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With the project's investment in improving wastewater treatment, solid waste management and recycling, an opportunity arose to establish and impose full cost recovery tariffs and charges for these activities. Appropriate tariff studies could have been undertaken and with recommendations for replication in other towns.

Project Number: 43319-022
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion East-West Economic Corridor Towns Development Project
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A comprehensive master plan combined with arrangements that put the upstream catchment management and lake management under single administrations can deliver lasting results.

Project Number: 44036-013
Project Name: Anhui Chao Lake Environmental Rehabilitation Project
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Programs such as this should take a holistic approach to measuring and abating air pollution. Although substantial progress has been made, longer-term policy measures to address the ongoing air quality issue in Mongolia are still needed The increased concentrations of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide show shortcomings in the program’s overall achievements, along with the concentrations of small particulate matter which remain above World Health Organization’s guidelines, necessitating more policy actions.

Project Number: 53028-001
Project Name: Ulaanbaatar Air Quality Improvement
Program and Ulaanbaatar Air Quality Improvement
Program – Phase 2
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Publication of air quality should be institutionalized to provide a feedback loop to policy makers and to empower the public to assess overall progress. ADB’s participation in the longer-term framework for air pollution abatement will reinforce the feedback and will be an instrument to provide additional assistance that will ensure the continued air pollution reduction in Ulaanbaatar and other urban areas in Mongolia.

Project Number: 53028-001
Project Name: Ulaanbaatar Air Quality Improvement
Program and Ulaanbaatar Air Quality Improvement
Program – Phase 2
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To ensure the success of expenditure management at subnational government level, these entities need to become more dependent on locally sourced revenues over time. Rapidly increasing central transfers can make them more dependent to the national government and weaken their motivation to raise local revenues.

Project Number: 50168-001, 50168-002, 50168-003
Project Name: Fiscal and Public Expenditure Management Program
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Decentralization and devolution to subnational governments need to be undertaken with caution, especially where capacity is known to be limited. A sequential program is useful, where functions and resources are better devolved first to local governments that are fully staffed and capacitated, and later to others, following a program that improves institutional capacity to accept the new responsibilities.

Project Number: 50168-001, 50168-002, 50168-003
Project Name: Fiscal and Public Expenditure Management Program
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The MFF modality can allow DISCOMs to tailor the tranche subprojects according to the distribution networks' priorities and complement other rural development programs being implemented at the time. Most upgrade of 0.4 kV feeders to 11 kV feeders, about half the aerial bundle conductors and new connections, and a third of the meters were implemented under other ongoing programs.

Project Number: 43467-015
Project Name: Madhya Pradesh Energy Efficiency Improvement Investment Program - Tranche 1
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To ensure the formulation of a well-grounded design, a thorough preparatory assessment could be undertaken by including the political environment and the risk of corruption in a country. In cases where corruption is perceived as being high, support for better performance and greater accountability in public financial management systems plays a crucial role.

Project Number: 48458-001, 48458-003
Project Name: Expanding Private Participation in Infrastructure 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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No additional lessons

Project Number: 38411-023
Project Name: Orissa Integrated Irrigated Agriculture and Water Management Investment Program – Project 1
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ADB had gained experience in Pakistan’s municipal services sector and these were recorded in past PCRs and country assistance program evaluations. Except for the successful Punjab Community Water Supply and Sanitation Project, available PCRs rated ADB’s interventions less than successful, including the recent experience with the Megacity Development Project in the Sindh province (footnote 28). Lessons from these experiences could have been applied to the design of this MFF.

Project Number: 37220-023
Project Name: Sindh Cities Improvement Investment Program (Tranche 1)
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Changing performance targets and due dates midstream is not warranted.

Project Number: 37220-023
Project Name: Sindh Cities Improvement Investment Program (Tranche 1)
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Regarding results framework and methodology level lessons, this validation suggests that since one of the MFF outcomes was for better financial performance of the distribution companies, ADB should emphasize more on the monitoring of financial performance over the 5 or more years of project implementation. Improvement in the physical infrastructure of the power systems should go hand-in-hand with improvements in the financial soundness of these companies. Corrective measures to financial performance should be during implementation when ADB has the most leverage.

Project Number: 32298-063
Project Name: MFF-Madhya Pradesh Power Sector Investment Program (Tranche 5)
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The RRP outlined that one of the program outputs was the establishment of the policy and legal framework to enable the provision of sustainable and efficient water and sewerage services, including allowing for outsourcing of the management function to a private company. Examples of merged power and water utilities and private sector-run water utilities include the UNELCO Engie in Vanuatu and the American Samoa Power Authority (footnote 9). These types of viable utility options need to be considered during the appraisal of similar programs.

Project Number: 44031-013
Project Name: Water Sector Improvement Program
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No additional lessons

Project Number: 40061-013
Project Name: Java-Bali Electricity Distribution Performance Improvement Project
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