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ADB needs to carefully consider in the design of projects the legislated requirements of its member countries in procurement and contract management.

Project Number: 45067-005
Project Name: CAREC Corridor 6 (Marakand–Karshi) Railway Electrification Project
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The financial management of Uzbekistan’s key rail sector agency needs to be continually strengthened to better comply with international standards.

Project Number: 45067-005
Project Name: CAREC Corridor 6 (Marakand–Karshi) Railway Electrification Project
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The project performance management system, which is necessary to provide the data for the identification and quantification of economic benefits, should be established at the project preparation stage with baseline data collected and maintained through implementation to project completion.

Project Number: 42107-023, 42107-033, 42107-043
Project Name: Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 2 Road Investment Program
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For investments of a regional character, it is important to assign economic benefits to the appropriate country, if not, economic viability of the investment may be grossly misrepresented.

Project Number: 42107-023, 42107-033, 42107-043
Project Name: Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 2 Road Investment Program
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A country specific EIRR and economic net present value would have to follow to put the investment in proper perspective

Project Number: 42107-023, 42107-033, 42107-043
Project Name: Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 2 Road Investment Program
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To confirm the economic viability of the regional plan and then identify which countries benefit or do not benefit, an economic internal rate of return (EIRR) for the region should be prepared in the first instance of the regional investment.

Project Number: 42107-023, 42107-033, 42107-043
Project Name: Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 2 Road Investment Program
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Providing women with livelihood skills training, aside from jobs during can construction, can maximize the gender benefits of ADB-assisted road projects.

Project Number: 42107-013
Project Name: Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 2 Road Investment Program
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Detailed designs adequate for procurement have to be completed prior to the tender of civil works contracts.

Project Number: 42107-013
Project Name: Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 2 Road Investment Program
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Project and contract durations need to consider all the factors that could affect implementation.

Project Number: 42107-013
Project Name: Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 2 Road Investment Program
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Developing integrated road transport corridors will optimize regional economic impacts.

Project Number: 42107-013
Project Name: Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 2 Road Investment Program
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A number of the indicators in the DMF are framed inadequately. For example, the indicator related to road beneficiaries claimed that 4.5 million people would benefit. It was not clear how this was measured, as the area of the project itself is basically uninhabited. While it was also clear that some indicators were dropped during project implementation, such as the number of women expected to benefit from the project (para. 16).

Project Number: 42107-033
Project Name: Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 2 Road Investment Program (Tranche 2)
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The original forecasts for traffic intensity on the road section may have not warranted a four-lane road improvement (para. 13). While the PCR listed an economic downturn in Uzbekistan for this, the validation notes that the methodology followed for the estimation of traffic intensity at initial appraisal, contract completion, and reappraisal was poorly structured. Estimating traffic based upon extremely short surveys is known to introduce significant potential inaccuracies. This appears to be a common issue, with insufficient emphasis being placed upon traffic surveys.

Project Number: 42107-033
Project Name: Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 2 Road Investment Program (Tranche 2)
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The implementation of the project was initially delayed by the bankruptcy of the originally selected contractor’s parent firm. This bankruptcy occurred prior to mobilization and as such no additional costs were incurred. However, the additional procurement process led to significant delays and additional costs for both ADB and the borrower. It would be useful to learn more about the contractors and to review procedures for assessing their financial sustainability.

Project Number: 42107-033
Project Name: Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 2 Road Investment Program (Tranche 2)
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There were issues associated with working with the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations, Investments and Trade (MFERIT) during the project. MFERIT is responsible for registering all construction contracts in the country, but it appears that there are slow processes within MFERIT, which delayed the process and led to significant detrimental effect on the progress of the contractor mobilization. ADB can work with MFERIT to improve processes generally, or at least identify a fast-track approach for externally funded projects.

Project Number: 42107-033
Project Name: Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 2 Road Investment Program (Tranche 2)
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An integrated road transport system optimizes the benefits from and impacts of regional economic cooperation

Project Number: 42107-033
Project Name: CAREC Corridor 2 Road Investment Program (Tranche 2)
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