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Slow approval processes and fund transfers due to delays in liquidation led to delayed delivery of annual work plans. As TA activities are season-specific, effective implementation requires advance planning and timely provision of resources, including finance, materials, and personnel.

Project Number: 39542-022
Project Name: Implementing the Greater Mekong Subregion Core Agriculture Support Program (Phase 2)
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Although the overall performance of the consultants and ADB staff was satisfactory considering all the work that was accomplished, monitoring of consultants by ADB staff, with support from WGA focal points and coordinators in each GMS country, can be improved further by allocating more time by ADB staff and WGA focal points.

Project Number: 39542-022
Project Name: Implementing the Greater Mekong Subregion Core Agriculture Support Program (Phase 2)
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Building on lessons learned from this TA, and in response to strong requests from WGA and GMS Ministers of Agriculture, a follow-up TA (ADB TA 9916) entitled “GMS Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security Program” was prepared to cover six priority themes: (i) promoting green, inclusive, and gender-responsive agri-food value chains; (ii) facilitating climate-smart agribusiness financing; (iii) enhancing food safety and quality standards, certification, and traceability; (iv) improving cross-border animal health and value chains; (v) managing water and soil for enhanced food security in a ch

Project Number: 39542-022
Project Name: Implementing the Greater Mekong Subregion Core Agriculture Support Program (Phase 2)
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Engage national contractors who have some staff experience in safeguard issues especially for category A or B projects and encourage construction supervision staff to oversee that safeguard issues are well handled without lapses. According to the PCR (para. 9) national contractors lacked experience in environment management and engaged national environment consulting firm to prepare site specific EMPs. The lapses that occurred in the initial pre-construction stage were addressed with ADB’s support and advice (para. 25).

Project Number: 41682-013
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion Highway Expansion Project
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Incorporation of strong safety measures in highway improvement projects optimizes their socioeconomic benefits.

Project Number: 41682-013
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion Highway Expansion Project
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Right-sizing of contract packages and provision of adequate time for construction favor the completion of civil works within the estimated periods.

Project Number: 41682-013
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion Highway Expansion Project
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Appointing a resident engineer from the EA to act as project engineer could be a more suitable arrangement in cases where the EA has adequate institutional and human resource capacities.

Project Number: 41682-013
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion Highway Expansion Project
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Technical assistance (TA) resources. Under the program, the government and regulators adopted legal and policy measures and introduced new products, many of which were relatively new, complicated concepts that required extensive coordination and consultation to build understanding and acceptance by stakeholders. Through resourceful TA support, the program's policy actions were all successfully complied with, and most post-program partnership follow-up actions were also implemented.

Project Number: 41325-013
Project Name: Capital Market Development Program
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Long-term perspective. The master plan - with a medium-term vision and strategies for capital market development - provided the government and regulators with a set of long-term objectives to guide and shape policy design and implementation.

Project Number: 41325-013
Project Name: Capital Market Development Program
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Strong coordination. The CMDWC (Capital Market Development Working Committee) and its sub-committee provided a platform for strong coordination among regulators and with market institutions. The Capital Market Development Master Plan was drafted by the sub-committee and endorsed by the committee through a highly consultative process, which greatly helped in fostering a sense of ownership.

Project Number: 41325-013
Project Name: Capital Market Development Program
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The adequacy and appropriateness of project design have to be tailored to the project’s ultimate objectives and complexities. The PCR provided weak justification of the relevance of the extension and the insufficiency of indicators.

Project Number: 39662-012, 39662-022
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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Each new outbreak of disease confronts projects such as this one, as well as the implementing partners and global community, with a fresh challenge, because its early spread outpaces the gathering of scientific evidence needed to formulate containment policies. Each successive outbreak is followed by an initial opaque period characterized by a frustrating lack of scientific evidence on which to base policies and technical guidance.

Project Number: 39662-012
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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The rapid launch and accelerated implementation of the project made necessary by the threat that avian influenza would become a pandemic made it difficult to define verifiable indicators for a number of the outputs under the regional capacity building and regional coordination components. A mid-term review of the project would have facilitated a review and updating of the design and monitoring framework.

Project Number: 39662-012
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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The project supported the One Health concept, which emphasizes the links between animal health and human health and emerging animal and human diseases. One Health provided a platform for unprecedented integration of animal, human and ecosystem health issues to fight the threat of avian influenza. The systematic collaboration of technical agencies across disciplines, such as FAO (veterinarians) and WHO (medical doctors) and civil society organizations (community health workers) supported by the project has promoted this concept since the beginning of the project.

Project Number: 39662-012
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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ADB's high-level steering committee demonstrated ADB's institutional support, which enhanced coordination between development partners. The committee, comprising the heads of all regional departments and the Strategy and Policy Department and chaired by the director general of RSDD, provided prompt policy guidance and expedited decisions and actions. It also ensured that the needs of the countries were ascertained and that they had adequate access to project resources.

Project Number: 39662-012
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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