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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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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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One significant additional lesson is the importance of monitoring the results of reform programs even after the financial closure of the program, ensuring that the government and its various implementing agencies develop a strong sense of ownership for the reform initiatives. As pointed out in para. 19, these types of SME reform measures would usually take much longer time to achieve real outcomes on the ground.

Project Number: 34344 -013, 38335-013
Project Name: Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Program Cluster (Subprograms 1 and 2)
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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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