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Lesson
A good project performance monitoring system is essential to avoid ad hoc or delayed decisions. Weekly contractor review meetings, a practice introduced by the Urban Development Department (UDD), can help get past implementation hurdles in a timely manner.

Project Number: 29120-013
Project Name: Rajasthan Urban Infrastructure Development Project
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Providing awards and incentives to contractors for quality and timely delivery, as done by the UDD, helps foster a spirit of competition and better performance.

Project Number: 29120-013
Project Name: Rajasthan Urban Infrastructure Development Project
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No new lessons

Project Number: 36318-013, 36318-023
Project Name: Assam Power Sector Development Program
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(No section on lessons provided in the report.)

Project Number: 23241-013
Project Name: Mumbai and Chennai Ports Project
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Lesson
The project was the first of its kind to use an ADB loan to implement a rural roads program in India. The project helped the states identify gaps in various program implementation activities. Some of these lessons learned are listed as in the following paragraphs.

Project Number: 36320-013
Project Name: Rural Roads Sector I Project
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Lesson
Stakeholder consultations. Consultations with landowners and stakeholders should be held and Memoranda of Understanding signed prior to award of contract and physical implementation. During the contract for the rehabilitation of coastal infrastructure, it was only discovered that one of the proposed wharfs was located on customary land after the contract was awarded. The timely completion of the contract was therefore at risk, although the situation was eventually resolved.

Project Number: 41105-012
Project Name: Emergency Assistance Project
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Preparing feasibility studies for emergency projects. An accelerated approach to preparing feasibility studies and selecting subprojects could be developed for future emergency projects. The process to identify, define, and prioritize the long list of subprojects, prepare and review full feasibility studies, prepare engineering designs, and bid the civil works was time-consuming and prevented early commencement of physical implementation.

Project Number: 41105-012
Project Name: Emergency Assistance Project
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Implementation issues. The long front-end implementation delays from the project serve as a major lesson. The expectations in implementing the project under an emergency modality over 18 months as a sector project over remotely located subproject sites, given the low absorptive capacity of Ministry of Infrastructure Development (MID), may have been unrealistic. For remote subprojects, higher mobilization and demobilization costs should be factored into cost estimates.

Project Number: 41105-012
Project Name: Emergency Assistance Project
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No new lessons

Project Number: 34513-013
Project Name: Post-Conflict Emergency Rehabilitation Project
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Lesson
Technical cooperation has required the use of best-practice systems and highly experienced professional staff from more developed countries. The development of regional expertise will take many years and require additional resources, if Pacific developing member countries (DMCs) expect to localize these positions. This environment requires flexibility in PASO staffing and structure to enable adjustments.

Project Number: 37449-013
Project Name: Establishment of the Pacific Aviation Safety Office Project (Pacific Region)
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Lesson
The project is unique among ADB interventions in the Pacific. It involved setting up a regional organization from scratch, using a regional loan guaranteed by four Pacific Aviation Safety Office (PASO) members. While the concept was innovative, the first lesson is that a regional project can raise a variety of new issues. Inception was delayed by lengthy procedures for parliamentary approval of two of the guarantees. As of 2011, there is a risk that the organization could eventually fail unless a secure funding basis can be established in the near future.

Project Number: 37449-013
Project Name: Establishment of the Pacific Aviation Safety Office Project (Pacific Region)
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Lesson
Institutional lessons arise from the need for cooperation on the part of governments, airlines, and international agencies in reforming and harmonizing the regulatory and legislative environment. ICAO has already recognized PASO as a legitimate international organization and will exercise quality control through the regular Universal Safety Oversight Audit Program and Universal Security Audit Program in each country. Governments need to ensure continuing cooperation between aviation ministries and other ministries responsible for drafting and enacting legislation and for providing finance.

Project Number: 37449-013
Project Name: Establishment of the Pacific Aviation Safety Office Project (Pacific Region)
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The concept of regional cooperation in technically demanding sectors is sound. The project concept of developing the coordinated provision of technical services to small and poorly resourced states has been proven. The project has helped develop similar regional activities in Asia and Africa by demonstrating feasibility to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and other international organizations.

Project Number: 37449-013
Project Name: Establishment of the Pacific Aviation Safety Office Project (Pacific Region)
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The introduction of new aviation systems into regional and national organizations needs to be subjected to in-depth systems analysis to ensure that the systems are appropriate to the environment. Also, it is necessary to provide sufficient, continued capacity development and training to retain the use of the system and improve it.

Project Number: 37449-013
Project Name: Establishment of the Pacific Aviation Safety Office Project (Pacific Region)
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Strong management and strategic thinking are prerequisites for establishing a sound and viable institution. The early management of PASO was weak. More support was needed to help it put necessary systems in place earlier in the project period. Some member states expressed the need to further improve financial management in terms of adequacy and transparency. The PASO council has the potential to provide needed support through its finance and technical committees but has not yet fully leveraged those capabilities.

Project Number: 37449-013
Project Name: Establishment of the Pacific Aviation Safety Office Project (Pacific Region)
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