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The project's use of leasing, a financing instrument not used in previous ADB FILs in Uzbekistan, was positive as it provided alternative financing depending on the needs of customers.

Project Number: 42007-018
Project Name: Small Business Finance Project
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Collaboration with development partners is essential to build consensus for reforms. Donor consensus and support for critical reforms, backed by a policy-based loan and plan to subsequently complement by project-level funding, contributed to the success of this program. Continued long-term engagement on reforms supported by investments is necessary for sustainability.

Project Number: 49006-003
Project Name: Electricity Transmission Sector Reforms Program
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The facility’s flexibility allowed the use of savings from one tranche to fund investments from another tranche. The installation and supply of ventilators within tranche 5 was canceled in the metro project as the increase in costs surpassed the initially allocated loan funds. Savings from tranche 1 from the cancellation of other subprojects were used to fund the investment in ventilators from the metro project.

Project Number: 42414-013, 42414-045
Project Name: Sustainable Urban Transport Investment Program - Tranche 5 and MFF
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Project readiness challenges could result in sequential delays of the different tranches in an MFF, leaving insufficient time for implementation within the MFF term and making MFF less relevant. Prior to the approval of each tranche, the initial design for each project was prepared to varying degrees.

Project Number: 44483-024, 44483-023, 44483-026, 44483-027
Project Name: Second Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 2 Road Investment Program
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Overconservative cost estimation during the implementation of the multitranche financing facility (MFF) tranche projects may reduce the funding availability for other investments and result in low utilization of the approved MFF amount. Tranche 2’s actual total cost was $64.97 million, 60% of the budgeted amount, and ADB’s loan disbursement was only 61% of the committed amount.

Project Number: 42414-033
Project Name: Sustainable Urban Transport Investment Program - Tranche 2
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