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Weak entrepreneurial skills, lack of financial literacy, and lack of viable projects affect the bankability of potential microfinance clients. Business development skills training primarily aimed at capacity development, skills transfer, financial literacy, and business advice help in enhancing the bankability of clients as well performance and viability of their businesses.

Project Number: 44304-013
Project Name: Microfinance Expansion Project
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An adequate assessment of institutional implementation capacity during project preparation enables identification of suitable expertise and skills set needed to facilitate project implementation. In country context where there is weak implementation capacity, complex designs with multiple components require experienced experts to enable better quality of project implementation. For example, in selecting the consultant-specialists, rigorous vetting and screening process helps in ensuring that the selected consultant is the most qualified expert for the required technical expertise.

Project Number: 44304-013
Project Name: Microfinance Expansion Project
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Staff perception of comparatively lower salaries could erode their morale and lead to frequent turnover.

Project Number: 44304-013, 44304-014, 44304-015
Project Name: Microfinance Expansion Project
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All expenditures allocated to a single cost category should be allocated to a single cost center.

Project Number: 44304-013, 44304-014, 44304-015
Project Name: Microfinance Expansion Project
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A single database, accessible to all project staff, will make monitoring and reporting easier and project decision-making more reliable and consistent.

Project Number: 44304-013, 44304-014, 44304-015
Project Name: Microfinance Expansion Project
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Project targets need to be carefully determined and adjusted as necessary to ensure that they are realistic and achievable.

Project Number: 44304-013, 44304-014, 44304-015
Project Name: Microfinance Expansion Project
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Significant implementation support is required for ADB-financed projects in PNG.

Project Number: 44304-013, 44304-014, 44304-015
Project Name: Microfinance Expansion Project
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A dedicated, full-time monitoring and evaluation (M&E) staff or consultant is necessary for timely and reliable project performance monitoring and reporting.

Project Number: 44304-013, 44304-014, 44304-015
Project Name: Microfinance Expansion Project
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A financially sound institution dedicated to finance projects in renewable energy subsector, with the national government’s support, signals country’s strong commitment to achieve its goals in the subsector. This, together with favorable regulatory environment, is instrumental in providing the right incentives to attract private investors and other development partners and foster the rapid deployment of renewable energy in a country.

Project Number: 46268-002
Project Name: Clean Energy Finance Investment Program (Tranche 1)
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Having specific performance indicators dedicated to improving FI’s operational and financial management helps ADB foster its development objectives, while improving FI’s institutional capacity. Specifically, the performance indicators on safeguards compliance help ADB improve FI’s ESMS, thereby, mainstreaming ADB’s environmental and social objectives in infrastructure projects that FIs implemented.

Project Number: 46268-002
Project Name: Clean Energy Finance Investment Program (Tranche 1)
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Another lesson is that strong partnership and greater collaboration among FIs and stakeholders support the strengthening of financial supervision and risk management monitoring. Due diligence on the FI’s institutional capacity prior to loan approval, led to develop a complementary TA, which in turn supported in improving FI’s operational and financial management. ADB’s additional financing served as leverage to pursue recommendations from the TA, aimed to improve the FI’s financial and operational performance.

Project Number: 46268-002
Project Name: Clean Energy Finance Investment Program (Tranche 1)
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Particularly for loans, in-depth review on a borrower’s credit performance and the sector context, as part of the due diligence assessment, is vital for recognizing potential financial risks. Analytical measurements on financing risks (e.g., adequacy of capital ratio, contingent liabilities), risk allocation options, and risk management monitoring, for example, are key factors that enhance credit appraisal and help develop a well-structured financing scheme and related covenants.

Project Number: 46268-002
Project Name: Clean Energy Finance Investment Program (Tranche 1)
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Gaining the support of key stakeholders, particularly the private sector, is vital to the success of reform measures to revitalize the traditional arts and crafts sector.

Project Number: 42151-013
Project Name: Khadi Reform and Development Program
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A lesser set of tranche conditions, achievable in the short and medium term, could be a more efficient approach in reforming nonfarm production sectors that are highly volatile and dependent on consumer choices.

Project Number: 42151-013
Project Name: Khadi Reform and Development Program
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A focused design, with few policy conditions, strengthens the effectiveness of policy-based reform programs.

Project Number: 42151-013
Project Name: Khadi Reform and Development Program
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