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Lesson
Adequate tenure of key staff members in executing and implementing agencies is important for smooth and speedy implementation.

Project Number: 39114-013
Project Name: Tsunami Emergency Assistance (Sector) Project
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As experienced in all past ADB-financed emergency assistance projects in Bangladesh, delegation of authority to the ADB resident mission in the borrower's country is essential for effective monitoring and immediate decision-making. [Main text, paras. 16, 29, 30, 56]

Project Number: 42166-013
Project Name: Emergency Assistance for Food Security Project
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For short-duration and emergency assistance projects, ADB should maintain better coordination with the executing agency throughout the whole project period and afterward to assess the project's impact in the next few years. [Main text, para. 55]

Project Number: 42166-013
Project Name: Emergency Assistance for Food Security Project
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Experience from the project demonstrates that prompt loan processing and disbursement is crucial to success of such budgetary support provided during a crisis situation. [Main text, paras. 10, 11, 54]

Project Number: 42166-013
Project Name: Emergency Assistance for Food Security Project
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Safety net programs are proven effective for mitigating critical food crises at times of price increases and natural disasters. Implementation of safety net programs requires experienced and committed human resources for food management, transparent identification of beneficiaries, and systematic and efficient distribution of food grains among beneficiaries. Finally, close monitoring oversight and evaluation are essential for improving the implementation and impact of safety net programs.

Project Number: 42166-013
Project Name: Emergency Assistance for Food Security Project
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Project implementation could have been improved with appropriate interagency coordination and support on civil works design and supervision. Following the restructuring of Public Works Department in the early phase of project implementation, a new mechanism was required to ensure proper supervision during subproject design and construction. As the midterm review for the ESP II noted, an education ministry cannot be expected to have the technical resources for this purpose.

Project Number: 30175-013
Project Name: Education Sector Project
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Studies of affordability and the cost and efficiency of school operations and community appreciation of economic issues were needed. The IEM's school survey highlighted the thin spread of limited resources across the formal education system, which was also noted in the 2006 National Human Development Report for Samoa. Undertaking economic analysis of the education sector with examination of affordability issues would encourage policy development toward a more efficient use of resources such as specialist teachers and modern educational technology, including computers in schools.

Project Number: 30175-013
Project Name: Education Sector Project
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Aid harmonization was difficult due to procedural issues. Lessons from the ESP PCR regarding harmonization of external inputs were applied to the ESP II under a sector-wide approach. While progress in harmonization of aid arrangements has been recognized in the recent evaluation of the implementation of aid effectiveness principles by the Government of Samoa, the funding agencies and government partners noted continuing problems, as arrangements require them to conform to ADB procurement systems, which are difficult to apply in a very small island country.

Project Number: 30175-013
Project Name: Education Sector Project
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Lesson
Upfront work is needed to use the sector lending modality. Project management flexibility provided to the borrower or executing agency may negatively affect project implementation and, consequently, the achievement and sustainability of project outcomes.

Project Number: 30175-013
Project Name: Education Sector Project
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No new lessons

Project Number: 30207-013, 30207-023
Project Name: Power Sector Development Program
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No new lessons

Project Number: 29603-013
Project Name: Malakand Rural Development Project
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Project delays could have been reduced significantly by identifying and deploying qualified staff during project preparation, keeping those staff throughout implementation, obtaining early government approval for the project, and taking advance action on the recruitment of consultants before the loan agreement was signed.

Project Number: 32193-013
Project Name: Northwest Crop Diversification Project
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The selection of capable nongovernment organizations (NGOs) was critical to ensuring effective delivery of services and for sustaining project activities.

Project Number: 32193-013
Project Name: Northwest Crop Diversification Project
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Post-project monitoring and evaluation systems need to be designed for the project during the planning phase to ensure ongoing innovation and sustainability of the project impacts.

Project Number: 32193-013
Project Name: Northwest Crop Diversification Project
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All project components should have been based on need assessment. This was particularly true of the activities for agribusiness credit piloting and infrastructure for marketing and the facilities at the horticulture training and demonstration centers (HTDCs). Failure to assess needs and conditions for these components adequately meant that the outputs were not used fully or successfully.

Project Number: 32193-013
Project Name: Northwest Crop Diversification Project
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