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More effective utilization of consultants helps improve project implementation. As the international consultants are selected based on the experience and expertise in engineering and project management, they are required to remain in close proximity to the project site and assist in the development and monitoring of project and subproject programs. They have the capacity for assuming a stronger advisory role for a project to be successful.

Project Number: 41504-023
Project Name: Town Electrification Investment Program - Tranche 1
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Properly defining technical parameters ensures successful project implementation. The required equipment for end terminals, estimated to cost $0.5 million, was omitted from the pertinent package; thus the $29.1 million investment was idle. The target annual power generation of 60 gigawatt-hours was an overestimate as it required securing agreements for purchasing 40% of the output of the private sector’s biomass power projects and an optimistic utilization factor of 70% of the run-of-river HPPs.

Project Number: 41504-023
Project Name: Town Electrification Investment Program - Tranche 1
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Reliable small hydropower plants and economically efficient renewable energy sources can contribute to decarbonize island-state economies. Other renewable energy sources such as solar photovoltaic, floating solar photovoltaic, wind and ocean energy complement the existing SHPs and help to diversify generation mix. It also helps to lower the cost of electricity production and improve utilities’ financial performance

Project Number: 46044-002
Project Name: Renewable Energy Development and Power Sector Rehabilitation Project
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Project administration missions with poor monitoring of the quality of the design and implementation of the project performance management system can negatively affect assessments of the project’s development results.

Project Number: 46044-002
Project Name: Renewable Energy Development and Power Sector Rehabilitation Project
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It is important to have tranche-specific DMFs that are logical, with sound links of outcome and output targets that are formulated in line with the principle of being specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and timebound. For a specific tranche, the outcome and output indicators can jointly work to reflect the appropriateness and continuum of the results chain leading up to the high-level development impacts that are most relevant to the scope and focus of the tranche.

Project Number: 37139-023
Project Name: Uttaranchal Power Sector Investment Program - Tranche 1
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The scope and amount of an MFF need to be realistically designed by avoiding an optimistic assumption that the absorptive and implementation capacity of the executing and implementing agencies would achieve a significant improvement during program implementation. Simpler project designs, with specific purposes and fewer agencies involved in a limited number of locations, are also more likely to succeed than those with a broad scope and overly ambitious and complex structures.

Project Number: 37139-023
Project Name: Uttaranchal Power Sector Investment Program - Tranche 1
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The choice of a multifinancing facility (MFF)\ as the financing modality for a proposed investment needs to be adequately justified, with due consideration of the fulfillment of preconditions, scope of tranches, and the extent to which an MFF would generate potential value addition in terms of efficiency, portfolio performance, and development results as compared to standalone project-based loans.

Project Number: 37139-023
Project Name: Uttaranchal Power Sector Investment Program - Tranche 1
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Adequate due diligence at appraisal can ensure appropriate project design and a realistic project implementation plan and timeframe duly considering the borrower's and executing agency's capacity across institutional, financial, and operational aspects. Identifying and implementing risk mitigation measures and providing adequate early-stage support are crucial in minimizing initial delays and addressing emerging project needs. Risks associated with natural disasters can be an integral component of risk assessment at project design.

Project Number: 37139-023
Project Name: Uttaranchal Power Sector Investment Program - Tranche 1
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Extending the availability period of a multitranche financing facility (MFF) can result in a better development impact.

Project Number: 37139-023
Project Name: Uttaranchal Power Sector Investment Program - Tranche 1
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Grant funding to utilities needs to adequately consider their financial sustainability requirements.

Project Number: 37139-023
Project Name: Uttaranchal Power Sector Investment Program - Tranche 1
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Climate-proofing, best undertaken on the basis of a sound climate risk assessment, is critical to maximizing the economic benefits and development impacts of ADB projects.

Project Number: 37139-023
Project Name: Uttaranchal Power Sector Investment Program - Tranche 1
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Timely and sustained communication with EAs/IAs is essential to resolving financial management and reporting issues.

Project Number: 37139-023
Project Name: Uttaranchal Power Sector Investment Program - Tranche 1
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Assessment of project readiness should cover not only procurement but also environmental and social safeguards.

Project Number: 37139-023
Project Name: Uttaranchal Power Sector Investment Program - Tranche 1
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Having a pragmatic implementation arrangement and engaging the most appropriate executing and implementing agencies (EAs/IAs) are critical to project success.

Project Number: 37139-023
Project Name: Uttaranchal Power Sector Investment Program - Tranche 1
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Poor quality indicators and design and monitoring framework (DMFs) make progress monitoring and performance evaluation difficult.

Project Number: 37139-023
Project Name: Uttaranchal Power Sector Investment Program - Tranche 1
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