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Close coordination among key stakeholders is especially required in complex and large-scale projects. Bolstered by strong partnership with and regular involvement and oversight from ADB, the executing agency and the project implementation unit’s professional and technical staff would have contributed to the delivery of the intended outcome and outputs. Professional and technical support was particularly important as the municipality of Ulaanbaatar MUB lack in capacity to effectively manage and coordinate the program.

Project Number: 39256-024
Project Name: Urban Transport Development Investment Program Imultitranche Financing Facility and Tranche 1)
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A holistic approach, which can lead to overambitious scope and targets, needs to be carefully weighed during the project design stage. This program and its numerous outputs adopted a holistic approach, which might now seem overly ambitious, particularly for the first urban transport undertaking in Ulaanbaatar. A phased approach could have been considered to focus resources on clearly identified priorities and to develop capacity.

Project Number: 39256-024
Project Name: Urban Transport Development Investment Program Imultitranche Financing Facility and Tranche 1)
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Complex and large-scale investment programs demand more rigorous front-end analyses to identify appropriate implementation arrangements and timelines. Drawn-out government approval processes, lack of qualified and experienced consultants, and inadequate high-level support and guidance obstructed the implementation of this investment program. Being a complex and the first-generation bus rapid transit investment in Mongolia, the program required a longer implementation period.

Project Number: 39256-024
Project Name: Urban Transport Development Investment Program Imultitranche Financing Facility and Tranche 1)
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Greater familiarization with ADB’s guidelines on the conduct of project-level economic and financial analyses helps facilitate assessments of a project’s economic viability and financial profitability.

Project Number: 44058-013
Project Name: Kathmandu Sustainable Urban Transport Project
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A well-established project performance management system, covering the initial phase of project implementation up to post completion, allows a more systematic collection of baseline, implementation, and post-completion data and information that facilitates a more robust analyses of a project’s outcome and impacts.

Project Number: 44058-013
Project Name: Kathmandu Sustainable Urban Transport Project
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Get the institutional framework right before scaling up.

Project Number: 37220-013, 37220-023, 37220-033
Project Name: Sindh Cities Improvement Investment Program (Tranche 2 and the Multitranche Financing Facility)
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It is important for succeeding tranche loans to have clear provisions of clear conditionality in the program design and lending agreements.

Project Number: 37220-013, 37220-023, 37220-033
Project Name: Sindh Cities Improvement Investment Program (Tranche 2 and the Multitranche Financing Facility)
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Project implementation arrangements need to be based on a thorough assessment of the capacity of all relevant agencies and accordingly adjusted during implementation.

Project Number: 44058-013
Project Name: Kathmandu Sustainable Urban Transport Project
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A comprehensive strategy to address traffic congestion, reduce air pollution from vehicles, and improve walkability is needed to meet the urban transport and livability challenges in the Kathmandu Valley.

Project Number: 44058-013
Project Name: Kathmandu Sustainable Urban Transport Project
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Besides clearly stipulating ADB and country safeguards requirements, the protocols for corrective action in case of breach or noncompliance to such requirements need to be included in civil works contracts.

Project Number: 44058-013
Project Name: Kathmandu Sustainable Urban Transport Project
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Proper baseline data need to be established prior to the start of projects.

Project Number: 44058-013
Project Name: Kathmandu Sustainable Urban Transport Project
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Urban transport planning needs to be based on reliable and robust transport demand projections.

Project Number: 44058-013
Project Name: Kathmandu Sustainable Urban Transport Project
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Robust due diligence in consultant and contractor selection is essential to ensuring smooth and successful project implementation.

Project Number: 44058-013
Project Name: Kathmandu Sustainable Urban Transport Project
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It is important to understand and compare existing mechanisms and designs to promote investments in agribusiness infrastructure.

Project Number: 37091-013, 37091-022, 37091-023
Project Name: Agribusiness Infrastructure Development Investment Program
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When innovative mechanisms such as PPP are to be used, it is critical to build capacity in the implementing agencies and to provide adequate and timely technical support.

Project Number: 37091-013, 37091-022, 37091-023
Project Name: Agribusiness Infrastructure Development Investment Program
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