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Small investments can have large impacts and make a big difference to people's lives. Examples from this project include the hospitals in the project cities and the diversion channel for rainwater in Kota.

Project Number: 29120-013
Project Name: Rajasthan Urban Infrastructure Development Project
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Timely induction of counterpart staff and building up their capacity is critical to a successful handover of assets to urban local bodies (ULBs) and line agencies.

Project Number: 29120-013
Project Name: Rajasthan Urban Infrastructure Development Project
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Understanding the sector environment in new member countries is important. When engaging in a new sector or country, understanding the key sector participants and their agendas, as well as developments in the sector is important. This will improve the project design and increase the likelihood that the project will have strong government support.

Project Number: 35087-013
Project Name: Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Project
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Along with consultations related to project formulation and design, consultation with participating towns on cost recovery, tariffs, and user charges is crucial forsustainability.

Project Number: 29120-013
Project Name: Rajasthan Urban Infrastructure Development Project
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Clarity of roles and responsibilities: The PPTA and the RRP identified overlap in administrative and geographic alignments of agencies such as WASA, town administrations, RDA, the Cantonment Board, and the CDG responsible for municipal and other urban functions (para. 55). The policy actions, PSC and PIRC established for the project were unable to address these gaps. Clarity of roles, and geographic, administrative, and sector alignment are prerequisites for effective urban governance and need to be addressed at the planning stage or should be part of project readiness checklist.

Project Number: 37003-013
Project Name: Rawalpindi Environmental Improvement
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A good project performance monitoring system is essential to avoid ad hoc or delayed decisions. Weekly contractor review meetings, a practice introduced by the Urban Development Department (UDD), can help get past implementation hurdles in a timely manner.

Project Number: 29120-013
Project Name: Rajasthan Urban Infrastructure Development Project
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Providing awards and incentives to contractors for quality and timely delivery, as done by the UDD, helps foster a spirit of competition and better performance.

Project Number: 29120-013
Project Name: Rajasthan Urban Infrastructure Development Project
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Schedule for implementation and financing. The WMG should have increased the wastewater tariff to raise the required funding instead of requiring the WUDDC to borrow more from domestic banks. The WUDDC�s audited financial reports indicate that its short-term indebtedness is much higher than the typical for such an enterprise. The more timely reallocation of unused loan proceeds could have achieved full utilization of the loan proceeds including savings on interest during construction.

Project Number: 34472-013
Project Name: Wuhan Wastewater Management
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Alignment with overall reforms: The project only supported implementation of reforms in the participating towns and WASA in line with PLGO 2001 and urban policy actions agreed with the government for the project (para. 53). Ownership and commitment to reforms deteriorated in general and project implementation was adversely affected. Although these risks were identified in the project design, no flexibility was built into the design to respond to these external factors.

Project Number: 37003-013
Project Name: Rawalpindi Environmental Improvement
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Involving specialist agencies for specific components�the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage for this project's heritage component, for example� leads to positive outcomes.

Project Number: 29120-013
Project Name: Rajasthan Urban Infrastructure Development Project
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Ensuring quality in complex reform oriented projects: The consultants under the loan were hired through QCBS. The staff costs in the bids were inadequate for quality staff. This hiring process allowed weak firms to bid low and win the bids, without fully appreciating the tasks ahead. The request for proposal for complex sector loans should either be quality-based or include a bid rejection option in case of underbidding in QCBS.

Project Number: 37003-013
Project Name: Rawalpindi Environmental Improvement
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Achieving critical mass in the staffing of the PMU and project implementation units (PIUs) and retaining key staff members for the duration of the project are important factors in smooth implementation. A number of engineers involved in the project's design and familiar with packaging and contract conditions remained with PMU through implementation and greatly facilitated its execution.

Project Number: 29120-013
Project Name: Rajasthan Urban Infrastructure Development Project
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Land acquisition and resettlement. Because of land use changes in updated urban development programs, the Luobuzui WWTP was relocated after the issuance of the land-use permit. Resettlement impacts were consequently different from those anticipated in the resettlement plans, and identification of a new WWTP site caused implementation delays and difficulties. The change mandated the adaptation of the associated wastewater collection system, which made resettlement more difficult.

Project Number: 34472-013
Project Name: Wuhan Wastewater Management
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Ensure the government understands the proposed project. Ensure that government agencies fully review and understand proposed projects. Reconfirmation with all relevant agencies is critical.

Project Number: 35087-013
Project Name: Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Project
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Information, education, and communication aimed at changing the behavior of urban residents are necessary to achieve design results.

Project Number: 29120-013
Project Name: Rajasthan Urban Infrastructure Development Project
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