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For sector loan projects where several past related interventions and investments were provided, building on progress achieved from them and duly taking account of relevant recommendations can optimize project design and fasttrack project implementation towards efficient fund utilization and satisfactory delivery of project outputs. In the case of this project, its design capitalized on the capacity of the implementing agencies strengthened through previous ADB projects and the flexibility of a sector loan to incentivize them to perform and compete for securing the investment funds.

Project Number: 39298-013
Project Name: City Region Development Project
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Giving equal importance to the institutional and capacity support and infrastructure investments under a sector loan strengthens commitment, ownership, and accountability of the executing agency. The implementation of infrastructure component of the project, coupled with timely technical support and capacity building, is pivotal to ensuring project readiness and implementation progress in a highly challenging context.

Project Number: 39298-013
Project Name: City Region Development Project
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Adequate risk assessment and mitigation measures are important to help ensure project readiness. Consultations with project beneficiaries and affected persons and conducting social impact assessments during appraisal help strengthen project design and implementation (e.g., identification of safeguards-compliant project sites, beneficiaries’ participation, land acquisition requirements, design of relatedredressed mechanisms, among other things). These facilitate in identifying candidate subproject locations so that unnecessary location changes that cause delays can be avoided.

Project Number: 36339-022
Project Name: Small Towns Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project
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When implementation arrangements are revised, it is vital to streamline the approval processes to facilitate subsequent project activities. After the Government of Australia's withdrawal of funding, the delay in the approval of the changes to the implementation arrangement also significantly delayed the recruitment of implementation consultants and in designing the water supply systems. This situation could have been avoided if timely approval of such change was prioritized, which could have allowed the civil works for designing water supply systems to commence on time

Project Number: 36339-022
Project Name: Small Towns Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project
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More reliable cost estimates would help prevent implementation delays and improve disbursement performance.

Project Number: 45198-004
Project Name: Secondary Cities Development Project
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Startup delays, a persistent issue and possibility in Viet Nam, need to be considered when developing implementation plans and contract award and disbursement projections for ADB projects in the country.

Project Number: 45198-004
Project Name: Secondary Cities Development Project
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Government counterpart funding needs to be secured to implement project gender action plans (GAPs).

Project Number: 45198-004
Project Name: Secondary Cities Development Project
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Building the capacity of project management units (PMUs) and empowering them to take decisions, as appropriate, will promote project success

Project Number: 45198-004
Project Name: Secondary Cities Development Project
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It is important not to anticipate partial loan cancellations in ADB projects in Viet Nam to avoid unrealistic contract award and disbursement projections.

Project Number: 45198-004
Project Name: Secondary Cities Development Project
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Potential increases in land acquisition and resettlement (LAR) costs need to be carefully considered in the project cost estimates when a full survey to establish LAR impacts cannot be accommodated during the design stage.

Project Number: 45198-004
Project Name: Secondary Cities Development Project
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Municipal–level capacity development and performance monitoring are essential to making the city region work in improving municipal governance and infrastructure.

Project Number: 39298-013
Project Name: City Region Development Project
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An integrated solid waste management (SWM) facility can have a transformative effect on community-level SWM.

Project Number: 39298-013
Project Name: City Region Development Project
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Simpler and more tightly knit implementation arrangements will make project execution and coordination easier to undertake.

Project Number: 39298-013
Project Name: City Region Development Project
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Changes in scope present opportunities for enhancing the project design and monitoring frameworks (DMFs) and making them more effective in improving project performance.

Project Number: 39298-013
Project Name: City Region Development Project
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Robust technical due diligence and thorough feasibility studies will help minimize the need for scope changes, reallocations, and loan extensions.

Project Number: 39298-013
Project Name: City Region Development Project
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