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The program reaffirms the importance of ADB's long-term engagement in local governance reform. Its success can be attributed to policy actions in such areas as revenue generation, budget reform, and enhanced planning processes that were the emphasis of previous ADB programs. New policy reform areas such as Ease of Doing Business arose from dialogue with the government on new priorities.

Project Number: 52173-001, 52173-003
Project Name: Local Governance Reform Program
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Subsidiary regulations can have a significant impact. For example, in support of the Ease of Doing Business Act, the various joint memorandum circulars issued by government agencies had an immediate impact.

Project Number: 52173-001, 52173-003
Project Name: Local Governance Reform Program
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The use of IT has become part and parcel of fiscal decentralization efforts. Before the program, most agencies were hesitant to invest in IT infrastructure and resorted to grants from development partners. The program encouraged the government to appreciate the importance of sustaining the systems from the local governments' own budgets, greatly reducing the risk that the systems would not be sustained.

Project Number: 52173-001, 52173-003
Project Name: Local Governance Reform Program
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there is a growing need to identify more efficient and sustainable mechanisms for local capacity development. Face-to-face training is costly. The government must find out how existing technologies can be utilized to provide such training and to make the required investment in IT infrastructure.

Project Number: 52173-001, 52173-003
Project Name: Local Governance Reform Program
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Quick disbursing budget support is an effective instrument to respond to a crisis. Such an approach allows for strong alignment with government priorities and supports the government's ownership of the response measures. The eligibility criteria provide the necessary framework for due diligence. Timely upstream support can then be complemented with other forms of support–technical assistance, knowledge work, project investments–to reinforce the intended impact.

Project Number: 54138-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Active Response and Expenditure Support Program
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A program's design and monitoring framework (DMF) needs to be agile and flexible. A key aspect of a crisis is that it rapidly evolves and at the outset more is often unknown than known. The DMF therefore needs to be realistic and subject to change when new evidence emerges, or the context evolves. Hence, during the implementation and monitoring of the program, the DMF should be revisited and updated as needed.

Project Number: 54138-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Active Response and Expenditure Support Program
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Inavailability of data could hinder the achievement of a project's intended results. While gender data was available in major programs like the Emergency Subsidy Program, such data was unavailable for others. Of the six outputs in the gender monitoring matrix, two were not achieved as the following data were unavailable: (i) the number of micro, small, and medium enterprise beneficiaries under the small business wage subsidy program and those registered to women; and (ii) thenumber of micro, small, and medium enterprises that benefited from tax relief and those registered to women

Project Number: 54138-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Active Response and Expenditure Support Program
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Political will, continuous engagement, and high-level government support are crucial to the successful implementation of capital market reform programs.

Project Number: 48427-001, 48427-002
Project Name: Encouraging Investment Through Capital Market Reforms Program
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A holistic and thorough diagnostic enables the preparation of a comprehensive but highly implementable capital market development plan.

Project Number: 48427-001, 48427-002
Project Name: Encouraging Investment Through Capital Market Reforms Program
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Close collaboration within ADB and among development partners can result in greater capital market efficiencies.

Project Number: 48427-001, 48427-002
Project Name: Encouraging Investment Through Capital Market Reforms Program
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Sequencing of reforms and an extended gestation period are crucial to capital market development.

Project Number: 48427-001, 48427-002
Project Name: Encouraging Investment Through Capital Market Reforms Program
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Conductingan in-depth context and institutional analysis up front is important to the design and allocation of project resources .

Project Number: 33276-013
Project Name: Integrated Coastal Resources Management Project
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Sustainable resource management requires actions beyond developing a regulatory framework; adequate institutional capacity, coordination among different agencies and levels of government, sufficient resources to generate information on the status of coastal resources and effectively enforce regulations and plans, and the involvement of local stakeholders are also required.

Project Number: 33276-013
Project Name: Integrated Coastal Resources Management Project
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Valid control groups should also be identified to the extent possible to measure benefits attributable to the project.

Project Number: 33276-013
Project Name: Integrated Coastal Resources Management Project
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It is important to have a clear results chain logic at design in order to extract valuable lessons from the project.

Project Number: 33276-013
Project Name: Integrated Coastal Resources Management Project
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