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The project gender action plan (GAP) needs to be achievable and directly related to the project activities.

Project Number: 42394-022
Project Name: Nuku'alofa Urban Development Sector Project
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ADB-financed projects in the Pacific should be ready to immediately make the necessary adjustments when undocumented underground installations are found during implementation.

Project Number: 42394-022
Project Name: Nuku'alofa Urban Development Sector Project
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Land acquisition and resettlement (LAR) in Tonga needs to be allotted relatively more time for implementation.

Project Number: 42394-022
Project Name: Nuku'alofa Urban Development Sector Project
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It is important to establish a standalone environmental safeguards unit (ESU) right at project inception to focus on and coordinate safeguards compliance activities in ADB-financed projects.

Project Number: 42394-022
Project Name: Nuku'alofa Urban Development Sector Project
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Safeguards compliance is best promoted through regular monitoring and audit

Project Number: 42394-022
Project Name: Nuku'alofa Urban Development Sector Project
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Joint engagements by development partners in policy dialogue, budget support, and the coordination and prioritization of technical assistance (TA) maximize donor assistance to developing countries.

Project Number: 52030-001
Project Name: Strengthening Macroeconomic Resilience Program
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Standalone policy-based programs/projects provide governments with enough flexibility to quickly respond to urgent development needs.

Project Number: 52030-001
Project Name: Strengthening Macroeconomic Resilience Program
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Adjustments in ADB policies and procedures are crucial to the timely provision of ADB assistance to member countries, particularly during crisis situations

Project Number: 52030-001
Project Name: Strengthening Macroeconomic Resilience Program
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For a sector such as ICT, with limited skills, expertise, and private sector involvement especially in a small country, project financing provides an opportunity for development banks, such as ADB, to leverage its development objectives. These include promoting private sector participation, improving public service delivery, and strengthening institutions. Infrastructure projects are only a means to achieve development outcomes and impacts. This is a principle that most infrastructure project designs could be based on.

Project Number: 38347-022
Project Name: Tonga–Fiji Submarine Cable Project
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Close coordination with other development banks, such as the World Bank, the government’s clear infrastructure priorities and plan, and its good relationship with a neighboring country is crucial to ensure project readiness, availability of funds, and timely implementation of the project.

Project Number: 38347-022
Project Name: Tonga–Fiji Submarine Cable Project
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It is agreed that cofinancing partners ought to be updated regularly on key milestones and developments of the TA project, but this does not constitute a lesson.

Project Number: 46502-001
Project Name: Trade and Transport Facilitation in the Pacific
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A robust research and consultation conducted during the project planning and design stage ensure that the outcomes, outputs, and TA project activities being proposed are not already being conducted by other donors or even by ADB. Evaluation of initiatives developed for roll-out in other regions where they have proven success supports them being adopted into the new region considering its own characteristics.

Project Number: 46502-001
Project Name: Trade and Transport Facilitation in the Pacific
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Agreed. Strong field office support helps to facilitate smooth and efficient project implementation and delivery.

Project Number: 46502-001
Project Name: Trade and Transport Facilitation in the Pacific
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A carefully developed TOR for consultants during the project planning and design stage ensure that the contract is set up in a most efficient way.

Project Number: 46502-001
Project Name: Trade and Transport Facilitation in the Pacific
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The lifting of regulatory standards, the development of a project pipeline and the development of strategic trade and transport facilitation implementation plans help to direct government focus for budget allocation. Donors and the private sector are motivated to invest in areas where strategic development has already commenced, and where strategic plans are in place that have a coordinated long-term focus, and which can clearly demonstrate positive project outcomes.

Project Number: 46502-001
Project Name: Trade and Transport Facilitation in the Pacific
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