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For reform actions meant to assist or to protect vulnerable groups, a deeper analysis on the program design needs to be undertaken, rather than focusing on maintaining or enlarging certain budgetary allocations.

Project Number: 43152-012
Project Name: Economic Support Program
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Future programs should exercise closer scrutiny to ensure that outcome indicators are available and accessible.

Project Number: 43152-012
Project Name: Economic Support Program
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Reforming large state-owned enterprises and complex regulatory reform. The impact of political sensitivities need to be factored into reform programs for major SOEs, particularly public utilities. Moreover, there may not be much legitimate appetite for foreign investment into distressed state-owned enterprises.

Project Number: 46385-001
Project Name: Strengthening Public Financial Management Program
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A single, government-led policy matrix can enhance coordination and collaboration amongst development partners. The Joint Policy Reform Matrix has evolved into a highly consultative process around which development partners coordinate their budget support and technical assistance for reform. This process has helped the partners speak with one voice to the government and has created a situation in which line ministries actively compete to have reforms listed in the Joint Policy Reform Matrix.

Project Number: 46385-001
Project Name: Strengthening Public Financial Management Program
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Limited but meaningful policy actions. In a single-tranche operation, those reforms selected for development-partner support should be few in number but large in potential impact. Technical assistance support should be available at program commencement. They should be clearly defined, widely owned, and have time-bound milestones that trigger financial support, either by ADB or by other partners supporting the government-led reform effort.

Project Number: 46385-001
Project Name: Strengthening Public Financial Management Program
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Single-tranche program. A single-tranche program operation can encourage up-front delivery of important reforms, particularly if launched as part of a programmatic, multiyear, policy reform effort where ongoing reforms are supported by several partners. This ensures reform sustainability.

Project Number: 46385-001
Project Name: Strengthening Public Financial Management Program
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The project encountered considerable delays and significant cost escalations in the design and tendering of the remote water transport infrastructure restoration component as a consequence of the switch from restoring existing structures to building new structures and introducing equitable distribution of project structures among maritime provinces. Future projects should examine the relevance, design, and cost implications and determine the project scope and design resource needs, avoiding the need for scope changes.

Project Number: 34121-013
Project Name: Community Water Transport Project
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While the issue of delays to project mobilization were recognized in the lessons learned at appraisal, the project failed to ensure such delays did not occur. Future projects need to plan for timely advance procurement of consultants and ensure advance commitment to institutional and financing arrangements prior to loan approval. Where trust funds are part of project design, institutional and operating rules need to be agreed and trust deeds formulated and agreed, if not formally signed prior to loan approval. Advance appointment of fund managers should be considered.

Project Number: 34121-013
Project Name: Community Water Transport Project
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The project demonstrated that subsidized community water transport services can be viable delivery mechanism that can provide improved access for marginalized and remote maritime and river-based communities so they can access health, education, and other government services.

Project Number: 34121-013
Project Name: Community Water Transport Project
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Each new outbreak of disease confronts projects such as this one, as well as the implementing partners and global community, with a fresh challenge, because its early spread outpaces the gathering of scientific evidence needed to formulate containment policies. Each successive outbreak is followed by an initial opaque period characterized by a frustrating lack of scientific evidence on which to base policies and technical guidance.

Project Number: 39662-012
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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The rapid launch and accelerated implementation of the project made necessary by the threat that avian influenza would become a pandemic made it difficult to define verifiable indicators for a number of the outputs under the regional capacity building and regional coordination components. A mid-term review of the project would have facilitated a review and updating of the design and monitoring framework.

Project Number: 39662-012
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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The project supported the One Health concept, which emphasizes the links between animal health and human health and emerging animal and human diseases. One Health provided a platform for unprecedented integration of animal, human and ecosystem health issues to fight the threat of avian influenza. The systematic collaboration of technical agencies across disciplines, such as FAO (veterinarians) and WHO (medical doctors) and civil society organizations (community health workers) supported by the project has promoted this concept since the beginning of the project.

Project Number: 39662-012
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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ADB's high-level steering committee demonstrated ADB's institutional support, which enhanced coordination between development partners. The committee, comprising the heads of all regional departments and the Strategy and Policy Department and chaired by the director general of RSDD, provided prompt policy guidance and expedited decisions and actions. It also ensured that the needs of the countries were ascertained and that they had adequate access to project resources.

Project Number: 39662-012
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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ADB was able to use its convening power effectively because it had the necessary in-house technical expertise. Public health experts on ADB's staff with knowledge of emerging infectious diseases were involved in designing and implementing the project. This in-house expertise made the dialogue with the technical and regional agencies to strengthen regional collaboration within and across the animal health and human health sectors possible.

Project Number: 39662-012
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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