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Implementation of agreed measures to mitigate the risks associated with foreign currency funding is critically important, particularly for financial intermediation loans that will be sub-lent in local currencies.

Project Number: 44060-025
Project Name: Small and Medium Enterprise Investment Program - Tranche 3 and Multitranche Financing Facility
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Gender targets need to be clarified with PFIs during project processing and their attainment strengthened through direct implementation support, better communication, and capacity building.

Project Number: 44060-025
Project Name: Small and Medium Enterprise Investment Program - Tranche 3 and Multitranche Financing Facility
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Having a simple environmental and social management system (ESMS) and an environmental staff in place in F1 financial intermediation loans will make implementation more efficient.

Project Number: 44060-025
Project Name: Small and Medium Enterprise Investment Program - Tranche 3 and Multitranche Financing Facility
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Careful examination of absorptive capacity is vital to ensuring that ADB loans are fully utilized and therefore are as beneficial as possible.

Project Number: 44060-025
Project Name: Small and Medium Enterprise Investment Program - Tranche 3 and Multitranche Financing Facility
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Aside from loan capitalization, incentives need to be developed to encourage commercial banks to lend more to small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

Project Number: 44060-025
Project Name: Small and Medium Enterprise Investment Program - Tranche 3 and Multitranche Financing Facility
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The MFF is a useful modality for providing the substantial financing required for infrastructure through successive tranches, but frequent policy dialogue between ADB and the executing agency would support the strategic long-term requirements of the sector. Implementation of the program demonstrated the flexibility and effectiveness of the MFF modality, for example when an additional tranche was approved to cover a section of the corridor that was originally not envisioned for ADB finance.

Project Number: 41121-023, 41121-033, 41121-043, 41121-053, 45150-001
Project Name: CAREC Transport Corridor 1 (Zhambyl Oblast Section) [Western Europe–Western People’s Republic of China International Transit Corridor] Investment Program and Taraz Bypass Project (Kazakhstan)
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Well-designed road facilities and the systematic monitoring and collection of the traffic accident and volume data are critical for transport policy and for safe and sustainable transport over the long term. Road investments alone cannot ensure that sustainability objectives are achieved; complementary measures are needed to offset the adverse impacts of infrastructure provision, but to support this, traffic accident and count data need to be accurately collected and monitored.

Project Number: 41121-023, 41121-033, 41121-043, 41121-053, 45150-001
Project Name: CAREC Transport Corridor 1 (Zhambyl Oblast Section) [Western Europe–Western People’s Republic of China International Transit Corridor] Investment Program and Taraz Bypass Project (Kazakhstan)
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Innovative technologies need to be carefully assessed and monitored to determine their efficacy and sustainability. As new technologies are made available through various projects, close monitoring of their application and performance and as well as best practices should be incorporated so they can contribute to the success of the program and projects. Accumulation of this knowledge and its proper dissemination within ADB will ensure that it can be applied to other projects in different locations.

Project Number: 41121-023, 41121-033, 41121-043, 41121-053, 45150-001
Project Name: CAREC Transport Corridor 1 (Zhambyl Oblast Section) [Western Europe–Western People’s Republic of China International Transit Corridor] Investment Program and Taraz Bypass Project (Kazakhstan)
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Indicators that measure medium-term lending and sustainability could provide better measurements toward initiating a more sustainable access to SME medium-term lending.

Project Number: 44060-024
Project Name: Small and Medium Enterprise Investment Program (Tranche 2)
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Regulatory bottlenecks need to be appraised rigorously and continuous policy dialogue with relevant government agencies should have been undertaken by ADB.

Project Number: 44060-024
Project Name: Small and Medium Enterprise Investment Program (Tranche 2)
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Constraints to small and medium enterprise (SME) financing should have been fully identified at appraisal and addressed in the design.

Project Number: 44060-024
Project Name: Small and Medium Enterprise Investment Program (Tranche 2)
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ADB needs to develop better techniques for forecasting traffic because the use of country-wide aggregates to forecast traffic on specific roads often leads to gross over-estimation.

Project Number: 41121-023, 41121-033, 41121-043, 41121-053
Project Name: MFF-CAREC Corridor 1 (Zhambyl Oblast Section) Investment Program
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Holistically addressing supply-side constraints will foster the sustainability of ADB investments in small and medium enterprise (SME) development.

Project Number: 44060-024
Project Name: Small and Medium Enterprise Investment Program (Tranche 2)
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A well-defined design and monitoring framework (DMF) is crucial to assessing a project’s overall effectiveness.

Project Number: 44060-024
Project Name: Small and Medium Enterprise Investment Program (Tranche 2)
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Using commercial banks as sole channel for onlending could crowd out smaller SMEs.

Project Number: 44060-024
Project Name: Small and Medium Enterprise Investment Program (Tranche 2)
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