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Project Number: 38236-022
Project Name: Dushanbe–Kyrgyz Border Road Rehabilitation Project, Phase II
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The inclusion of contractors from countries with existing international sanctions, such as Iran, could create difficulty in sourcing the required input items to be used under the project.

Project Number: 40043-013
Project Name: Afghanistan and Tajikistan: Regional Power Transmission Interconnection Project
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A monitoring and evaluation system needs to be permanently established within the Ministry of Water Resources and Land Reclamation. While it was established as part of project management, M&E was discontinued after the PMO closed. Hence, project specific data cannot be provided for evaluating long-term outcomes, impact, and poverty reduction.

Project Number: 32494-023
Project Name: Agriculture Rehabilitation Project
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The phasing of cost recovery and measures to ensure sustainable operation and maintenance of tertiary systems should have been identified at the outset. Transferring management of tertiary irrigation and drainage systems to beneficiaries as a means for participatory water management was appropriate and in line with IWRM principles. However, the phasing of cost recovery and measures needed for WUAs to become sustainable should have been made clear at the outset. Measures for achieving full cost recovery should have been identified early in the implementation process.

Project Number: 32494-023
Project Name: Agriculture Rehabilitation Project
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Mechanisms for sustaining support services for dehkan farms should have been incorporated in the project design. Agricultural support provided to dehkan farms was limited to the duration of the project. No mechanisms were put in place to ensure sustainability of benefits beyond the project’s life. The activities of demonstrations farms were very helpful to dehkan farms in increasing productivity, but these were stopped after project completion. Further, most of these demonstration farms were distributed to individual and family dehkan farms after completion of the project.

Project Number: 32494-023
Project Name: Agriculture Rehabilitation Project
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Where there is capacity to coordinate directly and where the executing and implementing agencies are the same, such as in this project, a project steering committee may not be necessary.

Project Number: 37644-013
Project Name: Regional Customs Modernization and Infrastructure Development Project
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Although the economic and financial benefits of the project were substantial for Afghanistan, they would have been greater if investment in distribution had been undertaken in a timely manner to take advantage of the capacity to import electricity through the project transmission line. The transmission line is currently used at less than full capacity - about 200 MW. It is possible to energize it to transmit up to 600 MW of electricity.

Project Number: 40043-013
Project Name: Regional Power Transmission Interconnection Project (Afghanistan and Tajikistan)
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Lesson
Financial management assessments undertaken at appraisal need to fully assess the potential for executing agencies to provide the level of funding proposed in the project financing plan to avoid cancelation of project activities that may negatively affect project viability and sustainability.

Project Number: 40043-013
Project Name: Regional Power Transmission Interconnection Project (Afghanistan and Tajikistan)
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Lesson
The Afghanistan component of the project demonstrated that importing relatively inexpensive electricity from Tajikistan, and elsewhere if available, can result in enormous economic benefits to Afghanistan and financial benefits to Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (Afghanistan Power Utility). It would be prudent for the Government of Afghanistan and ADB to pursue further investments in the power sector to take advantage of surplus electricity in neighboring countries.

Project Number: 40043-013
Project Name: Regional Power Transmission Interconnection Project (Afghanistan and Tajikistan)
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Lesson
In conflict-affected economies, it may be more appropriate to focus reforms on (i) rebuilding capacity, (ii) institutionalizing the process of conducting sustainable reforms based on transparency and participation, and (iii) propagating good public governance principles that are likely to be more enduring.

Project Number: 37393-032, 37393-042
Project Name: Private Sector and Financial Market Development Program
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The approach should be supported by an agreed road map, matched closely with available institutional capacities, with enough flexibility for continuing review and corrective actions, and supported by required technical assistance, until such time that the country exhibits maturity of institutions, strong internal capacity, and political and economic stability.

Project Number: 37393-032, 37393-042
Project Name: Private Sector and Financial Market Development Program
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Regarding program design in small, transition economies, it may be more prudent to take a gradual approach to private sector and financial market development, taking smaller slices of the development pie (financed with single-tranche loans) within a short time horizon.

Project Number: 37393-032, 37393-042
Project Name: Private Sector and Financial Market Development Program
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ADB’s similar institutional reform programs in Afghanistan should include a specific and realistic strategy for capacity development, taking into account the following: (i) without absorptive capacity in ministries, very little technical skills transfer will occur; (ii) sustained recourse to resident international advisors may perpetuate the dependency of decision makers on such advisors; and (iii) in the absence of specific terms of reference for international advisors, their contributions will tend to crowd out inputs provided by the learning process of local staff

Project Number: 37393-032, 37393-042
Project Name: Private Sector and Financial Market Development Program
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Each new outbreak of disease confronts projects such as this one, as well as the implementing partners and global community, with a fresh challenge, because its early spread outpaces the gathering of scientific evidence needed to formulate containment policies. Each successive outbreak is followed by an initial opaque period characterized by a frustrating lack of scientific evidence on which to base policies and technical guidance.

Project Number: 39662-012
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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Lesson
The rapid launch and accelerated implementation of the project made necessary by the threat that avian influenza would become a pandemic made it difficult to define verifiable indicators for a number of the outputs under the regional capacity building and regional coordination components. A mid-term review of the project would have facilitated a review and updating of the design and monitoring framework.

Project Number: 39662-012
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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