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Lesson
Ensuring that Indicators are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound (SMART) is essential to tracking and measuring project results. One project target output was not realistic. The indicator used involves a complex bureaucratic process and requires allocation of revenue budget from the government, which was beyond the project’s scope and administrative boundary.

Project Number: 42248-013, 42248-023
Project Name: Second Chittagong Hill Tracts Rural Development Project
Report Date: 21 Nov 2022

Lesson
Targets need to be specific and evidence-based and indicators well-defined and measurable to enable a reliable assessment of implementation progress and project accomplishments and performance at completion. This project suffered from weaknesses in indicators and the results chain. Examples were inadequate links between intended outputs and outcome, lack of specific targets (output 1 and outcome), and poorly defined target (output 3). One impact target was misplaced (project staffing) and another was deemed unachievable (number of WUCSs confirming receipt of water services).

Project Number: 43253-023
Project Name: Karnataka Integrated and Sustainable Water Resources Management Investment Program - Project 1
Report Date: 23 Sep 2022

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Countries

  • Bangladesh (1)
  • India (1)

Sectors

  • (-) Agriculture, natural resources, and rural development (2)
    • (-) Rural water policy, institutional and capacity development (2)
    • Irrigation (1)
    • Land-based natural resources management (1)
    • Water-based natural resources management (1)
  • Transport (1)

Themes

  • Inclusive Economic Growth (2)
  • Environmentally Sustainable Growth (1)
  • Private Sector Development (1)
  • Governance and Capacity Development (2)
  • Gender Equity and Mainstreaming (2)

Report Year

  • 2022 (2)

Report Source

  • Self-evaluation (2)

Report Rating

  • Successful (2)

Applicability

  • Results framework and methodology level (1)

Topics

  • Budgeting (1)
  • Capacity development (2)
  • Commitment and leadership (1)
  • DMF, Indicators (1)
  • EA/IA capacity development (1)
  • Eco-compensation mechanisms (1)
  • Environmental (2)
  • Finance and financial aspects (2)
  • Financial (3)
  • Gender (1)
  • Institutional (4)
  • Methodologies / approaches (10)
  • Modality (3)
  • Monitoring and evaluation (10)
  • Organizational capacity (1)
  • Others (7)
  • Overambitious targets (1)
  • Project design (7)
  • Project reporting (2)
  • Reform programs (1)
  • Reporting and supervision (1)
  • Retention money (works contracts) (1)
  • Safeguards (1)
  • Scope changes (1)
  • Sector loan modality (1)
  • Skilled human resources (1)
  • Social (4)
  • Stakeholder engagement (3)
  • Stakeholder selection (1)
  • Technical (8)
  • Water user associations (WUAs) (1)
  • (-) Indicators (2)

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