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For interventions in a new country, it is important to assess the capacity of the government’s financial management system thoroughly before launching a project, especially when investing valuable grant resources.

Project Number: 45139-001
Project Name: Mid-Level Skills Training Project
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Comprehensive mid-course correction and timely revision to the design and monitoring framework are opportunities that should be seized to improve the measurement of the project’s achievements.

Project Number: 45139-001
Project Name: Mid-Level Skills Training Project
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Technical and vocational education and training is a complex subsector having multiple interfaces with development issues related to socioeconomic development, production technology, and public policy. ADB needs a sector road map to guide its operations, especially when investments interface with the private sector.

Project Number: 45139-001
Project Name: Mid-Level Skills Training Project
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A timely and appropriate change in scope and reallocation of grant (or loan) proceeds responding to actual project needs emerging from implementation can help utilize available grant (or loan) resources in a more targeted and efficient manner, facilitate the conduct of more activities, potentially deliver more outputs, and maintain the project's relevance and effectiveness.

Project Number: 44130-022
Project Name: District Capitals Water Supply Project
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Good due diligence at appraisal is important to prepare a realistic project schedule considering the institutional setup, internal review and approval procedures, existing capacity, and prior experience of the government and executing agency in implementing ADB and other development partners' projects. Formulating appropriate project design, identifying major risks, implementing adequate mitigation measures, and providing early implementation support are crucial in minimizing startup delays and facilitating the timely implementation progress of projects.

Project Number: 44130-022
Project Name: District Capitals Water Supply Project
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More robust modeling, taking into account climate factors, has to be undertaken at appraisal to have sound forecasts of road durability and deterioration.

Project Number: 43322-012
Project Name: Road Network Development Sector Project
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Traffic forecasts produced at appraisal that are not robust enough will affect the robustness of pavement designs and cause additional traffic to lead to premature degradation.

Project Number: 43322-012
Project Name: Road Network Development Sector Project
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It is desirable to undertake a long-term strategic plan in urban situations where there are widespread serious problems of water delivery to households and businesses.

Project Number: 38189-002
Project Name: Dili Urban Water Supply Sector Project
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An increasing block tariff system has two advantages: (a) supporting poorer households by reducing their water bills compared to a single average pricing policy; and (b) limiting high volume water use by the more affluent households, valuable in situations of limited water availability.

Project Number: 38189-002
Project Name: Dili Urban Water Supply Sector Project
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The adequacy and appropriateness of project design have to be tailored to the project’s ultimate objectives and complexities. The PCR provided weak justification of the relevance of the extension and the insufficiency of indicators.

Project Number: 39662-012, 39662-022
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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In a country where data is scarce, of relative poor quality, and thus hard to interpret, economic and social analysis and monitoring and evaluation of projects need to focus on individual subprojects rather than broad aggregations.

Project Number: 38618-012
Project Name: Road Sector Improvement Project
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ADB should consider a sector-wide approach rather than standalone maintenance contracts to make road investments sustainable. Timor-Leste needs a road sector maintenance program and this program must include an institutional set-up, a policy framework, programming, implementation capacity, and funding that are effective and adequate.

Project Number: 38618-012
Project Name: Road Sector Improvement Project
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By extending the benefits of national road development, ADB road sector projects will get more support and facilitate economic growth and poverty reduction more effectively. The coverage and quality of the maintenance that can be expected on project roads should be thoroughly assessed and spelled out upfront before future interventions in the country.

Project Number: 38618-012
Project Name: Road Sector Improvement Project
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