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Appropriate monitoring of project activities promotes timely project implementation and accuracy of project cost variations. It provides an assessment of the range of factors contributing to or potentially constraining the achievement of project results. A robust DMF, with appropriate performance indicators, helps in strengthening the quality of project outputs and outcome. During the midterm review and project restructuring due to scope changes, further improvements to the DMF permits necessary adjustment to project components while keeping the project on track.

Project Number: 29296-013, 29296-023
Project Name: Phuoc Hoa Water Resources Project
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Strengthening the capacity of executing agencies with limited experience in implementing ADB-financed projects is imperative to support the delivery of project activities. Extending necessary training and capacity building support (e.g., ADB projects administration, procurement procedures, and financial management), through the provision of a technical assistance, can help fill the skills gap in selected executing and implementing agencies.

Project Number: 29296-013, 29296-023
Project Name: Phuoc Hoa Water Resources Project
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Project implementation highlights the importance of increased accountability and ownership by all stakeholders in achieving the project’s intended outcome. This, along with a well-designed capacity building intervention for implementing agencies, would help facilitate timely implementation and achievement of project results. Complex projects with many components and a wide geographical coverage require a high level of government commitment and ownership.

Project Number: 37749-013
Project Name: Agrarian Reform Communities Project II
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Ensuring that an acceptable cost-sharing arrangement is in place at the outset, prior to project launch, can help minimize project risks. The rural infrastructure component comprising 80% of total actual project cost was not achieved largely as the LGUs were unable to raise the required counterpart contributions. Moreover, it is essential that appropriate due diligence and risk assessment are undertaken and that risk mitigation measures concerning the financial capability of participating local governments are identified at the outset.

Project Number: 37749-013
Project Name: Agrarian Reform Communities Project II
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Annual audited project financial statements covering only the physical implementation period may not capture all project-related expenses and loan disbursements. To facilitate the reconciliation of project accounts with ADB records, financial auditing shall continue until project financial closure.

Project Number: 44192-016
Project Name: SASEC Second Bangladesh-India Electrical Grid Interconnection Project
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For ADB to follow up efficiently on safeguards and financial management compliance, reinforce timely reporting requirements, and to make recommendations on any corrective measures, it is recommended that safeguards and financial management staff participate in review missions.

Project Number: 44192-016
Project Name: SASEC Second Bangladesh-India Electrical Grid Interconnection Project
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The need for some project outputs can decline over time, for several valid reasons. While it is important to avoid unnecessary investments, it is also important to record such changes to note these reasons and revise the design and monitoring framework on time.

Project Number: 44192-016
Project Name: SASEC Second Bangladesh-India Electrical Grid Interconnection Project
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If the project outputs considered in the project designs are not fully assigned to the implementing agency, delivery of those outputs is unlikely. Therefore, all outputs considered at project appraisal should be identified with an implementation arrangement at the design stage and validated during implementation.

Project Number: 44192-016
Project Name: SASEC Second Bangladesh-India Electrical Grid Interconnection Project
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If consultants are required to implement, supervise, monitor, and report safeguards, any delay in their engagement can lead to gaps in the safeguards measures implemented as part of the project.

Project Number: 44192-016
Project Name: SASEC Second Bangladesh-India Electrical Grid Interconnection Project
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Objections by affected persons against development projects such as the construction of transmission lines can be reduced if the laws and procedures relevant to the project are communicated to stakeholders at an early stage through consultations and public information dissemination. Despite receiving a court order in favor of the process followed, delays caused by such objections and legal challenges can have significant costs and other implications, making early resolution of issues a key priority.

Project Number: 44192-016
Project Name: SASEC Second Bangladesh-India Electrical Grid Interconnection Project
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Inaccurate engineering designs at project appraisal, especially when equipment and/or components essential to the project performance are not considered, can increase project costs during project implementation and may even cause delays because of a lack of loan funds. Therefore, additional financing sources and longer implementation periods shall be considered for projects without detailed and accurate designs.

Project Number: 44192-016
Project Name: SASEC Second Bangladesh-India Electrical Grid Interconnection Project
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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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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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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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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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