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Lesson
It is important to take stock of and learn from other development partners’ experience and learnings in similar projects as they can share valuable lessons to inform project design. A failure to account for previous projects’ lessons can have significant costs in project effectiveness

Project Number: 45098-001
Project Name: Project Preparation and Start-Up Support Facility
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Protracted bidding can compromise the implementation of projects. One of the major issues encountered by this project was the protracted bidding process undertaken by the executing agency (EA). The bidding process for the civil works and construction supervision contracts took more than 1 year to complete because of the EA’s unfamiliarity with the updated ADB guidelines. It added to an initial delay of more than 1 year because of changes in the road design, which required updating the design, feasibility study, and tender documents.

Project Number: 50063-001
Project Name: Kashkadarya Regional Road Project
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Careful consideration of typically applied engineering solutions and examination of project readiness with the use of an agreed upon checklist will help mitigate implementation risks and synchronize startup and financial activities. Engineering solutions that are typically considered could have been looked into during project appraisal, as any changes introduced after loan approval will impact the project cost and implementation period.

Project Number: 50063-001
Project Name: Kashkadarya Regional Road Project
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Greater familiarization with ADB’s guidelines on the conduct of project-level economic and financial analyses helps facilitate assessments of a project’s economic viability and financial profitability.

Project Number: 44058-013
Project Name: Kathmandu Sustainable Urban Transport Project
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A well-established project performance management system, covering the initial phase of project implementation up to post completion, allows a more systematic collection of baseline, implementation, and post-completion data and information that facilitates a more robust analyses of a project’s outcome and impacts.

Project Number: 44058-013
Project Name: Kathmandu Sustainable Urban Transport Project
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When innovative mechanisms such as PPP are to be used, it is critical to build capacity in the implementing agencies and to provide adequate and timely technical support.

Project Number: 37091-013, 37091-022, 37091-023
Project Name: Agribusiness Infrastructure Development Investment Program
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Program implementation risks can be reduced through a more detailed private sector assessment at project design.

Project Number: 37091-013, 37091-022, 37091-023
Project Name: Agribusiness Infrastructure Development Investment Program
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Lesson
A more detailed assessment of private sector preferences for investment needs to be conducted at project design stages to reduce project implementation risks.

Project Number: 37091-033
Project Name: Agribusiness Infrastructure Development Investment Program (Tranche 2)
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No additional lessons

Project Number: 34113
Project Name: Small and Medium Enterprise Export Development Project
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Lesson
The lessons drawn by the PCR are valuable to ADB. ADB needs to seriously consider the socioeconomic and political environments in designing projects. Implementing a project in an unstable environment is not likely to yield positive outcomes. Proper timing is important in introducing a project especially when it entails a paradigm shift (i.e., from supply-led to demand driven). The experience with this project highlighted the need for greater coordination with other donors in addressing the country’s strategic development needs.

Project Number: 32541-013
Project Name: Fiji: Alternative Livelihoods Development Project
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Lesson
Poor countries are rightly skeptical of borrowing only for consulting services because in the absence of the requisite infrastructure they fail to internalize outputs and derive gains from the institutional reforms in full. This affects the extent to which government ownership materializes through the course of implementation. The RRP summarized the lessons identified from prior financial sector reform projects (RRP, page 11, para. 35) on government ownership in terms of the reform agenda.

Project Number: 28332-013
Project Name: Corporate and Financial Governance Project
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Weak capacity of project staff results in procedural lapses, possible violations of the loan agreement, and slow implementation. Moreover, stringent internal audit controls and close monitoring of expenditures bring more transparency in financial transactions.

Project Number: 36654-013
Project Name: Restructuring of the Technical Education and Vocational Training System Project (Balochistan)
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Given the weak capacity of the executing and implementing agencies, consultants should have been recruited before loan effectiveness. Had the consulting services been available, the project would most likely have achieved at least some of its objectives.

Project Number: 36654-013
Project Name: Restructuring of the Technical Education and Vocational Training System Project (Balochistan)
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Frequent changes in project administration at ADB caused confusion and had a negative effect on project implementation. During the project, administration moved from the South Asia Department to the Central and West Asia Department, and from the Social Sector Division, via the Governance and Finance Division, to the Pakistan Resident Mission.

Project Number: 36654-013
Project Name: Restructuring of the Technical Education and Vocational Training System Project (Balochistan)
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During the inception mission, the KPK government requested a reallocation of loan proceeds in line with what was agreed to during loan negotiations. The requested reallocation required a major change in scope, which was proposed to take place during the midterm review mission, scheduled for the third year of project implementation. The midterm review mission does not necessarily need to come in the middle of the project period; it can be scheduled early on, for instance in the first year of project implementation, if it would help to get the project going after a slow start.

Project Number: 38178-013
Project Name: Restructuring of the Technical Education and Vocational Training System Project (North-West Frontier Province)
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