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Building systems and organizational capacity is critical to the success of social assistance programs. Moving beyond a pilot to a national CCTprogram requires establishing project management structures, robust systems for information management, accountability mechanisms, and significant human resources. Despite impressive growth, the Philippines' CCT program faced challenges as it expanded nationally.

Project Number: 43407-013
Project Name: Social Protection Support Project
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It is important to examine the rural grassroots performance of financial intermediaries being considered for agricultural financial service projects with a large number of clients. The performance of potential intermediaries for agricultural financial service projects catering to smallholder farmers, cooperatives, and agricultural small and medium enterprises needs to be examined to ensure that intended benefits are not unduly compromised.

Project Number: 47046-002
Project Name: Gansu Featured Agriculture and Financial Services System Development Project
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Upgrading and retrofitting for energy efficiency improvements during the production process may result in mutual interactions and uncertain impacts, which can cause implementation delays and safety risks. These factors should be noted by future device-upgrading projects in factories; for example, factories should be equipped with more safety and environmental protection personnel, and enough time should be reserved for projects that include upgrading of production processes.

Project Number: 47051-002
Project Name: Chemical Industry Energy Efficiency and Emission Reduction Project
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Technology innovations need to be encouraged, but caution requires that innovations be verified during implementation. The verification may entail additional trials and time, which could lead to longer implementation periods.

Project Number: 47051-002
Project Name: Chemical Industry Energy Efficiency and Emission Reduction Project
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Timely completion of projects requires careful consideration in the project implementation timelines of all factors that could hinder work progress; where these factors cannot be anticipated, timely adjustments and response measures should be undertaken. This project suffered from several challenges like (i) design reviews due to unforeseen soil strata, (ii) security constraints, (iii) lack of skilled labor, (iv) difficult terrain in one road section, and (v) unprecedented rain fall in the project area, etc. some of which are common to infrastructure projects.

Project Number: 47281-001
Project Name: National Highway Network Development in Balochistan Project
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The potential of new technologies and contracting modalities to achieve their intended results is best enhanced by the provision of adequate technical and capacity-building support.

Project Number: 37192-023, 37192-033, 37192-043, 37192-044
Project Name: Power Transmission Enhancement Investment Program 
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Careful consideration of typically applied engineering solutions and examination of project readiness with the use of an agreed upon checklist will help mitigate implementation risks and synchronize startup and financial activities. Engineering solutions that are typically considered could have been looked into during project appraisal, as any changes introduced after loan approval will impact the project cost and implementation period.

Project Number: 50063-001
Project Name: Kashkadarya Regional Road Project
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Viet Nam’s procurement law prohibits executing and implementing agencies from issuing bidding documents until capital resources for the packages have been allocated. The procurement for complex projects may take more than 1 year from bidding documents’ issuance to contract awards. Applying ADB’s advanced actions can mitigate this procurement risk.

Project Number: 39500-013, 39500-023
Project Name: Ho Chi Minh City Urban Mass Rapid Transit Line 2 Investment Program (Tranches 1 and 2, and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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