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Setting the road maintenance cost as a predetermined percentage of the civil works contract price or a fixed amount could eliminate contractors’ tendency to quote unrealistic maintenance prices.

Project Number: 38255-033
Project Name: Uttarakhand State-Road Investment Program (Subproject 2)
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Withholding parts of the retention money and performance bank guarantee until the end of the maintenance period could improve contractor performance in post-construction maintenance.

Project Number: 38255-033
Project Name: Uttarakhand State-Road Investment Program (Subproject 2)
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Project-specific design and monitoring frameworks (DMFs) are essential to evaluating the performance of each project/tranche in a multitranche financing facility (MFF) or investment program.

Project Number: 38255-033
Project Name: Uttarakhand State-Road Investment Program (Subproject 2)
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Project Number: 43063-013
Project Name: Madhya Pradesh State Roads Project III
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Develop, at the design stage, clear targets on the recipients of the project.

Project Number: 43158-013
Project Name: Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise Development Project
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The DMF needs indicators that measure the actual impact of the project rather than national or sectoral changes.

Project Number: 43158-013
Project Name: Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise Development Project
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Projects need to have robust systems for verifying results and for an MSME project, this would ideally include an end-of-project survey to independently measure impact.

Project Number: 43158-013
Project Name: Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise Development Project
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Project review missions should consistently follow-up on loan covenant compliance, specifically, the development and operationalization of the project performance monitoring system.

Project Number: 41127-013
Project Name: Bihar State Highways Project
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ADB should have waited for sufficient time before processing a follow-up loan for the executing agency to fully develop its capacity in project implementation since this was the first loan to Bihar.

Project Number: 41127-013
Project Name: Bihar State Highways Project
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The design of transmission and distribution projects at appraisal are usually preliminary and only finalized at the start of implementation; the multitranche financing facility (MFF) modality provides the flexibility needed to adjust the scope and latitude of these projects, if the program is built on a long-term plan by the implementing agency

Project Number: 32298-013, 32298-073
Project Name: Madhya Pradesh Power Sector Investment Program (Tranche 6 and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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Utilities need to understand the impact of loss reduction on their finances, to take appropriate investment decisions, particularly when differentiating between technical and commercial losses.

Project Number: 32298-013, 32298-073
Project Name: Madhya Pradesh Power Sector Investment Program (Tranche 6 and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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Considering the large economic and financial benefits of loss-reduction projects in distribution grids, it is necessary to carry out a more thorough assessment than what is usually provided in completion reports.

Project Number: 32298-013, 32298-073
Project Name: Madhya Pradesh Power Sector Investment Program (Tranche 6 and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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A methodology should be developed and incorporated in ADB documents, when measuring economic impacts of multi-project programs.

Project Number: 32298-013, 32298-073
Project Name: Madhya Pradesh Power Sector Investment Program (Tranche 6 and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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The practice of using a weighted average EIRR, which is inaccurate as economic benefits are not directly proportional to investment volumes and to the other metrics used for weighting due to the interrelated benefits among projects, should be discontinued in ex-ante and ex-post evaluations of programs supported by MFF.

Project Number: 32298-013, 32298-073
Project Name: Madhya Pradesh Power Sector Investment Program (Tranche 6 and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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It is difficult to establish accurate cost estimates due to the long MFF implementation timelines and the value of flexibility that is inherent in the MFF modality.

Project Number: 32298-013, 32298-073
Project Name: Madhya Pradesh Power Sector Investment Program (Tranche 6 and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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