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The ability of NGOs and the private sector to make a real contribution to extension services depend on their technical and institutional capacity, and this should be taken into account as a basis for selection. Such a lesson implies that other factors were used as the basis for selection. It also stipulated a requirement for orientation of these organizations, implying that this was not done. This introduces concern as to how successful NGOs and private sector providers actually were.

Project Number: 30228-013
Project Name: Crop Diversification Project
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It is important to provide suitable incentives to attract commercial seed growers, which is key to providing quality seed of new varieties to farmers, in addition to incentives for increasing the capacity of the breeding institutions to multiply high- quality foundation seed.

Project Number: 31577-013
Project Name: Grain Productivity Improvement Project
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Participating financial institutions (PFIs) should be selected more thoroughly keeping in view their relevant experience, geographic coverage, staff, and other resources.

Project Number: 31577-013
Project Name: Grain Productivity Improvement Project
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For agriculture enterprise development to be successful, sufficient lead time and necessary information and data should be provided, preferably through demonstration farms, for farmers to be convinced of what types of machinery and equipment to procure; subloan procedures should be simplified and the processing time shortened.

Project Number: 31577-013
Project Name: Grain Productivity Improvement Project
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Project management staff benefits should match with those of comparable private sector institutions to prevent high turnover that constrains project management.

Project Number: 31577-013
Project Name: Grain Productivity Improvement Project
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While involving a number of government institutions and building their capacity is desirable for sustainability, enough resources should be provided for effective coordination.

Project Number: 31577-013
Project Name: Grain Productivity Improvement Project
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For water users' associations (WUAs) and other community-based organizations to be effective and sustainable, they should have a good source(s) of income and reasonable leverage to collect.

Project Number: 31577-013
Project Name: Grain Productivity Improvement Project
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Lesson
The implementation period should be realistic, determined after a thorough analysis of activities and their inter-relations and sequence. As the design implementation period of the project was short, some targets, particularly those related to varietal development and testing, were ambitious.

Project Number: 31577-013
Project Name: Grain Productivity Improvement Project
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Field trial-cum-demonstration farms are effective in introducing improved technologies to farmers.

Project Number: 31577-013
Project Name: Grain Productivity Improvement Project
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Lesson
In forming loan covenants regarding policy reforms, sector issues should be reviewed in total, as some reforms may be rendered ineffective by various distortions.

Project Number: 31577-013
Project Name: Grain Productivity Improvement Project
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Lesson
The program required the cooperation of a large number of government agencies, while responsibility for implementation was given to the newly established Pasig River Rehabilitation Commission, without a well-established mandate or political influence. Without high-level political support, coordination became difficult and program outcomes were not achieved. When the responsibility for project implementation was delegated to sector agencies, it became more effective.

Project Number: 30308-013
Project Name: Pasig River Environmental Management and Rehabilitation Sector Development Program
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Lesson
The program was overly ambitious in its scope and in its implementation structure. Only after modification of the scope and implementation arrangements was progress made. This could have been avoided, had a proper risk assessment and risk mitigation plan been prepared, based on the lessons learned from the previous program. Although the Pasig River Development Plan provided a good framework for the implementation of environmental improvement projects, more and longer-term assistance is required to establish the institutional setting for its effective implementation.

Project Number: 30308-013
Project Name: Pasig River Environmental Management and Rehabilitation Sector Development Program
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Lesson
Because the government had already purchased most of the housing prior to ADB loan approval, it could not be financed by the loan. ADB funds were therefore directed toward facilities. If ADB had not been involved in the project, the host communities would have received these community facilities much later and they would probably have been of a lower quality.

Project Number: 30308-013
Project Name: Pasig River Environmental Management and Rehabilitation Sector Development Program
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Lesson
The technical assistance contributed substantially to achieving the policy reforms envisaged under the policy loan, but longer-term and more focused assistance will be required since: (i) as a new agency, the PRRC has limited capacity to drive policy reforms; (ii) policy change requires skills, effective institutional incentives and culture change; (iii) the program is ambitious and multi-faceted, encompassing a wide range of stakeholders with a variety of interests, not necessarily linked to the policy agenda.

Project Number: 30308-013
Project Name: Pasig River Environmental Management and Rehabilitation Sector Development Program
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Lesson
The program assumed that by implementing the policy framework the government would have the tools and capacity to implement the full Pasig River Development Plan (PRDP), leading to the overall objective of improving the Pasig River water quality to class C level by 2014. However, the outputs of the policy loan covered only part of the implementation activities of the PRDP, and therefore it should have been clear from the start that the overall objective was not attainable.

Project Number: 30308-013
Project Name: Pasig River Environmental Management and Rehabilitation Sector Development Program
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