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Lesson
A design and monitoring framework could become more useful and informative for assessment if it could include quantifiable indicators for capacity building when the requirement is identified during program appraisal.

Project Number: 37192-023, 37192-033, 37192-043, 37192-044
Project Name: Power Transmission Enhancement Investment Program (Tranche 4 and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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A thorough screening and assessment of project selection upfront is crucial to enhancing the effectiveness of MFF modality, especially its suitability and readiness for a specific type of investment. In a case where an MFF modality is designed to finance a typical stand-alone investment, the intended benefits and envisaged results of the financing instrument are less likely to be achieved.

Project Number: 41122-013, 41122-043
Project Name: Road Corridor Investment Program (Tranche 3 and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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In designing an multitranche financing facility program, it is important to formulate tranche-specific design and monitoring frameworks that are logical and have sound links of outcome and outputs in line with the SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely) principle. These indicators need to work in concert to reflect the appropriateness and continuum of the results chain leading up to the high-level development impacts that are most relevant to the scope and focus of that specific tranche.

Project Number: 42414-033
Project Name: Sustainable Urban Transport Investment Program (Tranche 2)
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Lesson
Weaknesses in the initial design and monitoring framework (DMF) led to difficulties in measuring project achievements. The initial DMF for the facility had to be revised. Some outcome targets were not updated even though there were changes in the associated investments under the different tranches. The DMF included output Indicators for activities not directly financed under the MFF.

Project Number: 42414-013, 42414-045
Project Name: Sustainable Urban Transport Investment Program - Tranche 5 and MFF
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Lesson
Project implementation often faces multiple risks. Identifying and implementing risk mitigation measures and providing adequate early-stage support are crucial in minimizing initial delays and addressing emerging project needs. Adequate due diligence at appraisal should emphasize strong assessment of borrower's and executing agency's capacity across institutional, financial, and operational aspects.

Project Number: 42051-023
Project Name: Energy Efficiency Program
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A project specific DMF is key to reliably assessing the implementation progress and overall performance of each tranche project. The DMF for this project contained indicators that pertained to investments under other tranches of the multitranche financing facility (MFF). This made monitoring and evaluation of project progress and performance difficult, with results that hid the real picture and so prevented corrective measures from being undertaken during implementation.

Project Number: 42414-023
Project Name: Sustainable Urban Transport Investment Program - Tranche 1
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Weaknesses in the design and monitoring framework (DMF) can lead to an inaccurate assessment of project achievements. The project DMF contained indicators that measured benefits that were not entirely attributable to the project, such as the number of tourist nights in Georgia rather than in the Batumi area. Some dimensions of the project’s outcome were omitted, such as the increased protection of coastal infrastructure assets. The reduction of storm-related damage should have been considered as part of project’s outcome performance indicators.

Project Number: 42414-044
Project Name: Sustainable Urban Transport Investment Program - Tranche 4
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