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Close consultation with stakeholders during project design and implementation is especially needed to address the difficulties commonly arising from finding appropriate sites for solid waste and medical waste management facilities in urban projects. Due to lack of land and higher costs of construction than estimated at appraisal, it was not possible to construct the integrated waste treatment facilities, slaughterhouses, and medical waste management facilities planned under this program. These components were eventually dropped.

Project Number: 39305-013
Project Name: Urban Public and Environmental Health Sector Development Program 
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Overall project success depends to a large extent on the successful implementation of risk mitigation measures carefully identified at appraisal. Weak institutional arrangements and lack of ownership saddled the implementation of this program. A lack of capacity and coordination among different agencies compounded the difficulties. The difficulties could have been minimized or avoided through the timely implementation of risk mitigation measures drawn at appraisal. The measures should be based on a thorough assessment of all potential risks throughout the project period.

Project Number: 39305-013
Project Name: Urban Public and Environmental Health Sector Development Program 
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The participation of relevant agencies, effective communication of their role, and broader consultations on possible implementation arrangements at project design ensure effective and efficient inter-agency coordination and project implementation. Under the project, instead of taking full responsibility as the IPIU, UPJN only deployed some staff to the IPIUs and was charging administrative fees for their role including remuneration of their staff that ADB had refused.

Project Number: 39405-013
Project Name: Dhaka Water Supply Sector
Development Program
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Improved readiness assessment is essential to avoiding implementation issues arising from inexperienced project technical and administrative staff and project managers. Under the project, the lack of experienced staff required capacity building during implementation that divided staff’s focus and resulted in problems in document processing until the project staff were able to fully understand work procedures and requirements.

Project Number: 39405-013
Project Name: Dhaka Water Supply Sector
Development Program
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Contract effectivity should be independent of contractor submission of performance and advance payment guarantees.

Project Number: 39405-013
Project Name: Dhaka Water Supply Sector Development Program
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Timely midterm review missions (MTRs) enable timely adjustments in targets and implementation plans.

Project Number: 39405-013
Project Name: Dhaka Water Supply Sector Development Program
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Making innovations and newly introduced technologies work for a long-time will require sustained human resource training and continuous adaptation.

Project Number: 39405-013
Project Name: Dhaka Water Supply Sector Development Program
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Including foreseeable variables in contingency allocations will reduce the risk of cost overruns.

Project Number: 39405-013
Project Name: Dhaka Water Supply Sector Development Program
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Given adequate education and community-based mechanisms, legal water connections are not difficult to promote in urban poor communities.

Project Number: 39405-013
Project Name: Dhaka Water Supply Sector Development Program
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Advance procurement actions and proactive measures to facilitate government approvals are essential to mitigating the risk of delays

Project Number: 39405-013
Project Name: Dhaka Water Supply Sector Development Program
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Participatory approaches to develop community support for projects will also help avoid unintended adverse impacts.

Project Number: 39405-013
Project Name: Dhaka Water Supply Sector Development Program
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The role of nongovernment organizations (NGO) as advocates and community facilitators can be strengthened further through better performance assessments.

Project Number: 39405-013
Project Name: Dhaka Water Supply Sector Development Program
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A holistic and in-depth assessment of project context and adequate stakeholder consultations are important to ensure project readiness in identification of candidate subprojects and to avoid unnecessary changes leading to delays. For example, change of the location for the solid waste management subproject due to unavailability of land in the originally proposed location.

Project Number: 39298-013
Project Name: City Region Development Project
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For sector loan projects where several past related interventions and investments were provided, building on progress achieved from them and duly taking account of relevant recommendations can optimize project design and fasttrack project implementation towards efficient fund utilization and satisfactory delivery of project outputs. In the case of this project, its design capitalized on the capacity of the implementing agencies strengthened through previous ADB projects and the flexibility of a sector loan to incentivize them to perform and compete for securing the investment funds.

Project Number: 39298-013
Project Name: City Region Development Project
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Giving equal importance to the institutional and capacity support and infrastructure investments under a sector loan strengthens commitment, ownership, and accountability of the executing agency. The implementation of infrastructure component of the project, coupled with timely technical support and capacity building, is pivotal to ensuring project readiness and implementation progress in a highly challenging context.

Project Number: 39298-013
Project Name: City Region Development Project
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