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Project Number: 32239-013
Project Name: Urban and Environmental Improvement Project
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The inclusion of contractors from countries with existing international sanctions, such as Iran, could create difficulty in sourcing the required input items to be used under the project.

Project Number: 40043-013
Project Name: Afghanistan and Tajikistan: Regional Power Transmission Interconnection Project
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Project Number: 36611-013
Project Name: Skills for Employment Project
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Proper legislation and project design can ensure social inclusion and easy access of women, socially disadvantaged groups, and minorities to national politics, civil service, and leadership in local infrastructure development and management.

Project Number: 40554-022, 40554-032
Project Name: Rural Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Sector Development Program
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Packaging of numerous small civil work contracts and consultants to be procured in a decentralized manner poses procurement risks and creates challenges for timely procurement and proper management of contractors and consultants.

Project Number: 40554-022, 40554-032
Project Name: Rural Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Sector Development Program
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Lack of project readiness leads to project implementation delays. Completing requisite preparatory works prior to project approval maximizes the possibility of timely project implementation by giving adequate attention to construction quality and sustainability of facilities. Proper provisioning and implementation of advance procurement and retroactive financing can also minimize implementation delays.

Project Number: 40554-022, 40554-032
Project Name: Rural Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Sector Development Program
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Funding is necessary but not in itself sufficient for improved decentralization and local governance. Strengthening of regulatory arrangements and institutional capacity of central and local agencies for technical, procurement, financial, and safeguards management can play important roles in improving the quality of project implementation and achieving intended objectives.

Project Number: 40554-022, 40554-032
Project Name: Rural Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Sector Development Program
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Reforms with broad-based consultations reflecting country needs and context have better chances to succeed. Much of the program's success can be attributed to participation and ownership of stakeholders during formulation and implementation of the policy reforms, as well as to alignment of the policies with the prevailing political and economic situation.

Project Number: 40554-022, 40554-032
Project Name: Rural Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Sector Development Program
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Sequencing of reforms is crucial to achieve intended outcomes that call for a long-term partnership. For example, institutionalizing citizen engagement in local governance and instituting accountability measures before providing increased funding to local bodies reduce fiduciary risks and improve the likelihood that funds will be used properly. _x005F_x000D__x005F_x000D_Regular review of existing policies and guidelines is important to assess their effectiveness and relevance in a given context, and a one-size-fits-all approach in policies and guidelines fails to achieve intended outcomes.

Project Number: 36172-042
Project Name: Governance Support Program (Subprogram I)
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Although the economic and financial benefits of the project were substantial for Afghanistan, they would have been greater if investment in distribution had been undertaken in a timely manner to take advantage of the capacity to import electricity through the project transmission line. The transmission line is currently used at less than full capacity - about 200 MW. It is possible to energize it to transmit up to 600 MW of electricity.

Project Number: 40043-013
Project Name: Regional Power Transmission Interconnection Project (Afghanistan and Tajikistan)
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Financial management assessments undertaken at appraisal need to fully assess the potential for executing agencies to provide the level of funding proposed in the project financing plan to avoid cancelation of project activities that may negatively affect project viability and sustainability.

Project Number: 40043-013
Project Name: Regional Power Transmission Interconnection Project (Afghanistan and Tajikistan)
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The Afghanistan component of the project demonstrated that importing relatively inexpensive electricity from Tajikistan, and elsewhere if available, can result in enormous economic benefits to Afghanistan and financial benefits to Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (Afghanistan Power Utility). It would be prudent for the Government of Afghanistan and ADB to pursue further investments in the power sector to take advantage of surplus electricity in neighboring countries.

Project Number: 40043-013
Project Name: Regional Power Transmission Interconnection Project (Afghanistan and Tajikistan)
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In conflict-affected economies, it may be more appropriate to focus reforms on (i) rebuilding capacity, (ii) institutionalizing the process of conducting sustainable reforms based on transparency and participation, and (iii) propagating good public governance principles that are likely to be more enduring.

Project Number: 37393-032, 37393-042
Project Name: Private Sector and Financial Market Development Program
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The approach should be supported by an agreed road map, matched closely with available institutional capacities, with enough flexibility for continuing review and corrective actions, and supported by required technical assistance, until such time that the country exhibits maturity of institutions, strong internal capacity, and political and economic stability.

Project Number: 37393-032, 37393-042
Project Name: Private Sector and Financial Market Development Program
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Regarding program design in small, transition economies, it may be more prudent to take a gradual approach to private sector and financial market development, taking smaller slices of the development pie (financed with single-tranche loans) within a short time horizon.

Project Number: 37393-032, 37393-042
Project Name: Private Sector and Financial Market Development Program
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