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The state government should institutionalize road safety training and awareness among drivers and other road users, to help reduce traffic accidents. The project incorporated several road safety features. Although these helped reduce fatal accidents, there is scope to do more to improve road safety. Common causes of accidents on good roads are negligent driving behavior, neglect of traffic rules, excessive speeding, and/or lack of road safety awareness among road users. These problems are further aggravated in mixed traffic conditions.

Project Number: 43574-025
Project Name: Uttar Pradesh Major District Roads Improvement Project
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Complete topographic data are necessary for the proper delineation of subprojects and the preparation of detailed engineering designs (DEDs). Despite the generally thorough preparation of the project, the absence of some basic topographic data made it difficult to properly delineate each subproject and to undertake DED of secondary and tertiary canals.

Project Number: 44328-013
Project Name: Uplands Irrigation and Water Resources Management Sector Project
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Complex projects, with an intention to have innovative features, including private sector participation, are better designed and implemented if there is a clear government sector plan that is fully supported both at the national and provincial levels. The lack of a clear sector plan in this case resulted in changes in government priorities and decision (i.e., from multimodal to rail-to-rail transshipment, from private operator to state-owned entity).

Project Number: 41192-013
Project Name: Regional Logistics Development Project
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Strong technical support and advice from ADB provides value addition to infrastructure projects, particularly for countries where institutional capacity is weak. Support includes the conduct of diagnostic work to assess the capacity of the sector and the institution and determine the risks and discuss the needed mitigation plan. The project was approved during the time when reorganization in the sector was underway. Thus, both the government and the ADB could have built on the momentum to fully take on its first multimodal transport investment.

Project Number: 41192-013
Project Name: Regional Logistics Development Project
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At the sector level, a conducive policy, legal, and institutional environment for PPP facilitates could enhance PSP in infrastructure services. PSP is facilitated when there are (i) a suitable policy and strategy for PPP, (ii) an established and professionally managed PPP Office that facilitates PPP processes, and

Project Number: 42180-013
Project Name: Second Public–Private Infrastructure Development Facility
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Advance actions are important and effective in mitigating the risk of startup and implementation delays. As part of advance procurement, POWERGRID awarded the largest contract package under this project before loan effectiveness and the originally envisaged major contracts immediately after the loan became effective. It minimized land requirements by ensuring that the transmission lines mainly passed through government-owned land, wasteland, and agricultural and grazing lands and arranged for the timely issuance of forest clearances.

Project Number: 44426-014
Project Name: National Grid Improvement Project
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It is critical for executing agencies to enhance their procurement capacity to ensure that all consulting services needed by a project are in place at the earliest possible time. The recruitment of a consulting firm for engineering design and drawing under this project spanned 15 months despite advance action. This significantly delayed project implementation, highlighting the need for MECCS to strengthen its procurement capacity and ensure the timely recruitment of consultants for its projects.

Project Number: 49168-001
Project Name: Improving School Dormitory Environment for Primary Students in Western Region Project
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Complex projects are better designed and implemented if there is a clear government sector plan that is fully supported both at the national and provincial levels. This was demonstrated by the country’s railway development plan and its financial allocations. The national government successfully reached out to private banks for cofinancing, and the provincial governments had a strong buy-in through their smooth implementation of land acquisition and resettlement plan.

Project Number: 35354-013
Project Name: Lanzhou–Chongqing
Railway Development Project
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A multisector approach, backed by an implementation arrangement that addresses the logistical challenge of working in remote areas, is suitable for improving livelihoods in the protected areas. The project location within a protected area required a design that considered the links between communities, tourism, ecological values, park management objectives, and compliance with national and ADB safeguard requirements for protected areas.

Project Number: 48216-001
Project Name: Integrated Livelihoods Improvement and Sustainable Tourism in Khuvsgul Lake National Park Project
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Spreading a large number of subprojects in a wide geographical area can reduce implementation efficiency and negatively affect subproject documentation and approval. A set of selection criteria guided this sector project’s investment size of approximately $0.5 million–$4.0 million per subproject. This resulted in many small subprojects that were geographically dispersed and generally failed to complement other infrastructure and hence synergize development impacts in the provinces. This was more evident in Phase 1 than in Phase 2.

Project Number: 37097-013
Project Name: Integrated Rural Development Sector Project in the Central Provinces
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Considering the construction costs and number of subprojects as tentative when there are significant technical unknowns that cannot be determined during the design stage will help mitigate the risks and facilitate the implementation of sector loan projects. Under this project’s preparatory technical assistance (TA), cost estimates were prepared under conditions of significant technical information gaps for all potential bridge sites.

Project Number: 43200-024
Project Name: Bridge Replacement for Improved Rural Access Sector Project
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Developing and implementing an asset maintenance plan, which remains important to break the wasteful build–neglect–rebuild cycle in the road transport sector of Papua New Guinea (PNG), is a pending business needing consistent follow up from development partners like ADB. Limited annual recurrent funding for operation and maintenance (O&M) was an underlying cause for developing this bridge replacement project along with capacity development for an asset management system.

Project Number: 43200-024
Project Name: Bridge Replacement for Improved Rural Access Sector Project
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Due diligence was deficient by failing to properly assess the political risk. Political stability and support for the achievement of objectives at all levels were explicit in the assumption statements of the design and monitoring framework.

Project Number: 38558-013
Project Name: Water Resources Management Sector Development Program: Project Completion Report
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Water supply and sewerage works contracts should include a reasonable O&M period until local organizations are properly trained and have sufficient budget to take over. House connection should adhere to an annual implementation and financing plan and be considered part of contract performance.

Project Number: 41116-023
Project Name: Jammu and Kashmir Urban Sector Development Investment Program (Project 1)
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Continued payment of O&M fees for water treatment plants and sewage treatment plants by municipal corporations to Public Health Engineering Department and the Urban Environmental Engineering Department is necessary for optimal maintenance and sustainability.

Project Number: 41116-023
Project Name: Jammu and Kashmir Urban Sector Development Investment Program (Project 1)
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