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The flexibility shown by ADB in CDF policy and operations is making a value-addition in reducing the vulnerability of the Cook Islands to disasters and COVID-19 adverse impacts, a model that may be considered in other vulnerable DMCs.

Project Number: 50212-001, 50212-002, 50212-003
Project Name: Disaster Resilience Program (Phases 1 and 2)
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Linking gender to disaster risk financing will effectively mainstream gender into DRM, climate change, and overall national development policies and plans.

Project Number: 50212-001, 50212-002, 50212-003
Project Name: Disaster Resilience Program (Phases 1 and 2)
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A road map approach, which integrates intensive support for all the three triage groupings (liquidated, privatized, and retained and improved), agreed or urged in the 2013 IMF Extended Fund Facility and reiterated in 2019, and provides a much more targeted and politically sensitive communication strategy can help Pakistan gain headway in reforming its PSEs.

Project Number: 48065-003
Project Name: Public Sector Enterprises Reform Program (Subprogram 2)
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Incremental PSE governance reforms in Pakistan can be helpful, if layered on many others over a long period of time.

Project Number: 48065-003
Project Name: Public Sector Enterprises Reform Program (Subprogram 2)
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Supporting the most urgent and critical measures in reforming Pakistan's public sector enterprises (PSEs), agreed with government, may yield deeper results.

Project Number: 48065-003
Project Name: Public Sector Enterprises Reform Program (Subprogram 2)
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Sustainability can only be achieved if distribution companies (DISCOs) can avoid running losses and transferring their debt upstream, which contributes to the so-called “circular debt” problem.

Project Number: 38456-033
Project Name: Power Distribution Enhancement Investment Program (Tranche 2)
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Get the institutional framework right before scaling up.

Project Number: 37220-013, 37220-023, 37220-033
Project Name: Sindh Cities Improvement Investment Program (Tranche 2 and the Multitranche Financing Facility)
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It is important for succeeding tranche loans to have clear provisions of clear conditionality in the program design and lending agreements.

Project Number: 37220-013, 37220-023, 37220-033
Project Name: Sindh Cities Improvement Investment Program (Tranche 2 and the Multitranche Financing Facility)
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The ongoing delivery of benefits from an irrigation project, which aimed to improve upstream major assets, is dependent on adequate financing and implementation arrangements for operation and maintenance (O&M) of the downstream system of minor canals, distributaries and on-farm canals.

Project Number: 37231-013
Project Name: Punjab Irrigated Agriculture Investment Program (Tranche 3 and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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The ongoing delivery of benefits from an irrigation project improving upstream major assets such as barrages and main canals is dependent upon adequate financing and implementation arrangements for O&M of the downstream system of minor canals, distributaries and on-farm canals.

Project Number: 37231-033
Project Name: Punjab Irrigated Agriculture Investment Program–Tranche 2
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Ambitions of the National Highway Authority to undertake new projects demanding substantially more human and financial resources than its institutional capacity must be rationalized and tempered based on realistic expectations.

Project Number: 40075-023
Project Name: National Trade Corridor Highway Investment Program (Tranche 1)
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Close consultation with the government and readiness of the projects for financing are essential to avoid implementation delays.

Project Number: 37231-013
Project Name: Punjab Irrigated Agriculture Investment Program (Tranche 3 and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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For complex programs with a number of different components, activities addressing institutional reform may need to be ring-fenced from other program activities into their own separate project to prevent institutional reform not receiving the dedicated attention it requires.

Project Number: 37231-013
Project Name: Punjab Irrigated Agriculture Investment Program (Tranche 3 and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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Consideration should be given to protecting against currency fluctuations after loan effectiveness.

Project Number: 37231-013
Project Name: Punjab Irrigated Agriculture Investment Program (Tranche 3 and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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