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Lesson
When designing a project even in a difficult and tenuous political situation, it may be best to be strongly proactive rather than tentative and conservative. In an area that is just recovering from a long civil war, with a practically nonfunctioning implementing agency and a weak government capacity, the ADB preparation team designed a project with a whole gamut of proactive measures to bring about improved water resources management using basin-wide IWRM principles.

Project Number: 36252-013
Project Name: Western Basins Water Resources Management Project
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There is a need for a better computation of costs at appraisal along with the inclusion of realistic contingencies, especially in areas with high security risks. Accurate cost estimates, particularly at appraisal, help minimize adjustments and revisions during implementation. ADB needs to undertake better duediligence of the project cost estimates at appraisal and a more realistic assessment of existing public procurement regulations. The possible inclusion of add-on security risk costs helps minimize cost overruns and poor project results.

Project Number: 42094-032
Project Name: Energy Sector Development Investment Program—Tranche 2
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Where counterpart staff has insufficient capacity, institutions are weak, and where there are few examples of supply and works contracts that form the basis of cost estimates, there is need for a more thorough appraisal process.

Project Number: 37078-013
Project Name: Power Transmission and Distribution Project
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In FCAS situations in particular, the project design has to be based on a fair assessment of security conditions but needs to include contingencies for addressing new security risks during project implementation.

Project Number: 37078-013
Project Name: Power Transmission and Distribution Project
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Lesson
Early delegation of project administration to the resident mission can result in closer working between ADB staff and counterpart officials.

Project Number: 37078-013
Project Name: Power Transmission and Distribution Project
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Lesson
Special measures need to be taken with respect to timing, cost estimations, and availability of contractors in a difficult conflict environment. Lessons learned from the resettlement component needed to be included.

Project Number: 37136-012, 37136-013
Project Name: Regional Airports Rehabilitation Project (Phase 1)
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Lesson
Careful consideration should be given as to whether a project is really qualified for processing under emergency support modalities. In this case, the time saved from rushed preparation was subsequently lost in delays and other problems in implementation.

Project Number: 37075-013
Project Name: Andkhoy–Qaisar Road Project
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Lesson
Project management and monitoring during implementation, especially during the initial stages, is also important. This is because at these stages, more data and information on conditions become available and enable changes to be made to the design to mitigate unforeseen factors that may risk the outcome.

Project Number: 36673-013
Project Name: Emergency Infrastructure Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Project
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The primary lesson is that emergency support requires additional focus on planning and thorough preparation despite the usual time constraints. Given that conditions in such a situation are often uncertain and unreliable, project design needs to be robust to be able to deliver critical relief to the affected population.

Project Number: 36673-013
Project Name: Emergency Infrastructure Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Project
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The validation concurs with these issues and would also add that uncertainty remains regarding the Afghanistan private sector‘s overall ability to absorb credit even when available. Another uncertainty is AIB‘s ability to make up, through increased regular lending to private customers and investing in alternative assets overseas, for the inevitable loss of special situations of the sort (e.g. a sharp reduction in the US army deposits), which had provided AIB some measure of its financial success vis-à-vis very wide interest spreads gained by investing idle US Army cash balances in 12+%.

Project Number: 37903-014
Project Name: Equity Investment in Afghanistan International Bank
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