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Lesson
Promoting collective action can be a challenge, not least in the post-Soviet Union context. Hence, there is a need to carefully analyze past experience, incentives, and the willingness of beneficiaries to sustain collective action and interventions.

Project Number: 40086-013
Project Name: Water Resource Management Sector Project
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Providing technical assistance to strengthen the institutional capacity of newly established states, executing agencies, and implementing agencies is essential. Capacity building activities should be included to enable smooth project execution according to ADB guidelines. The risk of natural disasters needs to be considered better during project design. More thorough due diligence into the frequency of these events needs to be employed, as for example the Sobla-1 hydropower plant was washed away twice, resulting in the abandonment of the project.

Project Number: 37139-043
Project Name: Uttarakhand Power Sector Investment Program–Tranche 3
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Lesson
Providing technical assistance grants is essential to strengthening the institutional capacity of newly established states, executing agencies and implementing agencies, to enable smooth project execution according to ADB guidelines. The risk of natural disasters needs to be assessed appropriately during the project design stage, with special attention to the frequency of these events.

Project Number: 37139-033
Project Name: Uttarakhand Power Sector Investment Program–Tranche 2
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Improving performance of ADB may be achieved through resident mission management rather than from Manila, particularly in countries with complex institutional structures and approval processes.

Project Number: 42489-033
Project Name: Water Supply and Sanitation Services Investment Program (Project 2)
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Lesson
There were issues associated with working with the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations, Investments and Trade (MFERIT) during the project. MFERIT is responsible for registering all construction contracts in the country, but it appears that there are slow processes within MFERIT, which delayed the process and led to significant detrimental effect on the progress of the contractor mobilization. ADB can work with MFERIT to improve processes generally, or at least identify a fast-track approach for externally funded projects.

Project Number: 42107-033
Project Name: Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 2 Road Investment Program (Tranche 2)
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Procurement matters that delay project implementation are a serious issue. Knowledge of procurement procedures is a key aspect of most ADB funded projects and a lack of understanding of the two-stage process should have been rectified earlier. Further training should have been provided to the executing agency, especially since it had limited exposure to ADB procedures and to the prices of the goods and services to be procured under the project.

Project Number: 41041-013
Project Name: Public Finance Management Reform Project
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Lesson
Sustained policy dialogue with government over the years, ownership, and long-term commitment of the government to reforms are key factors for success.

Project Number: 44252-013
Project Name: Financial Market Development and Integration Program
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