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A project focusing on microfinance could help remove obstacles to micro-insurance or other risk transfer schemes in the agricultural sector. The project did not create a market for micro-insurance as envisaged.

Project Number: 45389-001, 45389-002, 45389-003, 45389-004
Project Name: Building Climate Resilience in the Pyanj River Basin
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Timing and location are essential to the participation of women in gender-related and other project activities. Implementation of this project’s gender action plan (GAP) was challenged by the wide geographic dispersion of households, which created difficulties in gathering project participants for training. The gender awareness campaigns also coincided with the harvest season, which made it difficult for farmer-beneficiaries to take part.

Project Number: 45389-001, 45389-002, 45389-003, 45389-004
Project Name: Building Climate Resilience in the Pyanj River Basin
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Less stringent selection criteria, which enables the participation of more eligible financial institutions, could optimize the impact of microlending short-term, low-interest loans in unbanked but regularly earning agricultural communities. The selection of partner participating financial institutions (PFIs) for the microlending component of this project may have been too strict. This resulted in the participation of only 3 of the 6 large PFIs in Tajikistan, all of which are foreign-owned and likely to have been effective partners.

Project Number: 45389-001, 45389-002, 45389-003, 45389-004
Project Name: Building Climate Resilience in the Pyanj River Basin
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A thorough assessment of the financial management capacity of executing agencies (EAs) is required to mitigate the risk of financial issues disrupting project implementation or leading to non-compliance to loan covenants/grant agreements. The Agency for Land Reclamation and Irrigation (ALRI), the EA for 2 of this project’s 4 intended outputs, did not monitor the commercial bank that held the advance accounts for said outputs. When the bank became insolvent, part of the advance accounts was frozen, and was refunded only after government intervention albeit with significant delay.

Project Number: 45389-001, 45389-002, 45389-003, 45389-004
Project Name: Building Climate Resilience in the Pyanj River Basin
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It is important for green finance to be supported by robust product development.

Project Number: 45229-001
Project Name: Access to Green Finance Project: Project Completion Report
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Embedding critical microfinance institution (MFI) performance indicators in the project monitoring system promotes transparency and allows assessment of performance and corrective actions when needed.

Project Number: 45229-001
Project Name: Access to Green Finance Project: Project Completion Report
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Navigating the appropriate financing size and institutional requirements of the CPRO while developing its scope and short- to medium-term directions demanded strong collaboration and coordination among ADB departments.

Project Number: 54156-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Active Response and Expenditure Support Program
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Strong coordination and regular communication between the ADB and government counterpart teams are key to the speedy processing and successful implementation of crisis response programs like the CPRO.

Project Number: 54156-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Active Response and Expenditure Support Program
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The COVID-19 Pandemic Response Option (CPRO) is an effective crisis response measure with development results that may be enhanced through additional similar assistance from ADB and other donors.

Project Number: 54156-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Active Response and Expenditure Support Program
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The economic benefits of regional transport corridors cannot be maximized without common recognition by target user countries of the international status of the facilities and the upgrading of all connecting, feeder roads.

Project Number: 46543-002
Project Name: Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridors 3 and 5 Enhancement Project
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Sufficient training is needed for the success of the performance-based maintenance (PBM) of the project roads.

Project Number: 46543-002
Project Name: Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridors 3 and 5 Enhancement Project
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The transition to market-based economic systems may entail the privatization of state-owned enterprises.

Project Number: 47099-002, 47099-004
Project Name: Investment Climate Reforms Program (Subprograms 1 and 2)
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Making private sector development truly sustainable requires transforming governance and public institutions and administration in a manner suited to the development of market-based systems.

Project Number: 47099-002, 47099-004
Project Name: Investment Climate Reforms Program (Subprograms 1 and 2)
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Promoting private sector development and undertaking critical structural reforms that address the deficiencies and weaknesses of the system require a stable macroeconomic environment

Project Number: 47099-002, 47099-004
Project Name: Investment Climate Reforms Program (Subprograms 1 and 2)
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Target outputs need to be specific and measurable to enable effective monitoring and supervision during implementation and reliable performance evaluation at completion.

Project Number: 43150-022
Project Name: Regional Power Transmission Project
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