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The capacity of national civil work contractors in technology and workmanship needs to be developed to ensure that the quality of civil works is on par with international standards. An environmental monitoring group (EMG) should be established in a timely manner with realistic mandates for monitoring environmental impact throughout project implementation, so that it can fulfill its responsibilities, including information sharing and coordination with the local authorities.

Project Number: 40007-013
Project Name: Surkhandarya Water Supply and Sanitation Project
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A thorough review of the project at the midterm review to identify key issues and prepare remedial measures was key to the adequate completion of the project.

Project Number: 37536-013
Project Name: Land Improvement Project
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In addition, a more systematic design would give more scope to the executing agency to develop synergies among outputs and to make systematic changes. For instance, the EKSP offered many ad-hoc teacher training courses through different project activities. But there was no systematic approach to integrate these activities into a comprehensive and structured professional development plan. The core issue that influences the quality of teaching in Sri Lanka is the lack of clear career progression paths with proper professional development opportunities for both teachers and principals.

Project Number: 39293-013
Project Name: Education for Knowledge Society Project
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The salaries of project management unit (PMU) and project implementation unit (PIU) staff should be comparable with prevailing market rates to prevent high turnover.

Project Number: 40007-013
Project Name: Surkhandarya Water Supply and Sanitation Project
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Capacity development requires coordinated institutional and funding mechanisms. The weak local enforcement can be addressed through a good mix of international best practice and contextual understanding. However, the program faced difficulties in the timely recruitment of experts using the country system. The Education Program Support Office (EPSO) partly addressed this issue but was eventually dissolved as a result of discontinued funding, and ad-hoc technical assistance (TA) from development partners increased transaction costs, which is against the spirit of the SWAp.

Project Number: 35174-013, 35174-022, 35174-023, 35174-032
Project Name: Education Sector Program (Subprograms I–III)
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Road safety programs in rural areas need continuous support to remain sustainable. In this respect, project-based interventions need to be designed more carefully with measures of strengthening beneficiary involvement included in the community- based road safety program to sustain its momentum even after project completion.

Project Number: 42358-013
Project Name: GMS - Cambodia Northwest Provincial Road Improvement Project
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The need for further scaling up of the Education Sector Development Program (ESDP) became clear. The Education for Knowledge Society Project (EKSP) upgraded 100 secondary schools and one post-secondary school among many. At the end of the project, there is a clear need to strengthen capacity in more secondary schools, which should be done using a program approach. Specifically, it is necessary to ensure that students in disadvantaged and rural areas have equitable access to quality secondary education, sufficient training is given to teachers, and the needed resources are provided.

Project Number: 39293-013
Project Name: Education for Knowledge Society Project
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The project should not engage individual national consultants for construction supervision if there are many project sites due to limited capacity, unless mitigation measure are adopted. Significant inflation affected contracts. However, the contract amount was not adjusted due to the absence of price adjustment provisions in the contract documents, even in cases where the contract period was extended beyond 18 months. Price adjustments should be considered for contracts of less than 18 months when high inflation is likely to occur.

Project Number: 40007-013
Project Name: Surkhandarya Water Supply and Sanitation Project
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The loss of much of the evaluative work and studies done under the Education Sector Project II (ESPII) when key staff departed leaving no document archive and the inability to provide quality data for the project completion report highlight the importance of institutionalizing a strong system for monitoring, evaluation, and learning.

Project Number: 34285-013
Project Name: Education Sector Project II
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The new curriculum provides a starting point for confident, capable teachers but is reportedly challenging for weak teachers. Developing the curriculum in the language the teachers use to plan and deliver their lessons (Samoan) would have lessened the risk of creating new vocabulary and provided a better base for weak teachers.

Project Number: 34285-013
Project Name: Education Sector Project II
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Although capacity has been developed (though not always retained) at an individual level, the benefits are less evident within MESC or more broadly. Capacity development could have been greater had MESC capacity been thoroughly assessed during design or had design fully considered the absorptive capacity of a small ministry. High staff turnover at the management level also contributed to challenges in building capacity.

Project Number: 34285-013
Project Name: Education Sector Project II
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Greater flexibility in design and adherence to targets might have enabled more discussion and better communication and decision making within an ambitious time frame, especially during the first year. The design and monitoring framework (DMF) could have been revised early on, reducing the pressure on the Ministry of Education, Sport, and Culture (MESC) and alleviating the sense that they were not achieving results.

Project Number: 34285-013
Project Name: Education Sector Project II
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The Education Sector Plan is ambitious. Human capacity can easily be overloaded by attempting too many simultaneous reforms. Having fewer, but well-sequenced and phased priorities, is likely to have more impact.

Project Number: 34285-013
Project Name: Education Sector Project II
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The technical assistance (TA) fostered a gradual but notable increase in the Weinan Municipal Government (WMG) appreciation for waterbird and saltpan management, confirming the importance of the training activities. This was demonstrated by the project management office (PMO) promoting the values of the Luyanghu saltpans after the TA. The TA benefited from the small but strong consultant team, which networked effectively with the WMG and Shaanxi Department of Forestry and resulted in scaling up of the training to involve virtually all provincial wetland agencies.

Project Number: 44037-014
Project Name: Shaanxi Weinan Luyang Integrated Saline Land Management Project
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No new lessons

Project Number: 41123-013
Project Name: Road Asset Management Project
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