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Project Number: 33218-013
Project Name: Regional Development Project, Phase II— Environmental Infrastructure and Management
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Important that the project design correctly balance the envisaged outputs with the planned implementation time, the capacity of the executing and implementing agencies, and project resources to avoid overambitious outputs and outcomes. It is essential that implementing units are properly established at inception with competent staff who are knowledgeable in project implementation.

Project Number: 33217-013
Project Name: Employment Skills Training Project
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The adequacy and appropriateness of project design have to be tailored to the project’s ultimate objectives and complexities. The PCR provided weak justification of the relevance of the extension and the insufficiency of indicators.

Project Number: 39662-012, 39662-022
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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The project design did not adequately recognize the risk that the tariff would be set at levels below cost, hence, more stringent mitigation measures may be required in future port projects.

Project Number: 37265-013
Project Name: Domestic Maritime Transport Project
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A common currency unit should be used for economic and financial evaluations to avoid confusion.

Project Number: 37265-013
Project Name: Domestic Maritime Transport Project
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The incentive framework should have played a larger role in moving the economic agenda forward.

Project Number: 39658-013
Project Name: Economic Recovery Program
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The government and the Ministry of Energy and Environment (MEE) had implemented the Regional Development Project prior to this follow-up project. The government asked that project implementation support be provided to help implement Regional Development Project, Phase II - Environmental Infrastructure and Management. Although MEE was not fully conversant with ADB procedures at first, timely support from ADB and willingness of the MEE staff to adopt these practices helped implement the project. The Ministry of Finance and Treasury and the government fully supported the project.

Project Number: 33218-013
Project Name: Regional Development Project, Phase II - Environmental Infrastructure and Management
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Structuring and implementing a PPP project is complex, time-consuming, and requires significant resources and commitment by all parties involved. Knowing that the PPP concept was at an early development stage in the Maldives at the time of project inception and that few ministries had the capacity or resources for PPP project development, ADB and the executing agency should have identified appropriate focal points and obtained stronger management commitment from relevant line ministries to ensure efficient implementation.

Project Number: 41149-013
Project Name: Private Sector Development Project
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Instead of a cost-sharing scheme where development partner funds are depleted - or perhaps in addition to one - a scheme that used cost-sharing facility funds as equity-type capital could have been designed under which the cost-sharing facility would be repaid if and when the business benefiting from the funds became successful. Such an arrangement could also help align incentives between the business development service center and the MSMEs.

Project Number: 41149-013
Project Name: Private Sector Development Project
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While Enterprise Development Unit successfully served as a central project administrator in place of a dedicated project management unit (PMU), the roles, responsibilities, and reporting lines were not sufficiently clear from the outset. This caused some communication issues and processing delays throughout implementation. This issue has been addressed in the follow-up IMSMEDP, which makes use of a dedicated PMU.

Project Number: 41149-013
Project Name: Private Sector Development Project
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The line of credit facility could have been structured as a revolving facility to extend the benefits to MSMEs and improve sustainability. To leverage ADB funds, ADB could also have provided the line of credit facility under a fund management arrangement through which the BML could have administered the less expensive ADB funds and cofinanced at market rates. This would have resulted in competitive, all-in, blended costs to the borrowers.

Project Number: 41149-013
Project Name: Private Sector Development Project
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Better cooperation between ADB and the executing agency in the preparation of the design and monitoring framework, as well as a more detailed assessment of appropriate project impact, outcome, and output performance indicators, could have improved performance monitoring, project evaluation, and possibly the project's ratings. In addition, a more detailed analysis of imprest account ceilings could have limited delays in project implementation. The imprest account ceiling for the line of credit facility had to be raised, with some difficulty, during implementation.

Project Number: 41149-013
Project Name: Private Sector Development Project
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ADB policies for financial intermediation loans require that onlending rates for subborrowers should be market-based. For the PSDP, the Bank of Maldives line of credit facility onlending rates were in line with similar loan schemes in the Maldives targeting MSMEs from financial intermediation loans from other international financial institutions, and were in excess of Bank of Maldives' cost of funds.

Project Number: 41149-013
Project Name: Private Sector Development Project
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The project was originally designed primarily to reduce obstacles to the development of micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) through complementary initiatives. However, at the request of the government, a public-private partnership (PPP) output that was somewhat unrelated to MSMEs was also included. Although PPPs are an important aspect of private sector development, and MSMEs may participate in PPP projects, the activities in support of PPPs did not add much value to the overall project.

Project Number: 41149-013
Project Name: Private Sector Development Project
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Although the initiatives under the project were largely complementary, each project output required a distinctly different knowledge base and skill set in consulting services. However, output 2, suboutput 2 made use of three consulting packages, involving a consulting firm and two individual consultants. While the use of two individual consultants was deemed the most economical approach at the time of inception, their deliverables overlapped somewhat and could possibly have been consolidated in one contract package to improve overall project management.

Project Number: 41149-013
Project Name: Private Sector Development Project
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