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Technical assistance support and policy advice, coordinated across development partners and provided in parallel with budget support programs, can help push energy reform agenda and build capacity.

Project Number: 54269-001
Project Name: Power Sector Reform Program (Subprogram 1)
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Energy efficiency requires multisector engagement and broader coordination with different sectors of the economy, such as agriculture and industry, and with local government.

Project Number: 54269-001
Project Name: Power Sector Reform Program (Subprogram 1)
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ADB may need to consider greater flexibility to allow an extension of the availability period of loans under the multitranche financing facility, where deemed appropriate. Because of various delays, the investment program's availability period was extended to 10 years and ended on 24 November 2020. Government requests to extend the availability beyond 2020 were declined by ADB.

Project Number: 41504-013, 41504-023, 41504-025
Project Name: Town Electrification Investment Program (Multitranche Financing Facility and Tranche 2)
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A simpler project and phased implementation need to be considered in future similar interventions to allow for sufficient time and attention to the design of subprojects and monitoring arrangements. The feasibility study for the Warangoi hydropower plant proposed short-term works (i.e., constructing a river training wall) and long-term works (i.e., further river retraining and diversion) which were contingent on hydraulic modeling. However, the modeling was not carried out despite water stream measurement being a loan covenant.

Project Number: 41504-013, 41504-023, 41504-025
Project Name: Town Electrification Investment Program (Multitranche Financing Facility and Tranche 2)
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Early engagement with provincial governments can contribute to identifying and avoiding delays due to land acquisition issues. Based on the experience of forcible entry by local communities into two HPP sites, new projects are emphasizing the role of social safeguards and early consultation of local populations. The positive experience of engaging with the provincial government, which contributed to the eventual delivery of the Divune HPP under tranche 1, can serve as a lesson for future projects.

Project Number: 41504-013, 41504-023, 41504-025
Project Name: Town Electrification Investment Program (Multitranche Financing Facility and Tranche 2)
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ADB and its consultants should review the historical performances and previous challenges of similar projects when preparing implementation schedules at approval. The Tranche 1 project included a highly optimistic implementation schedule. The Tranche 2 project was also overly optimistic, although to a lesser extent. Several challenges in procurement, land acquisition, and construction led to significant delays.

Project Number: 41504-013, 41504-023, 41504-025
Project Name: Town Electrification Investment Program (Multitranche Financing Facility and Tranche 2)
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Lesson
The implementation of large investment programs could be streamlined with the engagement of a loan-funded project management consultant from the beginning using advance procurement.

Project Number: 37192-023, 37192-033, 37192-043, 37192-044
Project Name: Power Transmission Enhancement Investment Program (Tranche 4 and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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A design and monitoring framework could become more useful and informative for assessment if it could include quantifiable indicators for capacity building when the requirement is identified during program appraisal.

Project Number: 37192-023, 37192-033, 37192-043, 37192-044
Project Name: Power Transmission Enhancement Investment Program (Tranche 4 and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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Close coordination is required to ensure high utilization of project-financed assets. The executing agency is responsible only for the construction, installation, and commissioning of transmission assets, as required by the National Dispatch Center, while the utilization of assets is the responsibility of the National Dispatch Center. Although the utilization of assets built under this project is satisfactory at present, the executing agency is not aware of the future planned level of utilization.

Project Number: 49214-002
Project Name: Solar Transmission Sector Project
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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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The multitranche financing facility (MFF) has the key advantage of providing predictable, long-term support to the priority investments of developing member countries. This MFF was a continuation of the long-term partnership between the Government of Assam and ADB. It helped modernize Assam’s entire energy sector by achieving 100% electrification of the state through investments worth billions of dollars of which the MFF was only a small part.

Project Number: 41614-013, 41614-036
Project Name: Assam Power Sector Enhancement Investment Program - Tranche 4 and Multitranche Financing Facility
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MFF tranche projects, when implemented concurrently, will greatly benefit from close loop knowledge support and strategy enhancement activities. The first three projects of this MFF were undertaken concurrently. Under each tranche, project status and performance were carefully assessed. Lessons were captured and fed into the enhancement of operational strategies. The close loop learning process benefited each tranche as well as enhanced the overall value addition of the MFF.

Project Number: 41614-013, 41614-036
Project Name: Assam Power Sector Enhancement Investment Program - Tranche 4 and Multitranche Financing Facility
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The restricted stance on public external borrowing led to deferral of MFF’s tranches 2 and 3 that was not present at the time of appraisal. If possible, the locations and routes of the project components for these tranches should be identified upfront and thoroughly analyzed for potential construction and safeguard impacts.

Project Number: 42401-015
Project Name: Power Distribution Enhancement Investment Program - Tranche 1
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In MFFs, subsequent tranches should be processed and implemented to overlap with tranche 1 to maintain implementation momentum and achieve maximum benefits. The program’s tranches 2 and 3 were supposed to be approved in November 2017 and March 2018, respectively.

Project Number: 42401-015
Project Name: Power Distribution Enhancement Investment Program - Tranche 1
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The project management units for subsequent tranches should be more proactive in using the project management and supervision consultant for the capacity development of the operational staff on new technology and standards.

Project Number: 42401-015
Project Name: Power Distribution Enhancement Investment Program - Tranche 1
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