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Lesson
Capacity building requires some time to take effect.

Project Number: 38558-013
Project Name: Water Resources Management Sector Development Program: Project Completion Report
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Policy or institutional changes are most likely to be adopted when there is a perceived need by the population or the institutions involved, rather than when considered theoretically appropriate by technical experts.

Project Number: 38558-013
Project Name: Water Resources Management Sector Development Program: Project Completion Report
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Continuous and close coordination, coupled with good working relationships between the ADB and executing agency (EA) project staff, are essential to the successful completion of projects.

Project Number: 38560-022
Project Name: Second Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project
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Safeguards documentation is crucial to the effective functioning of ADB’s accountability mechanism.

Project Number: 37269-013, 37269-023
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion: Rehabilitation of the Railway in Cambodia
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Appropriate contract packaging is an essential precondition for the smooth implementation of civil works.

Project Number: 37269-013, 37269-023
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion: Rehabilitation of the Railway in Cambodia
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Lesson
Inadequate due diligence can lead to design deficiencies that will make implementation difficult and necessitate changes in scope and detailed designs, with accompanying impacts on project duration, costs, and delivery of results.

Project Number: 37269-013, 37269-023
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion: Rehabilitation of the Railway in Cambodia
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Lesson
Clarity of all provisions in the loan and grant agreements and proactive assistance in consultant recruitment and other areas where executing and implementing agency (EA/IA) capacity is lacking will mitigate the risk of startup delays.

Project Number: 42361-013, 42361-014
Project Name: Medium-Voltage Sub-Transmission Expansion Sector Project and Additional Financing
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Implementation schedules, to be realistic, should be informed by EA/IA existing capacities and project-related experiences.

Project Number: 42361-013, 42361-014
Project Name: Medium-Voltage Sub-Transmission Expansion Sector Project and Additional Financing
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Learning from projects that run into a host of challenges but end up satisfactorily meeting all the safeguards requirements is particularly important to improve safeguards compliance in ADB-financed projects.

Project Number: 42361-013, 42361-014
Project Name: Medium-Voltage Sub-Transmission Expansion Sector Project and Additional Financing
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Lesson
Following wider lessons learned from ADB projects, recruitment of a single specialist to support implementation and monitoring of both gender and safeguards technical areas is insufficient.

Project Number: 41505-012, 41507-012, 41508-013
Project Name: Second Greater Mekong Subregion Regional Communicable Diseases Control Project
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In public health projects, it is important that the underlying results chain have adequate components to ensure the welfare of ultimate beneficiaries, and not just confined to serving the involved agencies and their stakeholders.

Project Number: 41505-012, 41507-012, 41508-013
Project Name: Second Greater Mekong Subregion Regional Communicable Diseases Control Project
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Lesson
A timely contract award for consulting services would ensure the mobilization of experts to complement the staff of the executing agency.

Project Number: 45303-001
Project Name: Rural Energy Project
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Focus is needed on activities that are less likely to be mainstreamed, like turnkey contracts and competitive procurement, progress monitoring and reporting, safeguard plans, and GAP implementation.

Project Number: 45303-001
Project Name: Rural Energy Project
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Closer coordination, capacity building, and hand-holding will improve project implementation when the executing agency is a first-time implementer of ADB-assisted project.

Project Number: 45303-001
Project Name: Rural Energy Project
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Changes in scope and results framework should be done as early as possible and not when the project is about to close; midterm reviews should be used to formalize the changes.

Project Number: 45303-001
Project Name: Rural Energy Project
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