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Financing repairs. The government should take effective financing measures for O&M and repairs to support IMCs and the cooperatives, especially through the provincial people’s committees. Mechanisms to ensure that IMCs and WUGs receive funds at the right time for repairs are needed. At a minimum, WUGs and cooperatives must work closely with the IMCs to ensure timely and effective O&M. The newly established Disaster Management Authority within MARD should play a role in this.

Project Number: 30292-023
Project Name: Central Region Water Resources Project
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Measures to minimize flood damage. Close monitoring of the condition of the infrastructure is needed and cost recovery measures should be instituted for O&M of: (i) tertiary systems managed by cooperatives, and (ii) primary and secondary systems managed by IMCs and IMEs. The findings of the monitoring exercises should be regularly shared with the central and provincial governments to help MARD and the DARDs prepare budgets and mobilize resources.

Project Number: 30292-023
Project Name: Central Region Water Resources Project
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Making use of water users groups. Although their autonomy was short-lived, WUGs functioned well using hydraulic boundaries. Project WUGs had their own bank accounts and stamp and the right to sign contracts. They received training in irrigation planning and management and financial management. Empowered water users became fully committed to the infrastructure that was crucial to their agriculture livelihood. It was acknowledged by the IMCs, the cooperatives, and even by DARDs that some WUGs constructed tertiary irrigation canals more quickly and/or at lower cost than PPMUs.

Project Number: 30292-023
Project Name: Central Region Water Resources Project
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Appropriate monitoring systems. The project introduced a project performance monitoring system that made use of GIS and was supposed to be applied by the PPMUs. However, since benefits started to materialize only upon completion of the project, the government was more interested in construction monitoring. After the project, no funds were available for the continued use of the project performance monitoring system and it has been abandoned.

Project Number: 30292-023
Project Name: Central Region Water Resources Project
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ADB project documents need to be clear on how projects are to lead to sustainable results. The absence of consultants to address issues regarding the legal and technical aspects of O&M planning and funding, measures for cost recovery, tariff collection, and the metering system posed a risk to the sustainability of the water supply and sanitation subprojects. Future projects should include technical assistance that would implemented concurrently with the project.

Project Number: 41198-013, 43171-013
Project Name: Municipal Services Development Project and Municipal Services Development Project Phase 2
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Loans for the Municipal Development Funds should be implemented as proper financial intermediary loans. The projects were designed as financial intermediation loans largely because the government wanted to disburse funds and execute subprojects quickly. MDF had the capacity and had prior experience of implementing such loans through an earlier World Bank project.

Project Number: 41198-013, 43171-013
Project Name: Municipal Services Development Project and Municipal Services Development Project Phase 2
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ADB needs to invest in a good PPMS. The evaluation mission’s difficulty in measuring the efficiency of water supply and road subprojects financed under MSDP and MSDP Phase 2 was the result of an inadequate PPMS that focused mainly on monitoring disbursements and outputs. Baseline data were not collected on the market served by water supply subprojects, such as the number of households, persons per household, water sources, amounts of water produced and consumed, and water loss rates.

Project Number: 41198-013, 43171-013
Project Name: Municipal Services Development Project and Municipal Services Development Project Phase 2
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Allocations for capacity building components need to be maintained. Discussions and interviews with MDF staff and municipal governments during the evaluation mission pointed to the need for further capacity building of MDF and municipal governments. This was one of the objectives of the projects.

Project Number: 41198-013, 43171-013
Project Name: Municipal Services Development Project and Municipal Services Development Project Phase 2
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No additional lessons

Project Number: 42358-013
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion
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Combination of major expressway construction and link roads improvement, including national and provincial highways and rural roads, contributes to inclusive economic growth. On financing, ADB financed 13.2% of the project cost with the balance provided by the national and provincial governments including loans from the Bank of China and the China Construction Bank. Leveraging funds was a key aspect of ADB financing under the project.

Project Number: 40626-013
Project Name: Yunnan Integrated Road Network Development Project
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The presence of ADB in such a consortium gives added credence to the project’s viability. Project-level lessons. The validation views that community-based routine rural road maintenance by women proved successful resulting in lower costs and improved work. The approach, using performance-based contracting, addressed the funding shortage to maintain rural roads and assisted poor women in rural communities. This approach to routine rural road maintenance should prove to be a model for similar activities in other provinces not only in PRC but also in other countries.

Project Number: 40626-013
Project Name: Yunnan Integrated Road Network Development Project
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There is a need for ADB projects to further strengthen the quality of economic analysis, particularly in the areas of quantification and valuation of economic benefits, and shadow pricing, to strengthen reporting on project performance. The methodology needs to be better understood by all, and more consistency is required by ADB staff, consultants, and the government in such analyses. Perhaps better and more explicit guidelines are called for.

Project Number: 40626-013
Project Name: Yunnan Integrated Road Network Development Project
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Changes in government policy during project implementation can influence project outcomes. The project benefited from an improved health insurance mechanism introduced by the Government of Viet Nam.

Project Number: 40019-013
Project Name: Health Care in the South Central Coast Region Project
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When projects are implemented under decentralization, consultation and capacity building of the provinces and implementing agencies at the decentralized level are essential and need to start during project preparation. The needs identified by the central level may not be felt at the decentralized level, which could result in delays or non-implementation of project activities, reducing the potential benefits of the project.

Project Number: 40019-013
Project Name: Health Care in the South Central Coast Region Project
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To achieve poverty reduction and equity, the needs of disadvantaged groups must be identified not only by technically qualified experts, but also by the intended beneficiaries. Planning and budgeting for health services must be based on accurate and disaggregated data that are made available on time.

Project Number: 40019-013
Project Name: Health Care in the South Central Coast Region Project
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