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Lesson
Greater care should be taken when recommending the introduction of new technology such as drip irrigation, which had not been practiced on a large scale in the Philippines.

Project Number: 24076-013
Project Name: Bukidnon Integrated Area Development Project
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Lesson
The water availability for the irrigation schemes appears to have been underestimated at the design stage. In particular, it was found that the Sagayon communal irrigation system or CIS (if implemented) would have been able to provide irrigation water to less than 35% of the area planned.

Project Number: 24076-013
Project Name: Bukidnon Integrated Area Development Project
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Lesson
The high cost of providing water to crops, such as tomatoes, using drip irrigation can only be justified in situations where there is assurance of high yields and prices for farm produce. In the project design, insufficient attention was paid to ensuring that the farmers would be able to secure the resources to fund the purchase of high levels of farm inputs or that the marketing arrangements would remain in place for them to obtain high prices.

Project Number: 24076-013
Project Name: Bukidnon Integrated Area Development Project
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Lesson
The project should have supported a detailed market study to identify the demand for various high-value crops in different markets at various times of the year. This information could have been made available to farmers to guide them in their timing and choice of planting different crops. A market information system, linking farmers with major buyers for their commodities, could also have been provided to ensure that farmers receive the best prices for their crops.

Project Number: 24076-013
Project Name: Bukidnon Integrated Area Development Project
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Lesson
The feasibility study should have included a detailed value-chain analysis to trace the flow of produce from the farm to its final use and to identify all risks involved at different stages. Effective, feasible remedies should be recommended at each stage. A critical oversight in assessing risks was linking the investment project to the purchase of tomatoes by the tomato-processing factory.

Project Number: 24076-013
Project Name: Bukidnon Integrated Area Development Project
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Lesson
Greater attention should have been given to the impact of the project on the budget resources of the province.

Project Number: 24076-013
Project Name: Bukidnon Integrated Area Development Project
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Lesson
More resources should have been allocated prior to appraisal for the preparation of the feasibility study to verify that the project was both technically and economically viable. The small-scale feasibility study did not provide sufficient time or resources to collect important design data such as rainfall records, land tenure status, crop budgets (including realistic figures on crop inputs), yields, and prices for the with- and without-project situations. This additional information would have enabled the appraisal report to provide a more informed assessment of major project risks.

Project Number: 24076-013
Project Name: Bukidnon Integrated Area Development Project
Report Date:
Lesson
Procedures for project implementation at the local level need to be established at an early stage. More attention needs to be given to establishing an ongoing dialogue among ADB, national-level government agencies, and the provincial- level executing agency (EA) and implementing agencies (IAs) on the documentation required for the smooth flow of funds. More attention should have been given to capacity building of the EA and IAs in the early stages of project implementation.

Project Number: 24076-013
Project Name: Bukidnon Integrated Area Development Project
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Lesson
No new lessons

Project Number: 35068-013
Project Name: Gujarat Earthquake Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Project
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Lesson
No new lessons

Project Number: 32189-013
Project Name: Coastal Fisheries Management and Development Project
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Lesson
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
Sector loans lack the scope to address crosscutting themes and have mostly been successful due to established institutional linkages within given sectors. In contrast, the issue of labor rights is not confined to a sector, but is a crosscutting macro-level structural issue involving nationwide economic, sociopolitical, and legal reforms.

Project Number: 32024-013
Project Name: Sindh Rural Development 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
To avoid startup delays and politicization of the recruitment process, the most feasible mode of procurement of community mobilization services is single-source selection of one qualified NGO at the appraisal stage.

Project Number: 32024-013
Project Name: Sindh Rural Development 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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