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Regular supervision with coaching is essential for maintaining and improving the quality of health services delivery. Especially in rural areas, supervision is also required to support often isolated local staff and helps to retain health-workers. Civil works successfully rehabilitated health facilities under the project, but regular supervision of public health facilities by health staff of the economic operators, as agreed in the MOAs, were not sufficiently sustained.

Project Number: 39033-022
Project Name: HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control in Rural Development Enclaves
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The PPMS should be developed and established prior to the start of project implementation. This would ensure that all implementation activities are effectively monitored and causes of delays and mitigating actions described clearly. Benefit monitoring and evaluation is essential to measuring project impact and outcome indicators so as to measure achievement. This should not be left to the executing or implementing agency and should be undertaken by qualified monitoring and evaluation specialists, including the collection of primary and secondary data.

Project Number: 40037-013
Project Name: Lae Port Development Project
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ADB resident mission should be more proactive in monitoring project implementation. It is contingent on the resident mission to assist the executing agency in identifying corrective measures and even use its technical resources to assist in resolving issues. The delay due to unresolved resettlement issues took too long to solve resulting in increased project cost. With local knowledge and experience, the resident mission would be in a good position to identify options in resolving such issues.

Project Number: 40037-013
Project Name: Lae Port Development Project
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The presence of ADB in such a consortium gives added credence to the project’s viability. Project-level lessons. The validation views that community-based routine rural road maintenance by women proved successful resulting in lower costs and improved work. The approach, using performance-based contracting, addressed the funding shortage to maintain rural roads and assisted poor women in rural communities. This approach to routine rural road maintenance should prove to be a model for similar activities in other provinces not only in PRC but also in other countries.

Project Number: 40626-013
Project Name: Yunnan Integrated Road Network Development Project
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To achieve poverty reduction and equity, the needs of disadvantaged groups must be identified not only by technically qualified experts, but also by the intended beneficiaries. Planning and budgeting for health services must be based on accurate and disaggregated data that are made available on time.

Project Number: 40019-013
Project Name: Health Care in the South Central Coast Region Project
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The $770 million appraisal estimate for 836 km of roads was overambitious given the 10-year time frame and the acknowledged low capacity of the NHA at appraisal. Project 1 design underestimated the security constraints to project preparation and implementation especially in Baluchistan which contained the largest proportion of project roads. Appropriate risks and assumptions were not adequately recognized by ADB until Project 2.

Project Number: 37559-023, 37559-033, 37559-043
Project Name: National Highway Development Sector Investment Program
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The institutional strengthening component was highly responsive to the operational deficiencies of the NHA. The design of this component was much weakened by NHA’s lack of commitment which caused delays and changes to the terms of reference and missed performance targets. Closer collaboration with the NHA prior to loan approval could have strengthened this component.

Project Number: 37559-023, 37559-033, 37559-043
Project Name: National Highway Development Sector Investment Program
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Land acquisition problems experienced by NHA. This required working with provincial governments which have legal responsibility for land matters and going through the difficult experiences in harmonizing national laws and ADB’s policy for social safeguards. An independent consultant engaged under the institutional strengthening project in 2007 identified and presented these issues in a written report.

Project Number: 37559-023, 37559-033, 37559-043
Project Name: National Highway Development Sector Investment Program
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Additional consideration should have been given to the provision of the following, which addresses problems encountered: engagement of institutional strengthening consulting expertise would have improved project design;

Project Number: 37697-013
Project Name: Urban Development Sector Project
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Enhanced microfinance expertise during the inception phase to ensure success of any small loan program;

Project Number: 37697-013
Project Name: Urban Development Sector Project
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Enhanced procurement support to assist executing agency and other agencies to improve preparation and management of the ICB bidding process;

Project Number: 37697-013
Project Name: Urban Development Sector Project
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More frequent supervision during implementation of gender-related activities would ensure compliance with GAP and monitoring of GAP indicators from the start of the project;

Project Number: 37697-013
Project Name: Urban Development Sector Project
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House connections for water supply and sanitation should be included into project design so that beneficiaries may accrue the full benefits of the built infrastructure; and

Project Number: 37697-013
Project Name: Urban Development Sector Project
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Close supervision by executing agency is required to ensure that safeguard policy statement’s requirements for LAR external monitoring and reporting are fully complied with.

Project Number: 37697-013
Project Name: Urban Development Sector Project
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No additional lessons

Project Number: 39293-013
Project Name: Education for Knowledge Society Project
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