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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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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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A qualification and certification system is critical to ensuring the quality of skills and facilitating labor mobility. Governments in over 100 countries are designing, implementing, or considering national qualification frameworks or are involved with regional qualifications frameworks. The idea is that all qualifications can (and should) be expressed in terms of outcomes. Students can be tested based on their competency and certified accordingly, regardless of their learning pathways. This will help assure employers of the skills of their workers.

Project Number: 25033-013
Project Name: Vocational and Technical Education Project
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Linkage with enterprises is important in assisting students find jobs and lowering the burden among training providers. Enterprises are a key beneficiary of skilled labor and hence have direct interest in skills training. Yet, they are often skeptical of the quality of training provided by public vocational and technical education institutions because of the disconnection between the two. Without good relations with employers, schools will find it difficult to provide students with job information or align their training to employers’ needs.

Project Number: 25033-013
Project Name: Vocational and Technical Education Project
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An efficient information system is important not only to monitor the progress of the project but also to provide real-time data critical for policy making. The labor market information system was the first attempt of the vocational and technical education system to trace students after graduation and collect systematic information on enterprise demand. However, its complexity made the system costly and unsustainable. A more integrated and less complex system would be useful so that schools can have the resources and capacity to collect information.

Project Number: 25033-013
Project Name: Vocational and Technical Education Project
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Risks that may undermine project implementation should be identified and planned to be addressed in advance. For this project, such risks include weak and overlapping management of the vocational and technical education (VTE) system, detachment of training from industry needs, and poor social image of VTE. A streamlined system that is closely linked with the market will help ensure smooth school-to-work transition for students, which could then improve the perception of vocational training.

Project Number: 25033-013
Project Name: Vocational and Technical Education Project
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Curriculum reform requires strong government ownership and commitment in terms of counterpart financing and policy changes required to support the reform. Improving national school education outcomes requires adequate time and funding. Sufficient teacher capacity building activities, learning and teaching materials, and appropriate learning environments should accompany the curriculum reform.

Project Number: 39304-012
Project Name: Second Education Project
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The dilemma of this project is the lack of achievement and partial achievement of some outcome indicators, while planned outputs were mostly delivered. Ensuring the direct link between supported activities, outputs and outcome, and relevance of their indicators is critical.

Project Number: 39304-012
Project Name: Second Education Project
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Better infrastructure directly increases attendance rates, and brings significant savings from improved heating and energy efficiency of buildings. The inclusion of maintenance of supplied equipment and training for relevant staff as part of the supply contract is an effective tool to ensure equipment sustainability and ongoing effectiveness. Thorough assessment of compliance with qualification requirements during consultant recruitment can prevent unnecessary problems and delays during project implementation.

Project Number: 39304-012
Project Name: Second Education Project
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Provision of learning and teaching materials (LTMs) for more than one grade should be funded to effectively launch a new curriculum. For textbook bids, good practice involves achieving continuity of content and approach by bidding subject textbooks for a series of grades, i.e., mathematics LTMs for grades 1-4 have to be developed by the same team of authors. A shortage of LTMs and poor teacher capacity can undermine the whole curriculum reform process.

Project Number: 39304-012
Project Name: Second Education Project
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A systemic approach to reforming the primary education system is required to address the complexity, complementarity and dependency of issues and organizations in primary education. To design such an integrated approach, a comprehensive subsector analysis to guide the scoping of the program and adopting realistic targets is necessary. The baseline study conducted by Directorate of Primary Education for the midterm review mission performed this function.

Project Number: 30216-013
Project Name: Second Primary Education Development Program
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Assessment of executing agency capacity is critical when embarking on an ambitious sector-wide approach and particularly so in a large, complex primary education system like that in Bangladesh with development partners cofinancing the project. The high number of vacancies and limited capacity of the Directorate of Primary Education were acknowledged during the design phase, which should have prompted a need to consider a preparatory phase to get minimum preconditions in place before beginning the implementation.

Project Number: 30216-013
Project Name: Second Primary Education Development Program
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