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The level of complexity of the National Land Information System (NLIS) was also a challenge for ADB. While the technical assistance consultant provided useful reporting and briefing notes, the consultant and ADB were unable to prevent delays that resulted from the negotiations between the executing agency and contractor. More technical support during NLIS design could have helped.

Project Number: 30531-013
Project Name: Cadastral Survey and Land Registration Project
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Future projects designed to address rural gravel road maintenance issues need to be more carefully designed through (i) identification of project roads during appraisal; (ii) identification of suitable gravel sources in proximity of the project roads; and (iii) prior commitment from each pradeshiya sabha to participate in the project, including prior establishment and commitment of funds to a road maintenance account.

Project Number: 31282-013
Project Name: Southern Province Rural Economic Advancement Project
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Community participation in all stages of implementation, from identification to design to construction processes, is critical for the success of investments.

Project Number: 31197-013
Project Name: Community-Based Infrastructure Services Sector Project
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The text book rental scheme (TRS) can serve as one of the models on textbook provision for other countries in Central Asia given the efficiency and effectiveness by which it was implemented. Contributing to the successful implementation of this scheme is the government's commitment and the design's alignment to government's priorities. Resources were used efficiently to establish functional arrangements that ensured sustainability of funding and made available and affordable textbooks to students and teacher's guides to teachers.

Project Number: 36510-013
Project Name: Second Textbook Development Project
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The program was overly ambitious in its scope and in its implementation structure. Only after modification of the scope and implementation arrangements was progress made. This could have been avoided, had a proper risk assessment and risk mitigation plan been prepared, based on the lessons learned from the previous program. Although the Pasig River Development Plan provided a good framework for the implementation of environmental improvement projects, more and longer-term assistance is required to establish the institutional setting for its effective implementation.

Project Number: 30308-013
Project Name: Pasig River Environmental Management and Rehabilitation Sector Development Program
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Policy reforms should not be too numerous and should be well integrated into an overall project. Highest priority should be given to policy reforms (and covenants) that are necessary for project implementation or sustainability. A stakeholder analysis should be conducted for all proposed policy reforms, and a strategy developed for moving systematically to the desired policy reform reflected in the project's design and monitoring framework.

Project Number: 31242-013
Project Name: Second Health Sector Development Project
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Except for special circumstances, such as when a pilot project is small or the executing agency is experienced in project implementation, the project design should be simplified to ease implementation. Generally, the focus should be on a single sector with a minimum number of types of measures. Although the project focused on rural development and agriculture, it comprised different measures (rural business strengthening, irrigation and drainage system enhancement, and cotton and wheat quota system reform) as a result of incorporating most of the challenges encountered in the sector.

Project Number: 30458-013
Project Name: Ak Altin Agricultural Development Project
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Future projects need to address issues associated with the financial capacity of pradeshiya sabhas to develop and maintain rural infrastructure through closer monitoring, obtaining greater commitments from provincial and local organizations, and the use of soft loans for capital works tied to user-pay financial plans for civil works such as rural markets, where a financing charges mechanism already exists.

Project Number: 31282-013
Project Name: Southern Province Rural Economic Advancement Project
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Elements of the project were technically complex. While the technical assistance consultants did a good job of specifying the system requirements, there were insufficient resources to fully familiarize the client with the technical approach, and to moderate requests for system enhancements. As a result, there was a communication gap between the client and the National Land Information System (NLIS) contractor, which ultimately resulted in the system design moving away from the structure originally specified.

Project Number: 30531-013
Project Name: Cadastral Survey and Land Registration Project
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Procurement problems can be reduced by introducing prior review of procurement documents. In a sector project with many small subprojects, contracts should be grouped into larger packages to reduce the number of civil works contacts. This will help the PMUs as well as ADB to concentrate more effectively on fewer contracts. Use of clear and stringent evaluation and qualification criteria in selection of contractors should be mandatory, and establishing consortia of contractors should be encouraged.

Project Number: 31197-013
Project Name: Community-Based Infrastructure Services Sector Project
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Given that the idea of community-based preschools was innovative for the country, sufficient time should be given for a legal and regulatory framework to be established to adequately serve preschool educational services at the community level.

Project Number: 32143-013
Project Name: Community-Based Early Childhood Development Project
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Establishing a joint project management unit at sector level can be a more efficient and cost-effective solution and help ensure a harmonized approach among the financing institutions.

Project Number: 31197-013
Project Name: Community-Based Infrastructure Services Sector Project
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Because the government had already purchased most of the housing prior to ADB loan approval, it could not be financed by the loan. ADB funds were therefore directed toward facilities. If ADB had not been involved in the project, the host communities would have received these community facilities much later and they would probably have been of a lower quality.

Project Number: 30308-013
Project Name: Pasig River Environmental Management and Rehabilitation Sector Development Program
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Since the project had two implementing agencies supervised by different agencies, project coordination was difficult. A more suitable arrangement involving dual implementation agencies may be through a region-based apex financial institution, which is also assigned responsibility for establishment and operation of enterprise development service support activities and works closely with the regional organization responsible for sustaining the enabling environment.

Project Number: 31282-013
Project Name: Southern Province Rural Economic Advancement Project
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Mongolia is a large country with a small population and limited technical capacity. The project represented a major change to existing practices in institutions with few technical resources and limited technical capacity. In future interventions of this type, greater emphasis should be placed on measures to build technical and management capacity in the executing, implementing, and end-user institutions.

Project Number: 30531-013
Project Name: Cadastral Survey and Land Registration Project
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