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More careful assessment of results of institutional capacity reviews during project processing could avoid major revision of project components dealing with institutional capacity.

Project Number: 41076-044
Project Name: Road Improvement and Institutional Development Project
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The absence of a project performance management system (PPMS) could create difficulties in providing basis for the estimation of a project’s economic benefits. Therefore, a well-functioning PPMS helps provide data for more accurate EIRR estimates and the development impacts of road projects.

Project Number: 41076-044
Project Name: Road Improvement and Institutional Development Project
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Flexible reallocation of loan proceeds to critical civil works can enhance project relevance and effectiveness. A minor change in scope was approved for the reallocation of loan proceeds from project administration savings and secondary consulting services to the civil works contract. The new allocation enabled additional works on the coastal boulevard impacted by the storm but kept the loan size within its original limit.

Project Number: 42414-044
Project Name: Sustainable Urban Transport Investment Program - Tranche 4
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Weaknesses in the design and monitoring framework (DMF) can lead to an inaccurate assessment of project achievements. The project DMF contained indicators that measured benefits that were not entirely attributable to the project, such as the number of tourist nights in Georgia rather than in the Batumi area. Some dimensions of the project’s outcome were omitted, such as the increased protection of coastal infrastructure assets. The reduction of storm-related damage should have been considered as part of project’s outcome performance indicators.

Project Number: 42414-044
Project Name: Sustainable Urban Transport Investment Program - Tranche 4
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Changes in government may require a new or additional round of capacity- and awareness-building. The national election in 2012 resulted in a change in the government and subsequent appointment of new directors and staff in the Municipal Development Fund of Georgia (MDF), the project executing and implementing agency. Therefore, additional time had to be devoted to build capacity and awareness with respect to the project.

Project Number: 42414-033
Project Name: Sustainable Urban Transport Investment Program - Tranche 2
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Overconservative cost estimation during the implementation of the multitranche financing facility (MFF) tranche projects may reduce the funding availability for other investments and result in low utilization of the approved MFF amount. Tranche 2’s actual total cost was $64.97 million, 60% of the budgeted amount, and ADB’s loan disbursement was only 61% of the committed amount.

Project Number: 42414-033
Project Name: Sustainable Urban Transport Investment Program - Tranche 2
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Project scope changes provide opportunities for correcting the weaknesses in the design and monitoring framework (DMF) that can result in an unreliable assessment of the project achievements. The outcome and outputs of the DMF were logical, and the stated risks and assumptions were relevant. However, there were weaknesses in the indicators used to measure the project’s achievements. Some of them were addressed through the DMF updates accompanying the changes in scope.

Project Number: 42414-033
Project Name: Sustainable Urban Transport Investment Program - Tranche 2
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Timely reassessment can be instrumental to project success. After the project was approved, a series of devastating storms caused severe damage in the project area. The timely engagement of a consulting firm to revise the project design helped avoid project delays. Project interventions were revised based on the additional rehabilitation needs and the new evidence about potential impacts of storms on the coastline.

Project Number: 42414-044
Project Name: Sustainable Urban Transport Investment Program - Tranche 4
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The multifarious challenges to land acquisition and resettlement (LAR) in Georgia make it a must for resolutory measures to be implemented early enough.

Project Number: 41122-023
Project Name: Road Corridor Investment Program – Tranche 1
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Preparation of detailed designs and safeguard documents for succeeding tranche projects while earlier ones are still ongoing greatly enhances project readiness for tranches.

Project Number: 41122-023
Project Name: Road Corridor Investment Program – Tranche 1
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The multifarious challenges to land acquisition and resettlement (LAR) in Georgia make it a must for resolutory measures to be implemented early enough.

Project Number: 41122-013, 41122-043
Project Name: Road Corridor Investment Program (MFF and Tranche 3)
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Including the preparation of detailed designs and safeguards documents in project processing will enhance the readiness of pipeline projects.

Project Number: 41122-013, 41122-043
Project Name: Road Corridor Investment Program (MFF and Tranche 3)
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Introduction of new technologies, particularly those involving more than a like-for-like replacement of the ones already in use, requires collaboration with experts and private suppliers throughout the design, testing, and repeated price discovery stages.

Project Number: 43207-013
Project Name: Market Transformation through Introduction of Energy-Efficient Electric Vehicles Project
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In addition to assessing the value chain and market conditions, the technical viability and suitability of the business model and deployment mechanism should be tested prior to the large-scale dissemination of new technologies.

Project Number: 43207-013
Project Name: Market Transformation through Introduction of Energy-Efficient Electric Vehicles Project
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A multitranche financing facility (MFF) that initially focuses on piloting, capacity building, behavioral and technology change management, and the establishment of a more robust financial intermediation mechanism may have been more appropriate for this project.

Project Number: 43207-013
Project Name: Market Transformation through Introduction of Energy-Efficient Electric Vehicles Project
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