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Lesson
Achievable targets are those that are carefully set with full information of the existing conditions and sufficient human, technical, and financial resources to support achievement.

Project Number: 38560-022
Project Name: Second Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project
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Lesson
Continuous and close coordination, coupled with good working relationships between the ADB and executing agency (EA) project staff, are essential to the successful completion of projects.

Project Number: 38560-022
Project Name: Second Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project
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Safeguards documentation is crucial to the effective functioning of ADB’s accountability mechanism.

Project Number: 37269-013, 37269-023
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion: Rehabilitation of the Railway in Cambodia
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Appropriate contract packaging is an essential precondition for the smooth implementation of civil works.

Project Number: 37269-013, 37269-023
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion: Rehabilitation of the Railway in Cambodia
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Lesson
Inadequate due diligence can lead to design deficiencies that will make implementation difficult and necessitate changes in scope and detailed designs, with accompanying impacts on project duration, costs, and delivery of results.

Project Number: 37269-013, 37269-023
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion: Rehabilitation of the Railway in Cambodia
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Lesson
Clarity of all provisions in the loan and grant agreements and proactive assistance in consultant recruitment and other areas where executing and implementing agency (EA/IA) capacity is lacking will mitigate the risk of startup delays.

Project Number: 42361-013, 42361-014
Project Name: Medium-Voltage Sub-Transmission Expansion Sector Project and Additional Financing
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Lesson
Implementation schedules, to be realistic, should be informed by EA/IA existing capacities and project-related experiences.

Project Number: 42361-013, 42361-014
Project Name: Medium-Voltage Sub-Transmission Expansion Sector Project and Additional Financing
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Learning from projects that run into a host of challenges but end up satisfactorily meeting all the safeguards requirements is particularly important to improve safeguards compliance in ADB-financed projects.

Project Number: 42361-013, 42361-014
Project Name: Medium-Voltage Sub-Transmission Expansion Sector Project and Additional Financing
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Lesson
Improved clarity on which agencies would undertake specific tasks would enhance implementation. This is the case for Cambodia irrigation scheme information system, Stung Sen river basin planning, Technical Services Centre courses), as well as administration from both CARM and ADB HQ.

Project Number: 38558-013
Project Name: Water Resources Management Sector Development Program: Project Completion Report
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Lesson
Due diligence was deficient by failing to properly assess the political risk. Political stability and support for the achievement of objectives at all levels were explicit in the assumption statements of the design and monitoring framework.

Project Number: 38558-013
Project Name: Water Resources Management Sector Development Program: Project Completion Report
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Lesson
Overall development impact corresponds to the amount of effort put into both ensuring genuine ownership of objectives within the executing and implementing agencies and building capacity among the key stakeholders.

Project Number: 38558-013
Project Name: Water Resources Management Sector Development Program: Project Completion Report
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Lesson
High-level sector policy reform can be achieved with a well-designed sector development program, but that the importance of the wider domestic political economy surrounding the executing agency should not be neglected at design.

Project Number: 38558-013
Project Name: Water Resources Management Sector Development Program: Project Completion Report
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Lesson
GAP performance was not successful overall, in part because of ambitious target setting, the absence of regular monitoring, reporting, and assessment of GAP achievement during the midterm review, inadequate GAP orientation during inception, and insufficient sensitivity and understanding of GAP implementation by stakeholders.

Project Number: 38558-013
Project Name: Water Resources Management Sector Development Program: Project Completion Report
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Lesson
ADB could not have continued to invest in water resources generally or irrigation especially, without major policy reforms to operationalize the provisions of the Water Law.

Project Number: 38558-013
Project Name: Water Resources Management Sector Development Program: Project Completion Report
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Lesson
This validation agrees that cooperation and coordination, especially with other ADB departments, is important. This was a missed opportunity for this TA project. It is, however, not clear though why a visit to the People's Republic of China is required or recommended for the next ACMF TA.

Project Number: 48143-001
Project Name: Enhancing Association of Southeast Asian Nations Capital Market Integration
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