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Monitoring and analysis of the MSE (micro and small enterprise) sector would benefit from estimates of the credit gap to confirm additionality of ADB FILs (financial intermediation loans). This could also help ensure that private sector funds are not displaced given the features of sovereign loans. How FILs catalyze the entry of new funds into the market needs to be better documented, and FILs' ability to move participants to more market-based finance needs to be improved.

Project Number: 42007-013
Project Name: Second Small and Microfinance Development Project
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Promoting the success of MSE (micro and small enterprise) operations and helping PCBs (participating commercial banks) fulfill their greater developmental functions would address existing constraints. Access to finance is just one constraint hindering the development of MSEs. In a 2003 survey of SMEs (in Uzbekistan, the International Finance Corporation identified some of the negative factors hindering the operation of enterprises. These include administrative procedures, currency conversion, access to finance, taxation, and import and export restrictions.

Project Number: 42007-013
Project Name: Second Small and Microfinance Development Project
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Policy reforms are difficult to implement when (a) packaged with an investment project; (b) overambitious in terms of scope and time frame; and (c) developed without due consideration of general government policies, people's capacity, and the historic context.

Project Number: 30500-013
Project Name: Amu Zang Irrigation Rehabilitation Project
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The price of large contracts, particularly those involving heavy equipment expressed in different foreign currencies, may cause escalation of US dollar (loan currency) equivalent price and result in significant cost overruns.

Project Number: 30500-013
Project Name: Amu Zang Irrigation Rehabilitation Project
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Preparation and approval of a national feasibility study after loan approval substantially delays loan effectiveness.

Project Number: 30500-013
Project Name: Amu Zang Irrigation Rehabilitation Project
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Duplication of the loan and the related TA activities creates difficulties during implementation and should be avoided.

Project Number: 30500-013
Project Name: Amu Zang Irrigation Rehabilitation Project
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The provision of consultant input and skill mix, and TA duration should match the scope of work.

Project Number: 30500-013
Project Name: Amu Zang Irrigation Rehabilitation Project
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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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A needs assessment should be conducted to ensure that project components are realistically achievable given the proposed time frame and other project resources.

Project Number: 36509-013
Project Name: Woman and Child Health Development Project
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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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ADB was able to use its convening power effectively because it had the necessary in-house technical expertise. Public health experts on ADB's staff with knowledge of emerging infectious diseases were involved in designing and implementing the project. This in-house expertise made the dialogue with the technical and regional agencies to strengthen regional collaboration within and across the animal health and human health sectors possible.

Project Number: 39662-012
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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Lesson
No new lessons.

Project Number: 38074-013
Project Name: Kashkadarya and Navoi Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project
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