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The conduct of a project preparatory technical assistance (PPTA) should be a necessary condition before undertaking a lending operation for technical education and vocational training. A PPTA could have helped to understand the institutional context, including possible political–economic factors that were in play.

Project Number: 36654-013
Project Name: Restructuring of the Technical Education and Vocational Training System Project (Balochistan)
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Projects with significant information technology (IT) components require specific expertise in designing the software's technical specifications and bidding documents, and monitoring a software developer's work. The terms of reference for IT experts should have required candidates to have minimum experience in writing technical specifications for software development that were successfully tendered.

Project Number: 41544-072
Project Name: Investment Climate Improvement Program System Support Project
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It is unlikely that civil servants in the Kyrgyz Republic have the necessary incentives to manage complex projects as unremunerated, part-time project managers, even if they are highly competent. It is also unlikely that public procurement processes can be managed without specialized procurement skills. A fully dedicated project manager and a procurement specialist should have been appointed to the project.

Project Number: 41544-072
Project Name: Investment Climate Improvement Program System Support Project
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Implementation of a single window for foreign trade is an extremely complex process that requires a long-term commitment and high-level support. It also requires continuous dialogue with all concerned government agencies to lower resistance to change, including by middle managers and operational staff. The project should have had a longer implementation period and should have included a stronger communication and change management component. A project administration manual and a design and monitoring framework (DMF) at an earlier stage could have helped expedite implementation.

Project Number: 41544-072
Project Name: Investment Climate Improvement Program System Support Project
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Raising awareness of end-users is an important component of projects that streamline government administration. It helps increase demand for the systems, reduce misinformation, and support the overall change. The funding allocation to public awareness campaigns under the project could have been higher.

Project Number: 41544-072
Project Name: Investment Climate Improvement Program System Support Project
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Information technologgy training for government agencies' staff was expensive. It may be more efficient in future procurement plans to have a separate package for training in basic information and communication technology, as there are many institutions in the country that provide these services.

Project Number: 41544-072
Project Name: Investment Climate Improvement Program System Support Project
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The lessons drawn by the PCR are valuable to ADB. ADB needs to seriously consider the socioeconomic and political environments in designing projects. Implementing a project in an unstable environment is not likely to yield positive outcomes. Proper timing is important in introducing a project especially when it entails a paradigm shift (i.e., from supply-led to demand driven). The experience with this project highlighted the need for greater coordination with other donors in addressing the country’s strategic development needs.

Project Number: 32541-013
Project Name: Fiji: Alternative Livelihoods Development Project
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Development of textbooks and related teaching aids needs to be meticulously synchronized with the new curriculum development in order to avoid any delays and lost time.

Project Number: 36510-013
Project Name: Second Textbook Development Project
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In addition, this validation emphasizes that institutional capacity building is critical in monitoring and evaluating the project. Policymakers need to be able to monitor the results and impact of the intervention in order to track the success of a reform project. ADB should continue working with the government to support the education sector reforms in Uzbekistan.

Project Number: 36510-013
Project Name: Second Textbook Development Project
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Another lesson arises from the novelty and innovation of the project - a higher priority should have been placed on social marketing and awareness raising among potential partner institutions and students, to ensure broad-based demand and a strong supply of market- oriented courses. There is great potential for self-sustainability in this model if its management is outsourced or it is transformed into a corporate entity, but inclusion of social marketing will be key to its success.

Project Number: 33251-013
Project Name: Distance Education Modernization Project
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The project involved the establishment of an entirely new platform of learning, with investments in hardware and software and including creation of partnerships with institutions that were to develop their course content into online distance learning format. This constituted a major step toward a new concept of learning. There is a risk that the system will eventually collapse unless it is put on a sound business and strategic footing in the near future.

Project Number: 33251-013
Project Name: Distance Education Modernization Project
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The need for better planning and coordination between all ministries and agencies that have a potential stake in a project's outputs. In the case of this project, NODES can be of relevance and use to the training and education programs offered and governed by various ministries and agencies - e.g., Ministry of Education, Vocational Training Authority.

Project Number: 33251-013
Project Name: Distance Education Modernization Project
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An important lesson regards the nature of the courses that were offered and if they were the most appropriate ones for an online distance-learning platform.

Project Number: 33251-013
Project Name: Distance Education Modernization Project
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Before a complex and innovative technical education and vocational training (TEVT) project is designed, particularly in a relatively less developed region like Balochistan, it is necessary to have extensive consultations with stakeholders directly involved with the TEVT system to develop realistic objectives and activities.

Project Number: 36654-013
Project Name: Restructuring of the Technical Education and Vocational Training System Project (Balochistan)
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Given the weak capacity of the executing and implementing agencies, consultants should have been recruited before loan effectiveness. Had the consulting services been available, the project would most likely have achieved at least some of its objectives.

Project Number: 36654-013
Project Name: Restructuring of the Technical Education and Vocational Training System Project (Balochistan)
Report Date: