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No new lessons

Project Number: 35343-013
Project Name: Support the Implementation of the Public Administration Reform Master Program, Phase 1
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There were no apparent incentives for project management to properly assess project impacts, so the collection and use of baseline data and strengthening of overall monitoring of beneficiaries need a stronger institutional push.

Project Number: 31361-013
Project Name: Rural Enterprise Finance Project
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National M&E remains a challenge due to lack of capacity and minimal regional support to assist participating DMCs. While regional evaluations of some activities have taken place, they need to focus on impact or outcome indicators rather than on the process of implementation.

Project Number: 38599-022
Project Name: HIV/AIDS Prevention and Capacity Development in the Pacific
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Establishing a project steering committee is challenging where separate development partner committees already exist to oversee arrangements for Pacific countries.

Project Number: 38599-022
Project Name: HIV/AIDS Prevention and Capacity Development in the Pacific
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An executing agency's ability to implement project activities within set timeframes is diluted where there is limited PMU capacity, a lack of experience with ADB procedures, and inadequate executive oversight.

Project Number: 38599-022
Project Name: HIV/AIDS Prevention and Capacity Development in the Pacific
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Efforts to strengthen routine surveillance and laboratory capacity will achieve only limited success where health information systems and laboratory services are weak.

Project Number: 38599-022
Project Name: HIV/AIDS Prevention and Capacity Development in the Pacific
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Even if a project is aligned with regional strategies, designs need to incorporate sufficient national consultation and consider country absorptive and technical capacity and commitment.

Project Number: 38599-022
Project Name: HIV/AIDS Prevention and Capacity Development in the Pacific
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Monitoring and evaluation. Data were regularly collected, and efforts were made not to create a separate monitoring system but use existing information. However, project monitoring was incomplete and insufficiently used as a management tool to achieve results. Substantive project evaluation was very useful.

Project Number: 30285-013
Project Name: Rural Health Project
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Lengthy administrative processes. Implementation delays were largely caused by lengthy procurement and financial control procedures at all levels. While the project management unit (PMU) and provincial project management unit (PPMU) capacity was also an issue, the government's administrative procedures were time consuming. ADB administration was considered relatively efficient.

Project Number: 30285-013
Project Name: Rural Health Project
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Targeting. The project improved services for the poor and had a substantial focus on maternal care but provided less targeted support for ethnic minorities. Several of the interventions for ethnic minorities didn't materialize. The project evaluation study showed that the poor in general and ethnic minorities in particular benefited from the government support for commune health stations (CHSs) and health insurance, while ADB funding provided more general public support. More could have been achieved with better targeting for minorities, assuming MOH concurrence.

Project Number: 30285-013
Project Name: Rural Health Project
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Piloting reforms. While government ownership of project formulation was strong, proposed pilots were too ambitious given MOH constraints and the lack of detailed plans or technical support. On the other hand, the project flexibly responded to several policy changes and national developments by adjusting its scope, which counterparts appreciated. Demand-led programming improved project impact.

Project Number: 30285-013
Project Name: Rural Health Project
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Priorities for health sector development. One issue with health projects in Viet Nam is that the Ministry of Health (MOH) and the provinces typically give priority to upgrading facilities and staff. Provinces may be less focused on sector reforms and improving outcomes, perhaps as this is not seen as a role of projects, and the results are less understood and tangible. Provinces need to focus more on improving the quality of services and maintaining assets.

Project Number: 30285-013
Project Name: Rural Health Project
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The importance of existing institutional capacity for carrying out changes in the technical aspects of the project design. The risks associated with a change in scope should be fully considered to prevent project failure.

Project Number: 30535-013
Project Name: Financial Management Project
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It will take time to discern the impact of the overall stimulus package. Recent fiscal data from the United States have corrected initial assessments of the depth of the economic and financial crisis and, with it, the impact of the stimulus package implemented. Similar trends could be at play not just in Viet Nam, but in other Asian economies that implemented stimulus programs. In that light, perhaps, program evaluation will be more adequately served with an assessment 3-4 years after loan disbursement.

Project Number: 43315-013
Project Name: Countercyclical Support
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As it is the case with any policy-based lending, the impact and outcome of the VIE-CS loan was highly dependent on the quality of public financial management. Additional efforts in improving the efficiency and transparency of public financial management would allow even greater impact of similar fiscal stimulus programs.

Project Number: 43315-013
Project Name: Countercyclical Support
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