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Need for an in-depth examination of GSE’s financial performance to ensure that the risk of large investments in the 400 kV and 500 kV transmission system can be managed. Also, consideration must be given to include in contracts the benefits from power transit and their associated market risks in neighboring countries and investment. This is in view of GSE being unable to manage the risk if the revenue from power transit is linked only to the power flow (footnote 15).

Project Number: 44183-013
Project Name: Regional Power Transmission Enhancement Project
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The need to study the structure of the regional power market and hold discussions with the related agencies on introducing measures to increase the price of excess hydropower generation during summer months. This could, for example, be undertaken by a market supervisor or regulator who checks market power.

Project Number: 44183-013
Project Name: Regional Power Transmission Enhancement Project
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The rehabilitation or reconstruction of damaged infrastructure should be evaluated and implemented using simplified but transparent procurement procedures to reduce processing time and to restore normal living and livelihood conditions existing before the disaster. It is essential the rehabilitation or reconstruction of damaged infrastructure should be appropriately designed for disaster risks and climate resilience.

Project Number: 43001-012
Project Name: Emergency Flood Damage Rehabilitation Project
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Given the frequency and severity of natural calamities, the government needs to have in place a fully functioning national disaster management system, including monitoring of hydrological and geological conditions, to identify vulnerable locations with a high probability of possible disasters, so that appropriate mitigation can be planned. This should have been one focus of project identification activities to prioritize projects mitigating or preventing the occurrence of natural disasters.

Project Number: 43001-012
Project Name: Emergency Flood Damage Rehabilitation Project
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Improving performance of ADB may be achieved through resident mission management rather than from Manila, particularly in countries with complex institutional structures and approval processes.

Project Number: 42489-033
Project Name: Water Supply and Sanitation Services Investment Program (Project 2)
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Gender impact assessment should include more holistic impact on gender equity or mainstreaming in the project design, and not just limited to employment opportunities from project construction.

Project Number: 42382-013
Project Name: Liaoning Small Cities and Towns Development Demonstration Sector Project
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Projects intended to provide demonstration effects should include measurable performance indicators in the DMF at appraisal to ensure best practices in project design and implementation, including environmental and resettlement safeguards.

Project Number: 42382-013
Project Name: Liaoning Small Cities and Towns Development Demonstration Sector Project
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The project’s comprehensive and well-executed monitoring framework provides a good model for similar infrastructure-focused investments. It had clear, measurable indicators linked to each planned output and outcome that were critical for assessing both physical and institutional progress to provide some prognosis of sustainability.

Project Number: 40641-013
Project Name: Hebei Small Cities and Towns Development Demonstration Sector Project
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The project’s programmatic approach, which allowed flexible identification, selection, design, and modification of subprojects in the early years under the sector loan modality, was an effective approach that should be replicated in other cities of the PRC.

Project Number: 40641-013
Project Name: Hebei Small Cities and Towns Development Demonstration Sector Project
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The need for robust evidencing mechanisms that can track outcomes and impacts credibly. Core issues of poverty reduction, income generation, and increased productivity require careful monitoring, preferably including a comparable group of nonbeneficiaries to assess the real impact of the project.

Project Number: 40086-013
Project Name: Water Resource Management Sector Project
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Irrigation and drainage provision for many beneficiaries, as opposed to a few big farmers or collectives, requires substantial evidence of the governance models that can work to ensure sustainability. Technical challenges are only part of the problem in improving agricultural productivity and incomes. Commensurate attention is needed at farmlevel capacity development at project design, including outcome-level targets.

Project Number: 40086-013
Project Name: Water Resource Management Sector Project
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Promoting collective action can be a challenge, not least in the post-Soviet Union context. Hence, there is a need to carefully analyze past experience, incentives, and the willingness of beneficiaries to sustain collective action and interventions.

Project Number: 40086-013
Project Name: Water Resource Management Sector Project
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ADB staff need to be trained in economic analysis, specifically the identification, quantification, and valuation of economic benefits. This would improve the credibility of EIRR calculations.

Project Number: 39019-013
Project Name: Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Environment Improvement Project
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Since capacity building components of projects are rarely on the critical path to project completion, such as the institutional reform and corporate governance improvement component of this project, capacity building could be undertaken as a stand-alone technical assistance to avoid implementation delays caused by other components of the project.

Project Number: 39019-013
Project Name: Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Environment Improvement Project
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When doing the design and monitoring framework (DMF) exercise, outcomes should describe the immediate and direct benefits of the project. Outcome statements articulate the change the project is expected to achieve—in this case, the management of in-migration. No separate outcome statement or concept was included in the DMF.

Project Number: 38049-013
Project Name: Urban Infrastructure Development Project
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