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Designing public-private partnership (PPP) projects requires a thorough assessment of potential private sector investors.

Project Number: 37091-033
Project Name: Agribusiness Infrastructure Development Investment Program - Project 2
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Stakeholder involvement in project preparation facilitates better alignment of the project design to stakeholder interests.

Project Number: 37091-033
Project Name: Agribusiness Infrastructure Development Investment Program - Project 2
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PPP projects can benefit from robust partnership arrangements.

Project Number: 37091-033
Project Name: Agribusiness Infrastructure Development Investment Program - Project 2
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Agriculture value chains require a dynamic business environment.

Project Number: 37091-033
Project Name: Agribusiness Infrastructure Development Investment Program - Project 2
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Broader reflections on the experiences of the three development partners during their joint implementation of this ambitious program, and the implications for future, similar efforts would have been valuable. The considerable time lost due to misunderstandings among the partners at the beginning of the project, for example, might have been avoided if early agreement had been reached on how to deal with the different accountability mechanisms and requirements of the partners.

Project Number: 34285-013
Project Name: Education Sector Project II
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Additional consideration should be given to check and review the cost estimates by consultants during PPTA, and this needs to be more regularly conducted in India’s norm. Alternatively, a review of cost estimates by an independent contractor could be undertaken before approval, or as soon as the PMU consultant firm is fielded.

Project Number: 32254-013, 32254-023
Project Name: Urban Water Supply and Environmental Improvement in Madhya Pradesh Project
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Country ownership of reforms strengthen their success potentials.

Project Number: 48478-001
Project Name: Fiscal Sustainability Reform Program
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Development partner coordination fosters program success.

Project Number: 48478-001
Project Name: Fiscal Sustainability Reform Program
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Focusing on the most important measures boosts the likelihood of success of a reform agenda.

Project Number: 48478-001
Project Name: Fiscal Sustainability Reform Program
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Fitting reforms to the issues and contexts they are seeking to address is crucial to success.

Project Number: 48478-001
Project Name: Fiscal Sustainability Reform Program
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Gradual and complex reforms require simultaneous activities and flexibility to manage bottlenecks.

Project Number: 48044-001, 48044-004, 48044-005
Project Name: Improving Domestic Resource Mobilization for Inclusive Growth Program
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Diagnostics play an important role in the successful implementation of policy reforms.

Project Number: 48044-001, 48044-004, 48044-005
Project Name: Improving Domestic Resource Mobilization for Inclusive Growth Program
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The project may have benefited from a more decentralized project management structure. The project supported a process of service decentralization while project management itself was centralized.

Project Number: 33409-013
Project Name: Vocational Education Strengthening Project
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While the heating component helped expand the heating service area and reduce the annual coal consumption and sulfur dioxide emissions as targeted, the project formulation team could have carried out more extensive studies to include in the project design innovative measures to gradually phase out coal as the heating source. This is especially important given the ADB’s new energy policy. In the future, ADB will need to take a more cautious approach to decarbonize, as called for by the Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General.

Project Number: 40051-013
Project Name: Gansu Baiyin Urban Development Project
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Project performance may have been better if outcomes had been closely linked to ADB-supported activities, and if they had reflected gradual improvements in the vocational training system rather than the end of point of improved relevance, efficiency, and effectiveness of the vocational training system.

Project Number: 33409-013
Project Name: Vocational Education Strengthening Project
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