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Lesson
The cost categories required to be reported in the audited program financial statements (APFS) need to align with the categorization at appraisal so as not to cause problems in reporting. PLN faced difficulty in estimating the financing charges during implementation at appraisal stage. In addition, PLN raised a concern on the disclosure provision regarding APFS due to confidentiality requirements. The cost categories reported in the APFS were not aligned with the categorization used at appraisal, due to which changes to reporting formats were needed.

Project Number: 50016-001
Project Name: Sustainable Energy Access in Eastern Indonesia—Electricity Grid Development Program
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Lesson
Insufficient financial staffing and difficulties in information collection could hinder compliance to ADB financial requirements. During implementation, the IA faced challenges in complying with ADB’s financial management requirements. Submissions of audited project and entity financial statements were delayed because of (i) difficult information collection process, (ii) reports not complying with ADB guidelines, and (iii) insufficient accounting staff because of Uzbekenergo’s unbundling and restructuring.

Project Number: 41340-013
Project Name: Advanced Electricity Metering Project
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Lesson
The participation of a financial management specialist in review missions and site visits will help improve capacity and ensure timely financial reporting. The project generally met ADB’s financial monitoring and reporting requirements. However, submission of the audited project financial statements was at times delayed. The delays could have been avoided by having a financial management specialist participate in project review missions and site visits. The measure could have also enhanced the capacity and awareness of ADB financial management procedures.

Project Number: 41626-013
Project Name: Bihar Power System Improvement Project
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Lesson
The participation of a financial management specialist in review missions and site visits will help improve capacity and compliance with statutory and financial covenants. The project generally met ADB’s financial monitoring and reporting requirements. But it encountered delays in the submission of the audited project financial statement for fiscal years 2016 and 2017. These delays could have been avoided by having a financial management specialist participate in project review missions and site visits.

Project Number: 44426-014
Project Name: National Grid Improvement Project
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Lesson
Establishing a realistic resettlement implementation schedule and allowing adequate time to consult with affected persons are essential to reducing the resettlement risks in urban projects.

Project Number: 44021-013
Project Name: Integrated Development of Key Townships in Central Liaoning
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Lesson
ADB should ensure adequate government allocations for land acquisition and resettlement (LAR) and tighten its monitoring and oversight to keep in check safeguards noncompliance and implementation delays

Project Number: 42039-034
Project Name: Power Transmission Investment Program - Tranche 1
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Lesson
Learning from projects that run into a host of challenges but end up satisfactorily meeting all the safeguards requirements is particularly important to improve safeguards compliance in ADB-financed projects.

Project Number: 42361-013, 42361-014
Project Name: Medium-Voltage Sub-Transmission Expansion Sector Project and Additional Financing
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Lesson
Implementation schedules, to be realistic, should be informed by EA/IA existing capacities and project-related experiences.

Project Number: 42361-013, 42361-014
Project Name: Medium-Voltage Sub-Transmission Expansion Sector Project and Additional Financing
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Lesson
Proper design and implementation of social safeguards requires an accurate assessment of potential impacts, adequate capacity in the executing and implementing agencies (EAs/IAs), effective grievance redress mechanisms, and pragmatic measures to address grievances and support vulnerable groups.

Project Number: 38628-022
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion Northern Power Transmission Project
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Lesson
The lesson seems to highlight the importance of securing government and stakeholder ownership in order to deliver results. However, it stops short of outlining what approaches work best to secure stakeholder participation.

Project Number: 41613-012
Project Name: Integrated Renewable Energy Development
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Lesson
In the particular context of this TA, a lesson could be that stakeholder consultations are important especially for getting practitioner insights into the development of guidelines for migrating existing projects into new ones

Project Number: 41613-012
Project Name: Integrated Renewable Energy Development
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Lesson
A lesson statement would be: It is critical to retain flexibility in the development of a regional assistance program's portfolio of interventions through a dynamic prioritization of work to respond to changes in country-specific priorities and manage demands and expectations in evolving political and development contexts.

Project Number: 46500-001
Project Name: Establishment of the Pacific Regional Infrastructure Facility Coordination Office
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Lesson
For regional TAs, it is important to engage both regional stakeholders (such as SASEC), as well as to work in tandem with local stakeholders. Also, insights emerging from fact-finding missions are a useful means to undertake in-country consultations and engage local stakeholders.

Project Number: 45419-001
Project Name: SASEC Subregional Energy Efficiency Initiative
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Lesson
This validation notes that Myanmar’s inclusion and its approval of the regional transmission master plan in principle supported the excellent level of stakeholder participation. Broad and expanded stakeholder participation is a good indicator of the success of a TA in delivering cross-border projects and regional networking and knowledge sharing across national borders.

Project Number: 47107-001
Project Name: South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation CrossBorder Power Trade Development
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Lesson
Succinct discussions on the content of training courses and workshop, including participants’ uptake, help facilitate the assessment of capacity-building initiatives.

Project Number: 48432-001
Project Name: Enabling Poor Women's Benefits from Enhanced Access to Energy in Hatiya Island
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