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Lesson
The overall financial strength and institutional capability of the sector are important to ensure the successful implementation of large infrastructure projects which require a significant amount of counterpart financing. The ADB loan contributed 21% of the cost of the ZPSHPP and 15% of the total project cost; the remaining financing was mobilized from domestic banks, shareholder financing, and local government financing.

Project Number: 28212-013
Project Name: Hebei Zhanghewan Pumped Storage Project
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A strong technical and economic rationale for the project ensures its success even if the institutional arrangements for its implementation change. Significant changes to the power sector in Hebei Province and to the implementation arrangements of the Zhanghewan Pumped Storage Hydro Power Plant (ZPSHPP) did not affect implementation of the ZPSHPP, as it had strong technical and economic relevance to the needs of the Hebei power system.

Project Number: 28212-013
Project Name: Hebei Zhanghewan Pumped Storage Project
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The government should also be forewarned of the need to develop and install a support system to sustain the water management cooperative associations given their vulnerability to scheming and divisive tactics from various self-serving groups.

Project Number: 30209-013
Project Name: Second Small-Scale Water Resources Development Sector Project
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Implementation delays could not have ensued and loan extension could have been negated if the following were undertaken early on during project preparation or implementation: (i) identification and deployment of qualified personnel, (ii) conscientious study of the manpower requirements of the Integrated Water Resources Management Unitwith the view of stemming employee turnover and sustaining staff interest and commitment to work, (iii) careful selection of partner NGOs, and (iv) thorough needs assessment of subprojects.

Project Number: 30209-013
Project Name: Second Small-Scale Water Resources Development Sector Project
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Recruitment of supervision consultants and major civil works contractor was delayed by the Roads and Highways Department. This delay was further aggravated by problems with land acquisition and tree removals. In recent ADB-assisted projects in Bangladesh, advance work for land acquisition, tree removal and resettlement commenced before selection of civil works contractors.

Project Number: 34415-013
Project Name: Road Network Improvement and Maintenance Project II
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There should have been adequate assessment at appraisal of the suitability of a new facility such as the cost-sharing facility, especially in the context of Bhutan where the number of business development services (BDS) providers is small and where government heavily subsidizes training for BDS.

Project Number: 39221-022
Project Name: Micro, Small, and Medium-Sized Enterprise Sector Development Program
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No additional lesson.

Project Number: 39652-033
Project Name: Gansu Heihe Rural Hydropower Development Investment Program – Dagushan Hydropower Project
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The growing evidence that community-driven development approaches deliver investments that greatly impact beneficiaries in a cost-effective manner is presumably applicable to situations where it is feasible and economical for beneficiaries to observe project activities.

Project Number: 40247-013
Project Name: Rural Infrastructure Support to the PNPM Mandiri Project
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Implementing a project with a large number of road subprojects together, with a capacity building component, would strain implementing agency staff resources and divide their attention among components. The capacity building component should have preceded the loan through a technical assistance grant.

Project Number: 36320-013
Project Name: Rural Roads Sector I Project
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No additional lesson.

Project Number: 34390-013
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion Transmission Project
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Choose sustainable implementation arrangements. Although the same person headed the Agency for Vocational Education and the project implementation unit, there was a lack of integration between the two organizations. The project activities were separately implemented and managed by the project implementation unit without involving the staff of the Agency for Vocational Education. As a result, activities initiated under the project may slow down after the departure of the project implementation unit consultants.

Project Number: 38298-022
Project Name: Vocational Education and Skills Development Project
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The project cost is within the approved cost estimate, which can be attributed to accurate preliminary and detailed designs. Contingencies envisaged at appraisal sufficiently covered all routine variations. The Sichuan Provincial Transport Department and Sichuan Dashaan Expressway Company Limited started preliminary and detailed designs during the project processing stage, and results of both designs were incorporated in the project design, contract packaging, and preparation of the procurement plan.

Project Number: 37490-013
Project Name: Eastern Sichuan Roads Development Project
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Subproject packaging and procurement. During procurement for civil works packages, the response to bid was low. Some packages received no response, even after the 7th call. Repackaging and rebidding for such contract packages slowed down the procurement process. In the meantime, the ADB procurement review revealed that a number of contractors had been awarded more than one contract and that most of them submitted bids for multiple contracts within a district.

Project Number: 37066-053
Project Name: Rural Roads Sector II Investment Program - Project 4
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Water reuse. Water reuse was included in the project design, which contributed to water conservation and efficiency. For commercial use of reclaimed water, identification of suitable industrial users is critical. Lingqing and Gaotang municipal wastewater management subprojects identified two existing paper mills close to the wastewater treatment plants as potential users at appraisal, and started providing treated wastewater upon operation of wastewater treatment plants to generate revenues.

Project Number: 36505-013
Project Name: Shandong Hai River Basin Pollution Control Project
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It is easy to overestimate the capacity needed to implement a project that is largely undertaking pilot activities and which also involves significant reforms. At all levels of involvement - executing agency, service providers, contractors, farmers' water user community members - capacity constraints affected project performance. In these circumstances, the project design was both overambitious (e.g., by not focusing on fewer subprojects from the outset) and not rigorous enough (in its analysis of the risks and assumptions inherent in many operations).

Project Number: 34379-013
Project Name: Northwest Irrigation Sector Project
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