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Even a minor or routine problem—e.g., the currency of the second-generation imprest accounts in the districts—can prove fatal and bring down the entire project if left unresolved over a long time.

Project Number: 30208-013
Project Name: Decentralized Elementary Education Project (Sindh)
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Overly complex and ambitious projects are difficult to implement especially when the executing agency is not familiar with the procedures and institutional practices of ADB.

Project Number: 30208-013
Project Name: Decentralized Elementary Education Project (Sindh)
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Paying salaries for government staff in project management or implementation units can cause problems of overstaffing or inappropriate appointments. A salary supplement may often be a better option, where essential, but with strict limits on eligibility to avoid the same problems.

Project Number: 38135-013
Project Name: Multisector Rehabilitation and Improvement Project for Azad Jammu and Kashmir
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Where institutional weakness is evident, means of assuring adequate support could include capacity building TA, over which ADB has more control than it does when using loan implementation consultants.

Project Number: 38135-013
Project Name: Multisector Rehabilitation and Improvement Project for Azad Jammu and Kashmir
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Project Number: 34337-013
Project Name: Sindh Devolved Social Services Program
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A complete package of assistance should be provided to vocational training institutes (VTIs) to ensure the delivery of quality training. Taking into account existing resources, reducing the number of VTIs assisted could have been a better option vis-a-vis thinly spreading available resources to more VTIs. In some VTIs, for instance, a building was constructed or renovated but only minimal equipment was provided.

Project Number: 31317-012
Project Name: Basic Skills Development Project
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To ensure proper sequencing and smooth coordination between components, the project implementation unit should have been responsible for the overall management of project components. The project provides for both software and hardware assistance as a comprehensive package. GTZ was financing the software side of the project and ADB provides for the hardware support. Since different departments in the Ministry of Labor and Human Resources managed the GTZ and ADB financed components, the sequencing of activities suffered.

Project Number: 31317-012
Project Name: Basic Skills Development Project
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The project team should pay particular attention to selecting the top leadership of assisted institutions to the extent possible, and build in mechanisms to evaluate the performance of VTIs and award good performance to provide incentives. Given the same bureaucratic or external constraints, differences in performance of the VTIs can be attributed largely to differences in the quality of leadership. Furthermore, mechanisms (including incentives) can be established to evaluate and encourage good performance. [Main text, para. 44]

Project Number: 31317-012
Project Name: Basic Skills Development Project
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Bank supervision of project implementation is more critical at the start when implementation arrangements are made operational than when implementation is progressing on schedule. More staff time should be allocated to review missions for projects at widely scattered locations.

Project Number: 22045-013
Project Name: Six Universities Development and Rehabilitation in Indonesia
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The physical appearance of existing buildings, landscape, and teaching equipment at an educational institution is a good indicator of budget allocation for maintenance and commitment by teaching and administrative staff to a good work environment. It should not be assumed that where maintenance of existing facilities is poor, new buildings and teaching equipment provided under a project will fare any better.

Project Number: 22045-013
Project Name: Six Universities Development and Rehabilitation in Indonesia
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The sustainability issue should be given careful attention in designing a project that requires (i) innovative services to be established and continued after loan closing; and (ii) budget allocation, human services, and commitment by decision makers.

Project Number: 22045-013
Project Name: Six Universities Development and Rehabilitation in Indonesia
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A midterm review of a project should not be linked to the timing of another project activity. Such a linkage was found to be counterproductive to the timely and successful implementation of the Project.

Project Number: 22045-013
Project Name: Six Universities Development and Rehabilitation in Indonesia
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Poor design of and quality of completed civil works are linked with inadequate and unqualified supervision at the local project level. To eliminate these potential problems, the main implementing agency for a project should have overall responsibility for the engagement and monitoring of implementation of the services.

Project Number: 22045-013
Project Name: Six Universities Development and Rehabilitation in Indonesia
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Discussion and dialogue on language of instruction (LOI) for ethnic minorities remains a sensitive issue in most countries in the Commonwealth of Independent States. Any debate of change in LOIs should be widely discussed before implementation and aim at (i) improving ethnic minorities' chances to enter the best senior secondary and higher education institutions, and (ii) acquiring language skills necessary for better job opportunities while providing necessary support to maintain their identity. [Main text, paras. 8, 45]

Project Number: 36510-013
Project Name: Second Textbook Development Project
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The teachers' guides could cost effectively support the timely roll out of student centered learning. Teachers' guides could be expanded to identify tools, provide additional referencing to learning materials for teachers, and promote greater use of school libraries. The student centered learning is one of the areas which educators in Uzbekistan need to discuss so that the government can move to a more efficient and cost-effective approach to provision of textbooks, workbooks and teachers' guides. [Main text, para. 45; Appendix 7, paras. 16-17]

Project Number: 36510-013
Project Name: Second Textbook Development Project
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