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First-time executing and implementing agencies need handholding on ADB processes and requirements.

Project Number: 42291-025
Project Name: Higher Education in the Pacific Investment Program (Tranche 1)
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Ensuring quality higher education requires more than just improving school infrastructure and physical environments.

Project Number: 42291-025
Project Name: Higher Education in the Pacific Investment Program (Tranche 1)
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Adequate time has to be allotted to monitoring and evaluation.

Project Number: 42291-025
Project Name: Higher Education in the Pacific Investment Program (Tranche 1)
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The need to confirm the executing agency’s commitment in terms of capacity and resources at appraisal. A more rigorous stakeholder analysis would have identified potential weaknesses and more emphasis could have been given to capacity development from the outset.

Project Number: 32200-013, 32200-023
Project Name: Fiji: Suva–Nausori Water Supply and Sewerage Project
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Project performance monitoring and evaluation capacity building would have been helpful, possibly enhancing overall project performance; and

Project Number: 32200-013, 32200-023
Project Name: Fiji: Suva–Nausori Water Supply and Sewerage Project
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The PMU-R had defined procedures for organizational empowerment and accountability, but the PMU-R was not available throughout the project to guide implementation of these measures. Continuation of the TA (which was implemented from 2003 to 2006) on capacity development would have been helpful.

Project Number: 32200-013, 32200-023
Project Name: Fiji: Suva–Nausori Water Supply and Sewerage Project
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No additional lessons

Project Number: 43110-013
Project Name: Republic of Fiji: Emergency Flood Recovery (Sector) Project
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Lesson
ADB disaster response operations often involve executing and implementing agencies with capacity that is limited either inherently or due to the impacts of an emergency. This is particularly the case in countries such as Fiji where institutional capacity is often weak. The project inception report identified this as an issue facing the Ministry of Works, Transport, and Public Utilities (MWTPU), the main implementing agency for the project.

Project Number: 43110-013
Project Name: Emergency Flood Recovery (Sector) Project
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Project monitoring and reporting by the government were inadequate. ADB must ensure that mechanisms are in place for necessary data gathering and monitoring, and make sure that project covenants in this respect are complied with.

Project Number: 43110-013
Project Name: Emergency Flood Recovery (Sector) Project
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ADB and the executing and implementing agencies must ensure that adequately skilled and experienced consultants are fielded to provide the inputs required for effective project design and implementation. The report and recommendation of the president (RRP) explicitly noted that adequate consultant support would be particularly important for disbursements based on experience in emergency assistance projects in the Pacific when design, contracting, and supervision expertise had been insufficient.

Project Number: 43110-013
Project Name: Emergency Flood Recovery (Sector) Project
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Growth rates in traffic forecasts in conflict affected areas should be conservative when preparing project designs

Project Number: 42533-022
Project Name: Hairatan to Mazar-e-Sharif Railway Project
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Where there is a risk of incurring losses as in the case of the project, it is essential to define sustainable sources of funding to cover those losses when designing projects, to ensure project economic viability and long-term sustainability

Project Number: 42533-022
Project Name: Hairatan to Mazar-e-Sharif Railway Project
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O&M costs should reflect actual conditions

Project Number: 42533-022
Project Name: Hairatan to Mazar-e-Sharif Railway Project
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Support to HIV/AIDs should have been considered relative to other health issues in the Pacific. At the time of project design it would have been interesting to know what the main causes of death in the Pacific were, and where AIDS stood in relation to these.

Project Number: 38599-022
Project Name: HIV/AIDS Prevention and Capacity Development in the Pacific
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Given that multiple streams of funding for HIV/AIDS were already available, it may have been more efficient for ADB to work in partnership with another donor who had more experience and technical expertise in HIV/AIDS.

Project Number: 38599-022
Project Name: HIV/AIDS Prevention and Capacity Development in the Pacific
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