementary financing.

Project Number: 28314-013, 28314-023
Project Name: Sanitation and Drainage Project
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Lesson
Thorough analysis of beneficiary preference, demand, and willingness to pay has to be conducted to ensure that preconceived notions of demand are verified, validated, and confirmed on the ground from the beneficiaries themselves. Very often project proponents from central government agencies have a different concept of needs and priorities from those at the field or local level. Local involvement in project conceptualization ensures greater project success, as there would be better ownership of project components and more accurate identification of needs of intended beneficiaries.

Project Number: 31243-013
Project Name: Integrated Development of Basic Urban Services in Provincial Towns Project
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Lesson
Appropriate monitoring indicators are required. A project framework or design monitoring framework should list SMART (i.e., specific, measurable, acceptable, relevant and time-bound) indicators that, as much as possible, are part of the specified agencies� established monitoring program, such as number of connections, water produced etc. Introducing new indicators should be accompanied by a strong support program because if agencies do not see the benefit of monitoring certain indicators, they will be unwilling to pay for collecting the data, such as the health indicators in this case.

Project Number: 28315-013
Project Name: Third Provincial Towns Water Supply and Sanitation Project
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Lesson
Project outcome and outputs need resource allocation. The identification and procurement of small-scale sanitation improvements was not carried out through community participation as intended, but directly by provincial project management units (PPMUs). The strong investment focus and the PPMUs� lack of knowledge about community-based approaches should have been identified as risks and mitigated by the project design through resource allocation.

Project Number: 28315-013
Project Name: Third Provincial Towns Water Supply and Sanitation Project
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Lesson
PVWU experience sharing is beneficial to effective implementation. Although guidelines were provided for the sanitation revolving fund, each PVWU had the flexibility to implement it differently. Sharing of experiences, especially at the beginning stages, could have contributed to a more streamlined and effective implementation of the community environmental sanitation improvement (CESI) program.

Project Number: 28315-013
Project Name: Third Provincial Towns Water Supply and Sanitation Project
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