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Project Number: 42529-013, 42529-023
Project Name: Growth Recovery Support Program
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Special measures need to be taken with respect to timing, cost estimations, and availability of contractors in a difficult conflict environment. Lessons learned from the resettlement component needed to be included.

Project Number: 37136-012, 37136-013
Project Name: Regional Airports Rehabilitation Project (Phase 1)
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Careful consideration should be given as to whether a project is really qualified for processing under emergency support modalities. In this case, the time saved from rushed preparation was subsequently lost in delays and other problems in implementation.

Project Number: 37075-013
Project Name: Andkhoy–Qaisar Road Project
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Project management and monitoring during implementation, especially during the initial stages, is also important. This is because at these stages, more data and information on conditions become available and enable changes to be made to the design to mitigate unforeseen factors that may risk the outcome.

Project Number: 36673-013
Project Name: Emergency Infrastructure Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Project
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The primary lesson is that emergency support requires additional focus on planning and thorough preparation despite the usual time constraints. Given that conditions in such a situation are often uncertain and unreliable, project design needs to be robust to be able to deliver critical relief to the affected population.

Project Number: 36673-013
Project Name: Emergency Infrastructure Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Project
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The validation concurs with these issues and would also add that uncertainty remains regarding the Afghanistan private sector‘s overall ability to absorb credit even when available. Another uncertainty is AIB‘s ability to make up, through increased regular lending to private customers and investing in alternative assets overseas, for the inevitable loss of special situations of the sort (e.g. a sharp reduction in the US army deposits), which had provided AIB some measure of its financial success vis-à-vis very wide interest spreads gained by investing idle US Army cash balances in 12+%.

Project Number: 37903-014
Project Name: Equity Investment in Afghanistan International Bank
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