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Beyond a broad road map, it may be beneficial to concentrate support on PSEs that have already demonstrated results or good performance.

Project Number: 48065-003
Project Name: Public Sector Enterprises Reform Program (Subprogram 2)
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Focusing PSE reform programs or components thereof on selected demonstrations and bringing these demonstrations to conclusion can produce models on how companies could be liquidated, privatized, or restructured to boost performance.

Project Number: 48065-003
Project Name: Public Sector Enterprises Reform Program (Subprogram 2)
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Specifying the arrangements for availing of and deploying qualified teachers is crucial for implementation of an education program with such components.

Project Number: 39293-037
Project Name: Education Sector Development Program
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The eligibility of schools for upgrading and their selection for support as per the agreed criteria in a program is important for monitoring the implementation of the program.

Project Number: 39293-037
Project Name: Education Sector Development Program
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The lack of a well-designed platform for generating long-term savings and investment products results in low achievement of program results.

Project Number: 48427-001, 48427-002
Project Name: Encouraging Investment through Capital Market Reforms Program
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Risk assessment is an important part of program initiation and requires all parties involved to assess the risks and develop meaningful mitigation strategies.

Project Number: 39538-023
Project Name: MFF–SOE Reform and Corporate Governance Facilitation Program—Tranche 1
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Timely provision of technical and analytic support can improve program design and execution.

Project Number: 47293-001
Project Name: Improving Competitiveness Program
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Tightening the criteria for granting extensions could address multiple extensions in future operations that, in the case of this PFF, resulted in a far longer implementation period than originally envisaged and gave it the character of a standby credit facility rather than a crisis response.

Project Number: 46239-001
Project Name: Precautionary Financing Facility
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The countercyclical support facility (CSF), with a precautionary financing option, has demonstrated its role as part of ADB’s lending products, but its use is likely to be most effective when provided in the context of a development partner coordination mechanism, which includes the participation of the International Monetary Fund.

Project Number: 46239-001
Project Name: Precautionary Financing Facility
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The government must clearly emphasize the vital role that roads play in Bhutan’s socioeconomic development.

Project Number: 39225-022
Project Name: Road Network Project II
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Although there clearly was a commitment to change in relation to most tranche conditions, there was back-tracking on the initial commitment to divest state-owned enterprises. However, after considerable reflection and reconsideration of options over the program period, all state-owned enterprises were successfully divested, and the benefits of this - significantly better operations and financial performance of the ongoing enterprises, and cost savings for those wound up - are increasingly appreciated.

Project Number: 34380-013
Project Name: Agriculture Sector Development Program
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It was not until the establishment of working groups for each of the tranche conditions in late 2005, under the initiative of the program support unit (PSU), that ownership of the process became more localized. There were delays in the development of work plans and budgets, and the consequent disbursement of funds to the working groups caused a delay in meeting tranche conditions. However, resolving difficulties and obstacles was made easier by empowering the working groups to come up with their own ideas and solutions through internal processes.

Project Number: 34380-013
Project Name: Agriculture Sector Development Program
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The implied assumption of the TA work plan (with its heavy emphasis on early TA inputs) was that the policy and institutional reforms would be achieved quite early on and that the remainder of the time would involve just monitoring and evaluation of implementation. Policy reforms take time, and continued monitoring and effort are required from the TA, the counterparts, the government, and ADB throughout the program in order to effect policy and institutional change.

Project Number: 34380-013
Project Name: Agriculture Sector Development Program
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