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Lesson
Although the use of quantitative and qualitative surveys were appropriate approaches to determine whether the project was meeting its performance targets, any subsequent summary report using the survey results could indicate whether there were any limitations to the survey techniques that influenced the findings.

Project Number: 38097-012
Project Name: Establishing Women and Children Service Centers
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The DMF indicators ould have been more closely tied to the primary goal of the CSF, which is to protect vulnerable groups in times of crisis when national budgets are under pressure.

Project Number: 46239-001
Project Name: Precautionary Financing Facility
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Gender and social inclusion impact indicators need appropriate prior assessment.

Project Number: 49210-001
Project Name: Social Welfare Support Program
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For future similar interventions, the use of the theory of change methodology, which starts by determining what outcomes are required, how success would be measured, and the activities required to achieve them, should be considered.

Project Number: 41373-012, 41373-013
Project Name: Public Financial Management for Rural Development Program
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The DMF is crucial in monitoring progress and assessing program accomplishments.

Project Number: 41373-012, 41373-013
Project Name: Public Financial Management for Rural Development Program
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It is a good practice in future cluster programs to update and improve the DMF as the program evolves.

Project Number: 38421-013, 38421-023, 38421-072
Project Name: Promoting Economic Diversification Program
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In designing the desired outputs that are linked to higher-level results, it is important to be consistent within particular operations and across operations that form the program.

Project Number: 36172-063
Project Name: Strengthening Public Management Program
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The DMF was reasonably well-designed and the performance indicators—with the exception of the initial program impact indicators—targets, and baseline data were precise and generally easily measurable. However, the PCR assessed the program against the DMF prepared for subprogram 3, which, like subprogram 2 had no indicators to measure impact, although these were included for subprogram 1.

Project Number: 48044-001, 48044-004, 48044-005
Project Name: Improving Domestic Resource Mobilization for Inclusive Growth Program
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Target dates for performance indicators should be sufficiently set long after the likely date of disbursement or policy action. This is to identify a plausible causal relationship between investments and actions taken by the program and a change in the performance indicators. This was not the case in the performance indicators under output 1.

Project Number: 49083-001
Project Name: Countercyclical Support
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Using performance indicators to assess project performance. Performance indicators (in addition to financial disbursements) should be reported throughout implementation to determine whether the project is on track to meet its intended outputs and outcomes.

Project Number: 44236-013
Project Name: Emergency Assistance for Recovery and Reconstruction
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Well-conceived and structured TA associated with the program addressed the obstacles presented by system inefficiencies and limited capacity. Survey data and other forms of monitoring can be subject to local manipulation by incumbents and unintended beneficiaries. A related problem is rent-seeking in local agencies and the government can similarly distort monitored data, and misdirect public transfer payments and other benefits.

Project Number: 40003-013
Project Name: Poverty Reduction and Millennium Development Goals Acceleration Program
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ADB’s policy on risk assessment and risk management should be reviewed to allow for a consistent approach within projects, programs, or even across subprograms. Risk assessment is often carried out by considering a matrix of likelihood and consequential severity to define the level of risk (individually and overall) before and after the controls or mitigation strategies are in place. The PCR template should also allow for discussion on risk to explicitly consider whether the risk mitigation strategies had been successful.

Project Number: 47318-001
Project Name: Strengthened Fiscal Sustainability Program
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