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Need for more frequent monitoring and coordination meetings with the executing agency by ADB in the early stages of project implementation to resolve issues before they worsen. Strict compliance with loan covenants pertaining to financial management systems, reporting, and project coordination meetings should have been the priority concern after loan effectiveness.

Project Number: 43141-023
Project Name: Civil Aviation Development Investment Program (Tranche 1)
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Approval of project financing should not be based on preliminary designs.

Project Number: 40037-013
Project Name: Lae Port Development Project
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A thorough assessment of impacts and monitoring of outcomes help ensure the effectiveness of resettlement plans.

Project Number: 40037-013
Project Name: Lae Port Development Project
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Careful selection of the executing agency (EA) improves a project’s success potential.

Project Number: 40037-013
Project Name: Lae Port Development Project
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The private sector can be a viable partner in health services delivery.

Project Number: 39033-022
Project Name: HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control in Rural Development Enclaves
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Multisector collaboration is most beneficial for HIV/AIDS prevention.

Project Number: 39033-022
Project Name: HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control in Rural Development Enclaves
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Context−specific behavior change programs are crucial to HIV/AIDS prevention.

Project Number: 39033-022
Project Name: HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control in Rural Development Enclaves
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No new lessons

Project Number: 34121-013
Project Name: Community Water Transport Project
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No new lessons

Project Number: 32124-013, 32124-023
Project Name: Road Maintenance and Upgrading (Sector) 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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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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Support to HIV/AIDs should have been considered relative to other health issues in the Pacific. At the time of project design it would have been interesting to know what the main causes of death in the Pacific were, and where AIDS stood in relation to these.

Project Number: 38599-022
Project Name: HIV/AIDS Prevention and Capacity Development in the Pacific
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Given that multiple streams of funding for HIV/AIDS were already available, it may have been more efficient for ADB to work in partnership with another donor who had more experience and technical expertise in HIV/AIDS.

Project Number: 38599-022
Project Name: HIV/AIDS Prevention and Capacity Development in the Pacific
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Expedite Withdrawal Application processing by reducing processing time and involving ADB in checking the claim before the Engineer issues the payment certificate. One way of overcoming this issue is to ensure that counterpart funding allocation into the project account needs to be made as conditions for ADB's disbursement.

Project Number: 32124-013, 32124-023
Project Name: Road Maintenance and Upgrading (Sector) Project
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