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The allowable size of civil works contracts should consider contractor technical and financial capacity, geographic proximity of the projects and ease of supervision by the implementing agency. While a smaller contract size encourages competition and hypothetically lower prices, this may discourage technically and financially capable contractors from participating. This may also result in poor quality of work that would require more frequent supervisory visits and rectification.

Project Number: 40559-013
Project Name: Second Urban Governance and Infrastructure Improvement (Sector) Project
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Consultant qualification criteria and recruitment procedures may need to be streamlined as appropriate to ensure timely and high-quality services.

Project Number: 31309-013
Project Name: Post-Literacy and Continuing Education Project
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Consistent dialogue and close communication and coordination among stakeholders enhance project implementation.

Project Number: 31309-013
Project Name: Post-Literacy and Continuing Education Project
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Complex project designs can breed implementation difficulties, create inefficiencies, and increase fiduciary risks.

Project Number: 31309-013
Project Name: Post-Literacy and Continuing Education Project
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Strong collaboration between ADB, financial intermediaries, and subproject sponsors can ensure compliance to ADB safeguard requirements in private sector financial intermediation loans (FILs).

Project Number: 40517-013, 40517-042
Project Name: Public-Private Infrastructure Development Facility
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It is important to develop adequate technical capacity to assess subprojects in new sectors prior to making an investment.

Project Number: 40517-013, 40517-042
Project Name: Public-Private Infrastructure Development Facility
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Mitigating the risks in introducing nontraditional, innovative loan programs requires a thorough and consistent monitoring and analysis of the market dynamics surrounding such programs.

Project Number: 40517-013, 40517-042
Project Name: Public-Private Infrastructure Development Facility
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Lack of project readiness in financial intermediation loans means that subloans cannot be disbursed early and as envisaged at appraisal.

Project Number: 40517-013, 40517-042
Project Name: Public-Private Infrastructure Development Facility
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Coherent, well defined, and measurable indicators are critically important to an accurate assessment of project performance and accomplishments.

Project Number: 40517-013, 40517-042
Project Name: Public-Private Infrastructure Development Facility
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Regular review missions and incorporation of stakeholder feedback foster the success of projects.

Project Number: 39408-013
Project Name: Skills Development Project
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Lack of project readiness can seriously delay implementation.

Project Number: 39408-013
Project Name: Skills Development Project
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A comprehensive and thorough assessment of the capacities of the executing agency (EA) and implementing agency (IA) is crucial to setting realistic targets.

Project Number: 39408-013
Project Name: Skills Development Project
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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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