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The program, if designed as a multitranche financing facility where disbursements are made under several tranches according to the agreed criteria, can provide better incentives for continued policy reform efforts by the government.

Project Number: 48479-001
Project Name: Economic Growth and Fiscal Reform Program
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The collection of sex-disaggregated data is a key feature of programs that support women and the policy-based loan funds could have been used as leverage to create such database.

Project Number: 45230-001
Project Name: Women’s Entrepreneurship Support Sector Development Program
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Constraints to small and medium enterprise (SME) financing should have been fully identified at appraisal and addressed in the design.

Project Number: 44060-024
Project Name: Small and Medium Enterprise Investment Program (Tranche 2)
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Policy dialogue for an SDP goes beyond the concerned sector and requires dialogue with other agencies and government officials.

Project Number: 40354-013
Project Name: Health Human Resources Sector Development Program
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The traditional project management structure may need to be reconsidered when implementing a sector development plan (SDP).

Project Number: 40354-013
Project Name: Health Human Resources Sector Development Program
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Procurement procedures for outputs financed by ADB and the government budget are different.

Project Number: 40354-013
Project Name: Health Human Resources Sector Development Program
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It is important to perform technical and economic due diligence and feasibility before policy actions are recommended and implemented.

Project Number: 49232-001
Project Name: Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Air Quality Improvement– Hebei Policy Reforms Program
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The use of the cluster approach provides a framework for a 5-year partnership between ADB and government, giving sufficient time for reforms to take hold and capacity building to take place.

Project Number: 38421-013, 38421-023, 38421-072
Project Name: Promoting Economic Diversification Program
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It is important to balance policy-based lending and capacity building through project grants.

Project Number: 38421-013, 38421-023, 38421-072
Project Name: Promoting Economic Diversification Program
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Overly complex sanitary and phytosanitary standards technology grants pose challenges to potential participants.

Project Number: 38421-013, 38421-023, 38421-072
Project Name: Promoting Economic Diversification Program
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Manageable and tightly focused reform agenda, incentives provided to the government to continue the reforms, and linking the program to the trade policy sector-wide approach all contributed to the successful project outcome.

Project Number: 38421-013, 38421-023, 38421-072
Project Name: Promoting Economic Diversification Program
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No additional lessons

Project Number: 43087-013, 43087-023
Project Name: Crisis Recovery Support Program
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No additional lessons

Project Number: 40272-013, 40058-013
Project Name: Second and Third Development Policy Support Programs
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There was no technical assistance attached to the program. Prior to the loan, however, technical assistance was provided for sector programs that provided technical inputs for the program design on decentralization and state audit systems, and capacity building in infrastructure development for the National Committee for the Acceleration of Infrastructure Development (KKPPI).

Project Number: 39605-013
Project Name: Development Policy Support Program
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While it provides the benefit of flexibility (i.e., deferring subprograms wherein the program design cannot be fully defined at appraisal), care must be taken to maximize the achievement of critical objectives even if ongoing subprograms are canceled.

Project Number: 37752-013
Project Name: Power Sector Development Program
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