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Lesson
Inclusive public consultations and close relationships among stakeholders are crucial to determine the most appropriate design and ensure the smooth implementation especially of project components introduced for the first in the country or project sites. The project design underwent various scope changes, some of which were in response to requests from the Kulhudhuffushi City Council (KCC). The scope changes and additional works delayed project implementation.

Project Number: 36111-013
Project Name: Kulhudhuffushi Harbor Expansion Project
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Institutional strengthening and capacity development need to continue throughout the project. Capacity constraints continue to affect Maldives’ maritime development and management, including projects financed by development partners. The technical associated linked to this project provided significant recommendations based on in-depth analysis and developed toolkits and guidance for improving harbor management and operation. The related government agencies and Kulhudhuffushi City Council (KCC) should review the recommendations carefully and use the outputs.

Project Number: 36111-013
Project Name: Kulhudhuffushi Harbor Expansion Project
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Using third parties to monitor implementation, especially in situations where mobility and ADB missions are constrained, helps ensure the attainment of intended results. The government partnered with the Red Crescent, private sector, and civil society organizations to vaccinate all residents of Maldives, including foreign workers with no official work permits.

Project Number: 54189-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Active Response and Expenditure Support Program
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Data access and documentation issues, which can affect emergency response operations, need to be identified and addressed right at the onset of the crisis situation. Early in program implementation, the government recognized the importance of internet connectivity and the use of web-based applications. There was no established online system to receive and process emergency assistance applications. The application forms were initially submitted by beneficiaries through email, which took more than 5 weeks to process.

Project Number: 54189-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Active Response and Expenditure Support Program
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The program's participatory approach was effective in engaging multiple stakeholders, enhancing donor coordination, and delivering the intended results. Emergency programs are less amenable to inter-donor coordination compared to programs implemented under normal conditions. However, based on a participatory approach, the CARES program made it possible to involve different parties: ministries, international nongovernment organizations, the private sector and civil society organizations. The approach proved to be effective, as the results were satisfactory.

Project Number: 54189-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Active Response and Expenditure Support Program
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Flexibility in adjusting timelines and targets to respond to new and unforeseen factors enhances impact. Difficulties in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic affected project implementation timelines. The pandemic was unprecedented in scale and unpredictable in terms of the percentage of the workforce testing positive; the mobility restrictions that needed to be imposed to control its spread; and its impact on availability of supplies, materials and expertise needed to implement the project.

Project Number: 54189-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Active Response and Expenditure Support Program
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Development of measurable Gender performance Indicators and targets, with clearly defined Indicators and data sources, is important in integrating Gender in all programs being implemented by the government . It is also important to develop and implement Gender action plans and use structured data collection tools that can easily extract the required data in a timely manner.

Project Number: 54189-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Active Response and Expenditure Support Program
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Better coordination or shared reporting and reliance on government’s own systems would ease the burden of monitoring and reporting the implementation of crisis response programs. Developing an effective reporting and monitoring system during a pandemic is difficult because of competing demands on staff time. This is accentuated when other development partners providing complementary support similarly impose reporting requirements.

Project Number: 54358-001
Project Name: Health Expenditure and Livelihoods Support Program
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Changing internal guidance and expectations added significant pressure in designing ADB’s COVID-19 response programs and this has to be managed more effectively in future similar circumstances. ADB was still refining its COVID-19 pandemic response option (CPRO) policy and guidelines when this program was prepared. Managing the changing internal guidelines and expectations added significant pressure.

Project Number: 54358-001
Project Name: Health Expenditure and Livelihoods Support Program
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Widespread assistance from development partners (DPs) in times of crisis could lead to fiscal expansion and unsustainable expenditures that require subsequent downward adjustments. The inflow of DP assistance to support the Republic of Marshall Islands’ (RMI) COVID-19 response plan has masked its structural fiscal deficit and led to expenditures that were unsustainable and needed to be adjusted afterwards. With the pandemic winding down, it has become most important for the country to heed the EconMAP’s recommendation for it take steps to address this fiscal deficit.

Project Number: 54358-001
Project Name: Health Expenditure and Livelihoods Support Program
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Targeted assistance will help ensure that crisis response programs reach those who need them most. Targeted assistance to women and girls, including in safeguarding their health and safety and prioritizing their coverage in socioeconomic assistance, helped support the well-being of these vulnerable groups. Harmonizing efforts to distribute WASH and dignity kits with those undertaken by a civil society group eliminated the risk of duplication and inefficiencies thus maximizing available assistance from various sources.

Project Number: 54358-001
Project Name: Health Expenditure and Livelihoods Support Program
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Properly designed TA DMFs enables the outcomes and outputs to be clearly attributed to the TA project initiatives. Generalized achievements, or achievements that could have resulted from initiatives or projects being implemented by other organizations concurrently, should be avoided. It is important to define baselines for indicators and factor in expected growth/development when defining indicator targets.

Project Number: 46502-001
Project Name: Trade and Transport Facilitation in the Pacific
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It is agreed that cofinancing partners ought to be updated regularly on key milestones and developments of the TA project, but this does not constitute a lesson.

Project Number: 46502-001
Project Name: Trade and Transport Facilitation in the Pacific
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A robust research and consultation conducted during the project planning and design stage ensure that the outcomes, outputs, and TA project activities being proposed are not already being conducted by other donors or even by ADB. Evaluation of initiatives developed for roll-out in other regions where they have proven success supports them being adopted into the new region considering its own characteristics.

Project Number: 46502-001
Project Name: Trade and Transport Facilitation in the Pacific
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Agreed. Strong field office support helps to facilitate smooth and efficient project implementation and delivery.

Project Number: 46502-001
Project Name: Trade and Transport Facilitation in the Pacific
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