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Project Number: 32176-013
Project Name: Coral Reef Rehabilitation and Management Project Phase II
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The cost estimates at appraisal are conservative as they are based on the preliminary design with limited geological investigations. The potential cost increase due to complex and difficult terrain and geological conditions was not fully taken into account.

Project Number: 40052-013
Project Name: Kunming Qingshuihai Water Supply Project
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The agriculture marketing subsector in Bangladesh is growing fast and requires public support for promotion, facilitation, legal and regulatory supports, and necessary infrastructure development and training. The future development of agriculture, agro-economy, and rural employment depends on the development of this subsector. There is a need for an appropriate and capable agribusiness development agency that can support future demand, which is now mandated to Department of Agricultural Marketing (DAM).

Project Number: 33224-013
Project Name: Agribusiness Development
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The free connection policy has clearly shown its enormous impact on water supply coverage. A condition of connecting a premise to the water supply is that it must have a sanitation facility complying with local sanitation regulations. Residents are willing to install an approved sanitation facility so they can access the free connection to the piped system. Moreover, this policy has tremendously impacted sanitation coverage in the target communities.

Project Number: 34197-032, 34197-042
Project Name: Northern and Central Regions Water Supply and Sanitation Sector
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Procurement could have been improved. Civil works for conveyance works could have been grouped in bigger packages to attract contractors with good reputation, higher qualification, stronger financial resources, and more experience with large civil works contracts. This will reduce the risk of contract implementation as well as reduce the cost for managing the large number of contracts.

Project Number: 40052-013
Project Name: Kunming Qingshuihai Water Supply Project
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Small enterprises should have been made more rewarding in terms of financial returns on investment and employment opportunities compared to medium and large enterprises. Due to improvement of technology; efficient use of increased capital cost, operating cost, and cost of labor; and ability to meet need for higher efficiency and demand for high quality standards of produce in the market, medium to large agribusiness enterprises are staying in the competition.

Project Number: 33224-013
Project Name: Agribusiness Development
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The participation of women improved project outcomes and gave them more opportunities in business, employment, skill development, marketing, and income generation.

Project Number: 33224-013
Project Name: Agribusiness Development
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The project facilitated the following corporate governance reforms of KWSG

Project Number: 40052-013
Project Name: Kunming Qingshuihai Water Supply Project
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The executing agencies should have had adequate capacity and experience in recruiting consultants to ensure timely availability of necessary consultant inputs. If necessary, advance actions should have been initiated to ensure the fielding of consultants in time.

Project Number: 33224-013
Project Name: Agribusiness Development
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In addition to the physical works, a water quality online monitoring system was established under the project. The system will be integrated into the management information systems developed by KWSG which, as the central water supply monitoring and control platform, will play a significant role in supervising and monitoring the overall supply of reliable, safe and clean water to the city in the future.

Project Number: 40052-013
Project Name: Kunming Qingshuihai Water Supply Project
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The progress of value addition and supply chain development has been inadequate. The concept of value addition, supply chain management, and improved quality of products needs to be linked to export options, reduction of wastage, high quality standards, compliance with phytosanitary and public health standards, and an increased role of women at different levels of agribusiness development. There remains a need for continued support to women to enable them to diversify and scale up their enterprises, and gain access to upper levels of the value chain.

Project Number: 33224-013
Project Name: Agribusiness Development
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Strong commitment from the executing agency and the implementing agency is critical for successful project implementation. Yunnan provincial government and Kunming municipal government strongly supported the project. Additional CNY260 million counterpart funds were provided, and the provincial and municipal governments committed to share partial ADB loan repayment to help release Kunming Water Supply Group Company Limited (KWSG)'s financial burden.

Project Number: 40052-013
Project Name: Kunming Qingshuihai Water Supply Project
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Although Kunming municipal government and Yunnan provincial government provided additional counterpart funding for the project and committed to share a big portion of the ADB loan repayment, KWSG undertook a heavy financial burden resulting from domestic commercial loans for the project (about 44% of the total project cost) and the associated water plants and distribution works (100% of the total cost).

Project Number: 40052-013
Project Name: Kunming Qingshuihai Water Supply Project
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Agriculture marketing associations are not well-organized and federated to meet the needs of the fast-growing domestic agriculture market of Bangladesh.

Project Number: 33224-013
Project Name: Agribusiness Development
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The 299.7 km four-lane expressway was constructed along the existing two-lane class II national highway (G314) and about 85.0 km of the existing highway was intermittently utilized as a part of the expressway. The advantages of using the existing road were the low cost of construction and less land acquisition and resettlement. However, there were disadvantages. First, using the existing road resulted in higher maintenance costs.

Project Number: 39655-013
Project Name: Xinjiang Regional Road Improvement Project (Korla - Kuqa Section)
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