Urban Transport Development Investment Program Imultitranche Financing Facility and Tranche 1)

A holistic approach, which can lead to overambitious scope and targets, needs to be carefully weighed during the project design stage. This program and its numerous outputs adopted a holistic approach, which might now seem overly ambitious, particularly for the first urban transport undertaking in Ulaanbaatar. A phased approach could have been considered to focus resources on clearly identified priorities and to develop capacity. The development of a sustainable urban mobility plan for Ulaanbaatar would have helped define a long-term vision and strategy and identify priority projects for the urban transport sector. This process would have also provided the basis capacity development and grounds to initiate institutional reforms.