Challenges and Lessons Learned Clause Samples
The "Challenges and Lessons Learned" clause serves to document and analyze difficulties encountered and insights gained during the execution of a project or agreement. Typically, this clause requires parties to identify specific obstacles faced, describe how they were addressed, and summarize key takeaways or recommendations for future improvement. Its core practical function is to promote continuous improvement by ensuring that valuable experiences are captured and shared, helping to prevent the recurrence of similar issues in future projects.
Challenges and Lessons Learned. Plans for the innovation after Project completion
Challenges and Lessons Learned. Changes in project rationale Main constraints faced: Partnership: close collaboration with MoH and jointly monitoring and decision-making ensured timely problem-solving in a particularly difficult year and achievement of planned results as per donor expectations Donor programmatic and financial coordination: In collaboration with National Logistics Working Group, through the Gavi, 02 cold rooms were acquired to be installed in the Medical Warehouse Chimoio. UNDP just started with the MoH-CMAM, with funding from GFATM, a full Rehabilitation Project for the Administrative building, including Demolition and Construction with Expansion up to more than 5200 pallet capacity for Medical Warehouse in Beira city, Sofala province – that is also to have cold rooms for vaccines. In addition, UNDP is also planning in same context to install a second incinerator in Nampula, to serve North Region, and for which the toolkit and materials that are planned to be prepared under Gavi TCA will be adopted, as UNDP is standardizing the equipment and complementing the necessary National guidelines in line with existing policies homologated by Government for appropriation and sustainability.
Challenges and Lessons Learned. Description of next steps, overview of the Project plan for the next six months, and anticipated outcomes
Challenges and Lessons Learned. Challenges
Challenges and Lessons Learned. One of the challenges of making further improvements in several locations was the damage done to the main municipal sewer lines. In these instances, local officials asked that facilities be provided with sewage pits, but this is something Injaz 2 was unable to do due to the environmental concerns they would raise and the restrictions in the cooperative agreement against construction. Another challenge raised by the NES WASH working group was the need to increase the formal education sector’s ability to maintain rehabilitated WASH facilities. Injaz 2 also noted that some schools struggled to maintain cleanliness and functionality of repaired items and prevent theft of water taps. This is an area where Injaz 3 can coordinate more closely with the WASH working group to identify successful approaches to improving maintenance.
Challenges and Lessons Learned. Reduced lockdown levels from the mid-September allowed for more participants in training sessions. However, a number of participants registered for the last two training courses could not attend at the last minute due to operational issues and retrenchments at several USAID partners. As a result, JSI was not able to fully reach the target of 250 trainees during this period. • Given COVID-related and MOU approval delays, JSI has effectively had less than two months of implementation time in the fiscal year. Nevertheless, the team made demonstrable progress against fiscal year targets for targeted community testing and community-based initiation of patients on ART in particular. • JSI has struggled to obtain lists of elicited partners of index clients from public health facilities. JSI is working with the facilities to receive the lists on a weekly basis by meeting with individual facilities to establish a good working relationship. This includes regular visits to the facility and meeting with facility managers to discuss the project and the support that the project is providing. These visits require constant convincing by JSI project staff regarding the benefits for the facilities and the community, and how the project will support the facility to address any challenges that may arise from this collaboration. • JSI staff offered guidance to facility counselors on how to elicit sufficient detail about client addresses. JSI counselors are well acquainted with the community and know the finer details of indicating places of residence in Alexandra where addresses can be difficult to find. For example, 74 of the 105 contacts provided by the health facilities were traced but not found. Getting more accurate client location details could help JSI staff find a higher proportion of index contacts. • Staff at some facilities are hesitant to continue treatment of clients initiated by EpiC JSI NIMART nurses. JSI will continue to work with all nine facilities and the respective staff to clarify the referral process for continuation of ART treatment. • In line with the regional guidelines JSI will limit HIV self-testing to directly supervised HIV self- testing. As assisted HIV self-testing requires more staff involvement and time, this will have significant implications for target achievement and JSI requests FHI South Africa’s assistance in clarifying this issue with the Mission and supporting target revisions, if necessary. • COVID challenges related to workplace testi...
Challenges and Lessons Learned. New and Existing Partnerships
Challenges and Lessons Learned. Due to the drought conditions in some areas, communities are migrating further in search of water. CRS’ DFSA is looking into this and while we expect that the upcoming rains will see many of these households return (as has been the case with past drought like conditions), there has been some impact on the program – for example, some members are missing from some regular SPX group meetings such as CCG and functional literacy. Activities, however, are continuing with the remaining members of the CCGs and FAL participants (and any FAL participants who have left will be encouraged to complete the sessions once they return). A couple of assessments have also been impacted where sampled households were not available. Note that this has also been reported in JEOP’s March 2021 Early Warning Report. • Dire Dawa Administrative Council passed a new circular to give priority to jobless youth living in Dire Dawa City for the job opportunities expected to be created by the new industrial parks. It is anticipated that over 20, 000 job will be created by these industrial parks when the businesses are fully operational. However, this decision is a challenge for youth living in the East Hararghe as it suggests they will be ineligible. CRS’ DFSA will engage with the Dire Dawa Administrative Council on this decision as it seems to be contrary to federal guidelines (industrial parks are under federal administration). • Frontline government staff, namely DAs, HEWs and HDAs, are busy with additional tasks related to election mobilization and so are continually changing pre-set schedules. However, CRS DFSA is actively managing this with regular discussions with Woreda Sector Offices and amending schedules as needed.
Challenges and Lessons Learned. Even prior to the covid pandemic, challenges arose in how to keep students focused on learning and how to keep track of them. In extreme cases, some children dropped out and returned multiple times and the project and the partner CBOs did not have a means to track their attendance. Once the pandemic-related restrictions took hold, learning became that much harder. This led to creative solutions to continue learning to the greatest degree possible (see box).
Challenges and Lessons Learned. The overall use of spirometer and colposcopes during outreach visits was lower than expected. MOT experience shows that population coverage (spirometry) and practicability of equipment use during outreach visits (colposcopy) shall be better considered while planning the scope of future projects’ activities. WV approach to hand over underutilized equipment to PHC facilities for temporary use was a good solution that allowed increased utilization of equipment by PHC institutions.