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Loan savings should be identified early in the project and applied to activities that promote project outcomes.

Project Number: 36437-013
Project Name: Integrated Ecosystem and Water Resources Management in the Baiyangdian Basin Project
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It is important to ensure that all projects have appropriate monitoring processes in place—early in the project period and before construction commences.

Project Number: 36437-013
Project Name: Integrated Ecosystem and Water Resources Management in the Baiyangdian Basin Project
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The integration of wastewater treatment, water supply, and environment improvement can be a valuable approach in appropriate locations.

Project Number: 36437-013
Project Name: Integrated Ecosystem and Water Resources Management in the Baiyangdian Basin Project
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As part of the economic rationale for the project, private sector involvement should be considered for all projects proposed for ADB financing; this is particularly important for former centrally planned economies where the private sector is not yet fully developed.

Project Number: 45120-003
Project Name: Samarkand Solar Power Project
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Multitranche financing facility design, when appropriate, can also bring benefits to the rural poor. The MFF enabled augmentation of the transmission and distribution system. The energy supplied to consumers has increased by a factor of 2.3 in 13 years (Table 3). Through initiatives taken by the government, there was increase in supply to rural areas with more low-income households. The consumption in rural areas increased by a factor of 2.1 from 13,891 GWh in FY2012 to 29,180 GWh in FY2019.

Project Number: 32298-013, 32298-023, 32298-033, 32298-043, 32298-053, 32298-063, 32298-073
Project Name: Madhya Pradesh Power Sector Investment Program
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Flexibility of multitranche financing facility design and process contributes to greater efficiency and harmonization of funds in the sector. As the MFF was implemented concurrently with several other initiatives to improve the state’s electrical distribution systems (para. 12), it was essential for each successive tranche to be specifically designed to fill gaps not covered by the various ongoing schemes to ensure the best use of the ADB loan funds.

Project Number: 32298-013, 32298-023, 32298-033, 32298-043, 32298-053, 32298-063, 32298-073
Project Name: Madhya Pradesh Power Sector Investment Program
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Lessons learned from earlier interventions need to be incorporated during implementation. An earlier PPER for the Madhya Pradesh Power Sector Development Program implemented from 2002 to 2007 had highlighted the need to reduce AT&C losses by improving billing and collection efficiency and discouraging electricity theft by taking legal action against pilferers as a necessary follow-up to ensure financial sustainability.

Project Number: 32298-013, 32298-023, 32298-033, 32298-043, 32298-053, 32298-063, 32298-073
Project Name: Madhya Pradesh Power Sector Investment Program
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To get approval from customary landowners during land acquisition, the alternative of leasing land from the landowners with an annual lump sum payment by the utility or government or a payment on a per kWh output basis could be explored to give the landowners a vested interest in the project.

Project Number: 46014-002
Project Name: Provincial Renewable Energy Project
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The presence of a champion in managing cross-departmental transaction is essential. The CHP 5 transaction was the first cross-departmental collaboration across the East Asia Department (EARD) (upstream development and associated facility), Private Sector Operations Department (finance to CHP 5 plant), and the Office of Public–Private Partnership and Office of the General Counsel (transaction advisory), which jointly provided assistance to facilitate the deal. Director General, EARD was the anchor for coordination across the teams and the government.

Project Number: 46343-002
Project Name: Preparing the Energy Efficiency and Urban Environment Improvement Project
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The two-part approach of the TA project implementation was effective to flexibly accommodate changes in project environment and the government’s needs,and define the project scope for due diligence. Since CHP 5 construction was outside of direct control of the TA project, there were several occasions to change the technical specifications and subcomponent scope to accommodate the request from the CHP 5 concessionaire and the government.

Project Number: 46343-002
Project Name: Preparing the Energy Efficiency and Urban Environment Improvement Project
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Frequent change in the government remains a major risk to build up the energy sector pipeline in Mongolia. It was also a cause of delayed investment in baseload generation capacity development for power and heat supply in Ulaanbaatar and of much delayed response to improve air quality in the city. All requested projects in Mongolia would need to carefully factor in changes in government that directly impacts project processing especially for a project involving multiple domestic stakeholders and requiring lengthy preparation and processing time.

Project Number: 46343-002
Project Name: Preparing the Energy Efficiency and Urban Environment Improvement Project
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Ambitions of the National Highway Authority to undertake new projects demanding substantially more human and financial resources than its institutional capacity must be rationalized and tempered based on realistic expectations.

Project Number: 40075-023
Project Name: National Trade Corridor Highway Investment Program (Tranche 1)
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Delays in the release of payment must be avoided in order to assure contractor performance to be on schedule and avoid costly litigation and arbitration, which are inherently inefficient and unproductive.

Project Number: 40075-023
Project Name: National Trade Corridor Highway Investment Program (Tranche 1)
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Funds must be made available in a timely manner to meet contractual obligations.

Project Number: 40075-023
Project Name: National Trade Corridor Highway Investment Program (Tranche 1)
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Poorly designed DMF indicators and targets, and the lack of timely data collection have undermined ADB’s ability to correctly document the impact of this project.

Project Number: 40075-023
Project Name: National Trade Corridor Highway Investment Program (Tranche 1)
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