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Considering there were some shortfalls in the road subproject detailed design work (such as drainage and ditch cover, sidewalk, and traffic safety provision), Municipal Development Fund (MDF) technical staff, local consultants and contractors need training on technology and workmanship in order to reach international standards. MDF and ADB need to ensure timely recruitment of construction supervision.

Project Number: 43171-013
Project Name: Municipal Services Development Project - Phase 2
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Proactive consultation with municipal governments by the Municipal Development Fund to ensure prompt selection of subprojects created a momentum that was maintained during project implementation and contributed to completion of physical works ahead of schedule.

Project Number: 43171-013
Project Name: Municipal Services Development Project - Phase 2
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The management information system proved to be an efficient means to provide all project information and data and helped Municipal Development Fund monitor implementation of the project in a timely manner. The same system should be used other projects.

Project Number: 43171-013
Project Name: Municipal Services Development Project - Phase 2
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Issues regarding legal and/or technical aspects of operation and maintenance (O&M) planning and funding, measures for cost recovery, tariff collection, and the metering system should be properly studied by consultants to mitigate the risk associated with inadequate O&M of project water supply system facilities.

Project Number: 43171-013
Project Name: Municipal Services Development Project - Phase 2
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No additional lessons

Project Number: 42529-013, 42529-023
Project Name: Growth Recovery Support Program
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No new lessons

Project Number: 42477-013
Project Name: Emergency Assistance for Post-Conflict Recovery
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Loan size determination. The projected budgetary financing requirement provides the rational for determining the loan size for budget support attached to a policy reform agenda, and it rests on unfunded fiscal �adjustment� costs of reform, including both recurrent and capital expenditures.

Project Number: 43496-013
Project Name: Social Services Delivery Program
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Socially responsible budget. Rapid disbursements into a budget that is socially responsible and sound in macroeconomic terms provide an efficient channel for supporting sustainable and inclusive public spending, including social sector financing.

Project Number: 43496-013
Project Name: Social Services Delivery Program
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Lending Modality: The crisis in Georgia, triggered largely by exogenous shocks, has underscored the need for a suitable modality that will enable ADB to provide quick support. While ADB has a program lending policy, there is no special modality for a financial crisis response operation for Asian Development Fund countries. The special program loan in the program lending policy is limited to ordinary capital resources countries (OCR). ADB's Countercyclical Support Facility (CSF) helped disburse anti-crisis support quickly to OCR eligible countries.

Project Number: 42529-013, 42529-023
Project Name: Growth Recovery Support Program
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Lesson
Socially responsible budget. Rapid disbursements into a budget that is socially responsible and sound in macroeconomic terms provide an efficient channel for supporting public spending, including social, infrastructure, and countercyclical stimulus.

Project Number: 42529-013, 42529-023
Project Name: Growth Recovery Support Program
Report Date:
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Monitoring and evaluation framework. The overall success of the EAPCR could have been greater had the DMF been better designed. The impact statement could have been closer to the outcome, and assumptions about investor and consumer confidence should have been more realistic. The impact statement could have focused on maintaining sustainable and inclusive public sector spending rather than to restore the Georgian economy to the pre-war trajectory of growth and social development.

Project Number: 42477-013
Project Name: Emergency Assistance for Post-Conflict Recovery
Report Date:
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Lending Modality: Having an appropriate modality is critical. ADB's Disaster and Emergency Assistance Policy together with Achieving Development Effectiveness in Weakly Performing Countries provided a ready framework for Emergency Assistance for Post-Conflict Recovery (EAPCR).

Project Number: 42477-013
Project Name: Emergency Assistance for Post-Conflict Recovery
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Monitoring and evaluation framework. The overall success of the program could have been greater had the design and monitoring framework (DMF) been better designed. The impact statement could have been closer to the outcome and assumptions about investor and consumer confidence more realistic. The impact statement could have focused on maintaining sustainable and inclusive public sector spending rather than to restore the Georgian economy to the pre-war trajectory of growth and social development.

Project Number: 42529-013, 42529-023
Project Name: Growth Recovery Support Program
Report Date:
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ADB business procedures. While program preparation was shorter than for typical program grants and loans, streamlined and abbreviated business procedures for processing crisis response programs could allow the response to be more timely.

Project Number: 42529-013, 42529-023
Project Name: Growth Recovery Support Program
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