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A project focusing on microfinance could help remove obstacles to micro-insurance or other risk transfer schemes in the agricultural sector. The project did not create a market for micro-insurance as envisaged.

Project Number: 45389-001, 45389-002, 45389-003, 45389-004
Project Name: Building Climate Resilience in the Pyanj River Basin
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Timing and location are essential to the participation of women in gender-related and other project activities. Implementation of this project’s gender action plan (GAP) was challenged by the wide geographic dispersion of households, which created difficulties in gathering project participants for training. The gender awareness campaigns also coincided with the harvest season, which made it difficult for farmer-beneficiaries to take part.

Project Number: 45389-001, 45389-002, 45389-003, 45389-004
Project Name: Building Climate Resilience in the Pyanj River Basin
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Less stringent selection criteria, which enables the participation of more eligible financial institutions, could optimize the impact of microlending short-term, low-interest loans in unbanked but regularly earning agricultural communities. The selection of partner participating financial institutions (PFIs) for the microlending component of this project may have been too strict. This resulted in the participation of only 3 of the 6 large PFIs in Tajikistan, all of which are foreign-owned and likely to have been effective partners.

Project Number: 45389-001, 45389-002, 45389-003, 45389-004
Project Name: Building Climate Resilience in the Pyanj River Basin
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A thorough assessment of the financial management capacity of executing agencies (EAs) is required to mitigate the risk of financial issues disrupting project implementation or leading to non-compliance to loan covenants/grant agreements. The Agency for Land Reclamation and Irrigation (ALRI), the EA for 2 of this project’s 4 intended outputs, did not monitor the commercial bank that held the advance accounts for said outputs. When the bank became insolvent, part of the advance accounts was frozen, and was refunded only after government intervention albeit with significant delay.

Project Number: 45389-001, 45389-002, 45389-003, 45389-004
Project Name: Building Climate Resilience in the Pyanj River Basin
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A short repayment schedule can cause liquidity shortages for participating financial institutions and affect the ongoing disbursement of green finance loans. With monthly repayments on a 3-year loan and approved sub-loan terms of up to 5 years, a maturity mismatch can occur, which is what appears to have happened with Arvand.

Project Number: 45229-001
Project Name: Access to Green Finance Project: Project Completion Report
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Participating financial institutions (PFIs) achieve all the number and volume targets in terms of disbursing a credit line (as it is their core activity), but then fall short on achieving a strategic shift towards the project’s qualitative objective, which in this case was to build a strong relationship between the PFIs, the smart green energy solutions suppliers, and the borrowers for the provision and adoption of green finance, as well as making the PFIs’ loan officers semi-experts on smart green energy solutions products, technologies, quality standards and specifications, supplier asse

Project Number: 45229-001
Project Name: Access to Green Finance Project: Project Completion Report
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Conducting a beneficiary survey is an excellent tool to provide evidence-based assessment of project results.

Project Number: 45432-002
Project Name: Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 6 (Ayni–Uzbekistan Border Road) Improvement Project
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To address the long-term sustainability of the project, an adequate maintenance program should be considered at the design stage.

Project Number: 45432-002
Project Name: Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 6 (Ayni–Uzbekistan Border Road) Improvement Project
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ADB project teams should work with the government and civil society to design and implement longer-term HIV-AIDs solutions that continue beyond the project’s term.

Project Number: 45432-002
Project Name: Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 6 (Ayni–Uzbekistan Border Road) Improvement Project
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Investments in strengthening bilateral relations are equally important as those for border infrastructure.

Project Number: 45432-002
Project Name: Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 6 (Ayni–Uzbekistan Border Road) Improvement Project
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For project classified as effective gender mainstreaming, sex-disaggregated data should be included in the GAP and provided with budget allocations to properly quantify gender-related benefits.

Project Number: 45432-002
Project Name: Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 6 (Ayni–Uzbekistan Border Road) Improvement Project
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No additional lessons

Project Number: 42052-022
Project Name: Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 3 (Dushanbe–Uzbekistan Border) Improvement Project
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Procurement training and regular updates will promote smoother procurement in future ADB projects in Tajikistan.

Project Number: 45432-002
Project Name: Central Asia Regional EconomicCooperation Corridor 6 (Ayni-Uzbekistan Border Road) Improvement Project
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Incorporation into the project design of robust measures to address IA capacity gaps helps ensure the success of projects.

Project Number: 45432-002
Project Name: Central Asia Regional EconomicCooperation Corridor 6 (Ayni-Uzbekistan Border Road) Improvement Project
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Careful consideration of topographic and geological factors strengthens the design and promotes the successful implementation of road projects.

Project Number: 45432-002
Project Name: Central Asia Regional EconomicCooperation Corridor 6 (Ayni-Uzbekistan Border Road) Improvement Project
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