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Lesson
The program proved to be a timely and effective means of channeling support to the government. Designed with coordinated support from various development partners,the government-led program, was coherent and relevant and delivered most of its intended outputs and outcomes. Several performance Indicators had specific Gender targets, which supported the government’s efforts to deliver on its commitment to women’s empowerment during a period when women were disproportionately affected by the impacts of the pandemic.

Project Number: 54188-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Active Response and Expenditure Support Program
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Well-designed road facilities and the systematic monitoring and collection of the traffic accident and volume data are critical for transport policy and for safe and sustainable transport over the long term. Road investments alone cannot ensure that sustainability objectives are achieved; complementary measures are needed to offset the adverse impacts of infrastructure provision, but to support this, traffic accident and count data need to be accurately collected and monitored.

Project Number: 41121-023, 41121-033, 41121-043, 41121-053, 45150-001
Project Name: CAREC Transport Corridor 1 (Zhambyl Oblast Section) [Western Europe–Western People’s Republic of China International Transit Corridor] Investment Program and Taraz Bypass Project (Kazakhstan)
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Innovative technologies need to be carefully assessed and monitored to determine their efficacy and sustainability. As new technologies are made available through various projects, close monitoring of their application and performance and as well as best practices should be incorporated so they can contribute to the success of the program and projects. Accumulation of this knowledge and its proper dissemination within ADB will ensure that it can be applied to other projects in different locations.

Project Number: 41121-023, 41121-033, 41121-043, 41121-053, 45150-001
Project Name: CAREC Transport Corridor 1 (Zhambyl Oblast Section) [Western Europe–Western People’s Republic of China International Transit Corridor] Investment Program and Taraz Bypass Project (Kazakhstan)
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Lesson
The MFF is a useful modality for providing the substantial financing required for infrastructure through successive tranches, but frequent policy dialogue between ADB and the executing agency would support the strategic long-term requirements of the sector. Implementation of the program demonstrated the flexibility and effectiveness of the MFF modality, for example when an additional tranche was approved to cover a section of the corridor that was originally not envisioned for ADB finance.

Project Number: 41121-023, 41121-033, 41121-043, 41121-053, 45150-001
Project Name: CAREC Transport Corridor 1 (Zhambyl Oblast Section) [Western Europe–Western People’s Republic of China International Transit Corridor] Investment Program and Taraz Bypass Project (Kazakhstan)
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Lesson
Economic and financial analyses are critical in establishing the viability of a project at the preparation and completion stages.

Project Number: 43441-013
Project Name: North–South Railway Project
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Lesson
The absence of a thorough demand analysis for transport of freight within and through Turkmenistan can be a risk factor on the economic viability and sustainability of a project, as was the case in this project.

Project Number: 43441-013
Project Name: North–South Railway Project
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ADB needs to develop better techniques for forecasting traffic because the use of country-wide aggregates to forecast traffic on specific roads often leads to gross over-estimation.

Project Number: 41121-023, 41121-033, 41121-043, 41121-053
Project Name: MFF-CAREC Corridor 1 (Zhambyl Oblast Section) Investment Program
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Target dates for performance indicators should be sufficiently set long after the likely date of disbursement or policy action. This is to identify a plausible causal relationship between investments and actions taken by the program and a change in the performance indicators. This was not the case in the performance indicators under output 1.

Project Number: 49083-001
Project Name: Countercyclical Support
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Project-level lesson: Assistance provided in response to a crisis should only include essential conditions for disbursement. ADB’s Project Administration Instructions stated that the use of conditions for withdrawal should be limited to the extent possible. In this program, four disparate conditions were included as conditions for disbursement without discussion or justification in the RRP.

Project Number: 49083-001
Project Name: Countercyclical Support
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Supportive national regulations and legislation are required to expedite the preparation and implementation of projects funded by international financing institutions (IFIs) like ADB.

Project Number: 43441-013
Project Name: North–South Railway Project
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SSelecting a sector of strength and having strong government backing and ownership enhances the value addition of Asian Development Bank− (ADB) financed projects.

Project Number: 43441-013
Project Name: North–South Railway Project
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Loan covenants must be in place to ensure the setting up of a project performance management system (PPMS) and the submission of project periodic reports (PPRs).

Project Number: 45150-003
Project Name: CAREC Corridor 1 (Taraz Bypass) Project
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Updating road designs and safeguard documents completed long before project startup is essential.

Project Number: 45150-002
Project Name: CAREC Corridor 1 (Taraz Bypass) Project
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Procedural issues in loan effectiveness and procurement, which repeatedly cause startup delays in externally funded projects in Kazakhstan, need to be resolved.

Project Number: 45150-001
Project Name: CAREC Corridor 1 (Taraz Bypass) Project
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Lesson
In addition to these identified lessons, this validation finds two additional lessons to improve project sustainability: undertake a more detailed financial evaluation of road maintenance funding to determine if financial resources are sufficient—with and without the tolling option, and

Project Number: 41121-043
Project Name: CAREC Transport Corridor I (Zhambyl Oblast Section) [Western Europe–Western People's Republic of China International Transit Corridor] Investment Program (Tranche 3)
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