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Project Number: 43110-013
Project Name: Republic of Fiji: Emergency Flood Recovery (Sector) Project
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ADB disaster response operations often involve executing and implementing agencies with capacity that is limited either inherently or due to the impacts of an emergency. This is particularly the case in countries such as Fiji where institutional capacity is often weak. The project inception report identified this as an issue facing the Ministry of Works, Transport, and Public Utilities (MWTPU), the main implementing agency for the project.

Project Number: 43110-013
Project Name: Emergency Flood Recovery (Sector) Project
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Project monitoring and reporting by the government were inadequate. ADB must ensure that mechanisms are in place for necessary data gathering and monitoring, and make sure that project covenants in this respect are complied with.

Project Number: 43110-013
Project Name: Emergency Flood Recovery (Sector) Project
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ADB and the executing and implementing agencies must ensure that adequately skilled and experienced consultants are fielded to provide the inputs required for effective project design and implementation. The report and recommendation of the president (RRP) explicitly noted that adequate consultant support would be particularly important for disbursements based on experience in emergency assistance projects in the Pacific when design, contracting, and supervision expertise had been insufficient.

Project Number: 43110-013
Project Name: Emergency Flood Recovery (Sector) Project
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One of the contracts issued that was declared misprocured by ADB because the bidder failed to meet minimum post-qualification financial threshold requirements, and which was then paid for by the executing agency, was completed successfully and within budget by the national company. That work was of high quality.

Project Number: 28261-023
Project Name: Third Road Upgrading (Sector) Project
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Lesson
The consultant supervision costs were the responsibility of the executing agency. As was previously noted, the delays in civil works resulted in increasing consultant supervision costs and the executing agency decided to terminate the consultants and recruit individual consultants. The consultants were paid by the executing agency and the change was made over ADB's objections.

Project Number: 28261-023
Project Name: Third Road Upgrading (Sector) Project
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Lesson
A lack of data and documentation was noted throughout project implementation. The project procurement-related audit noted this, and, as determined by the project completion review mission, data is unavailable within the executing agency. For example, there are no traffic counts after 2009, only two benefit monitoring evaluation reports were available, and the project completion report lacks important information. ADB needs to ensure during project implementation that data requested is provided by the executing agency.

Project Number: 28261-023
Project Name: Third Road Upgrading (Sector) Project
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Lesson
The lessons drawn by the PCR are valuable to ADB. ADB needs to seriously consider the socioeconomic and political environments in designing projects. Implementing a project in an unstable environment is not likely to yield positive outcomes. Proper timing is important in introducing a project especially when it entails a paradigm shift (i.e., from supply-led to demand driven). The experience with this project highlighted the need for greater coordination with other donors in addressing the country’s strategic development needs.

Project Number: 32541-013
Project Name: Fiji: Alternative Livelihoods Development Project
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