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It is critical for executing agencies to enhance their procurement capacity to ensure that all consulting services needed by a project are in place at the earliest possible time. The recruitment of a consulting firm for engineering design and drawing under this project spanned 15 months despite advance action. This significantly delayed project implementation, highlighting the need for MECCS to strengthen its procurement capacity and ensure the timely recruitment of consultants for its projects.

Project Number: 49168-001
Project Name: Improving School Dormitory Environment for Primary Students in Western Region Project
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Contract management may better be handled by engaging a consulting firm rather than individual consultants. It was challenging for MECSS to recruit nine individual consultants, manage and coordinate them, review their reports, and process their payments during project implementation. In the future, it would be better for projects of this kind to have one consulting firm instead of several individual consultants whose inputs are closely linked.

Project Number: 49168-001
Project Name: Improving School Dormitory Environment for Primary Students in Western Region Project
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It is important for all stakeholders to have the same understanding of the expected project outputs to minimize issues during implementation. The volume of civil works required by the target school dormitories was higher than that calculated at appraisal. Hence, the executing agency, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Sports (MECSS) and ADB had to revise the civil works allocations and reduce the number of target dormitories.

Project Number: 49168-001
Project Name: Improving School Dormitory Environment for Primary Students in Western Region Project
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Rebuilding model schools provides opportunities to demonstrate their usefulness to the larger school program and to communities particularly in building disaster-resilient schools, and to develop knowledge and skills in disaster risk management. It also provides a space for greater social inclusion and increased ownership as local authorities and communities are mobilized for rebuilding and reconstruction.

Project Number: 49202-001
Project Name: Disaster Risk Reduction and Livelihood Restoration for Earthquake-Affected Communities
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Subsidized credit when sourced from a grant may be used as an immediate and emergency response to the financing needs of those severely affected by disaster. However, it is not sustainable over time when grant funds are no longer available. It is basically a stop gap measure in an emergency. There are costs to the delivery of financial services that need to be considered in product pricing to help financial institutions sustain their operations and continue serving targeted households. These institutions need to price their loan products to allow for full cost recovery.

Project Number: 49202-001
Project Name: Disaster Risk Reduction and Livelihood Restoration for Earthquake-Affected Communities
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Design flexibility is essential in the smooth implementation of an emergency response project. It allows the executing agency and project teams to make necessary changes in the project scope and helps in the alignment of project activities with the realities on the ground. The preparation of technical design and approval processes for an emergency assistance project needs to be developed on time to meet the immediate needs of households and communities for recovery.

Project Number: 49202-001
Project Name: Disaster Risk Reduction and Livelihood Restoration for Earthquake-Affected Communities
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Effective feedback mechanisms are important to developing community ownership of projects.

Project Number: 49320-001
Project Name: Cyclone Pam School Reconstruction Project
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More measures are needed to strengthen the disaster resilience of schools in Vanuatu.

Project Number: 49320-001
Project Name: Cyclone Pam School Reconstruction Project
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Schools with community emergency shelters have a strong scaling up potential in Vanuatu.

Project Number: 49320-001
Project Name: Cyclone Pam School Reconstruction Project
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Project targets and indicators need to be specific and measurable and should fully consider the project inputs.

Project Number: 49320-001
Project Name: Cyclone Pam School Reconstruction Project
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The use of single source procurement method does not always save time.

Project Number: 49320-001
Project Name: Cyclone Pam School Reconstruction Project
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Adequate flexibilities in project design and implementation to manage unexpected situations and meet reasonable requirements from the government, cofinanciers, and/or development partners are important to realize smooth progress and timely completion of reconstruction.

Project Number: 48192-001
Project Name: Cyclone Ian Recovery Project
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The use of an imprest account for regular and quick reimbursements of claims can effectively keep contractors/consultants satisfied and engaged, and therefore, avoid the risk of progress delay and/or cost overruns.

Project Number: 48192-001
Project Name: Cyclone Ian Recovery Project
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Including the recruitment of project management consulting services in the design of disaster response projects will promote immediate post-disaster recovery and avoid further overstretching government capacity during the post-disaster period.

Project Number: 48192-001
Project Name: Cyclone Ian Recovery Project
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Using the procurement procedural flexibilities provided under ADB’s Disaster and Emergency Assistance Policy can boost theeffectiveness and efficiency of post-disaster response projects.

Project Number: 48192-001
Project Name: Cyclone Ian Recovery Project
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