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Implementing a project with a large number of road subprojects together, with a capacity building component, would strain implementing agency staff resources and divide their attention among components. The capacity building component should have preceded the loan through a technical assistance grant.

Project Number: 36320-013
Project Name: Rural Roads Sector I Project
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Subproject packaging and procurement. During procurement for civil works packages, the response to bid was low. Some packages received no response, even after the 7th call. Repackaging and rebidding for such contract packages slowed down the procurement process. In the meantime, the ADB procurement review revealed that a number of contractors had been awarded more than one contract and that most of them submitted bids for multiple contracts within a district.

Project Number: 37066-053
Project Name: Rural Roads Sector II Investment Program - Project 4
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Each new outbreak of disease confronts projects such as this one, as well as the implementing partners and global community, with a fresh challenge, because its early spread outpaces the gathering of scientific evidence needed to formulate containment policies. Each successive outbreak is followed by an initial opaque period characterized by a frustrating lack of scientific evidence on which to base policies and technical guidance.

Project Number: 39662-012
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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The rapid launch and accelerated implementation of the project made necessary by the threat that avian influenza would become a pandemic made it difficult to define verifiable indicators for a number of the outputs under the regional capacity building and regional coordination components. A mid-term review of the project would have facilitated a review and updating of the design and monitoring framework.

Project Number: 39662-012
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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The project supported the One Health concept, which emphasizes the links between animal health and human health and emerging animal and human diseases. One Health provided a platform for unprecedented integration of animal, human and ecosystem health issues to fight the threat of avian influenza. The systematic collaboration of technical agencies across disciplines, such as FAO (veterinarians) and WHO (medical doctors) and civil society organizations (community health workers) supported by the project has promoted this concept since the beginning of the project.

Project Number: 39662-012
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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ADB's high-level steering committee demonstrated ADB's institutional support, which enhanced coordination between development partners. The committee, comprising the heads of all regional departments and the Strategy and Policy Department and chaired by the director general of RSDD, provided prompt policy guidance and expedited decisions and actions. It also ensured that the needs of the countries were ascertained and that they had adequate access to project resources.

Project Number: 39662-012
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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ADB was able to use its convening power effectively because it had the necessary in-house technical expertise. Public health experts on ADB's staff with knowledge of emerging infectious diseases were involved in designing and implementing the project. This in-house expertise made the dialogue with the technical and regional agencies to strengthen regional collaboration within and across the animal health and human health sectors possible.

Project Number: 39662-012
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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No new lessons.

Project Number: 34263-013
Project Name: Madhya Pradesh State Roads Sector Development Program
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No new lessons.

Project Number: 23241
Project Name: Mumbai and Chennai Ports Project
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Cautionary note on the effectiveness and efficiency of project designs that attempt to combine program loans to promote PPP environment and capital markets development with project finance facilities to invest in specific projects, particularly when they involve wholesale loans to financial institution intermediaries.

Project Number: 34262-013
Project Name: Private Sector Infrastructure Facility at State Level Project
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No new lessons.

Project Number: 29120-013
Project Name: Rajasthan Urban Infrastructure Development Project
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Lesson
The active involvement of state government officials is a must for institutionalization of fiscal reforms. The commitment depends not only on the macroeconomic situation but also on the external and internal push for reform, preferably expressed in fiscal responsibility legislation, government's tenure in terms of the electoral cycle, and on the need to maintain social cohesion. Sufficient time and resources need to be devoted to cultivating dialogue and building consensus among all stakeholders in designing, formulating, and implementing long-term fiscal reforms.

Project Number: 36308-013, 36308-023
Project Name: Assam Governance and Public Resource Management Sector Development Program
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Lesson
A key consideration in achieving successful program implementation and sustainability in the long run is the development of competencies in government through capacity-building and training programs. Given the large capacity-building needs of Government of Assam in areas like the modernization of public finance management and information technology systems, the sector development program modality with a project loan component, rather than a regular piggybacked technical assistance, was an appropriate choice.

Project Number: 36308-013, 36308-023
Project Name: Assam Governance and Public Resource Management Sector Development Program
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Program design of this nature should focus on the core elements of the government's fiscal reform agenda, and avoid numerous policy actions, with overarching themes, until fiscal consolidation measures generate positive results. Overly ambitious and complex conditions could lead to delays in tranche releases and program completion, undermining the achievement of fiscal outcomes.

Project Number: 36308-013, 36308-023
Project Name: Assam Governance and Public Resource Management Sector Development Program
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The sequencing of multifaceted fiscal reforms is of paramount importance in achieving sustainable outcomes. Regulatory changes in the tax system are a necessary, but not sufficient condition for successful fiscal consolidation. Revenue administration also needs to be strengthened. Increases in revenues should be complemented with more politically challenging measures to enhance expenditure management; budget prioritization and resource allocation; public sector enterprise reform; debt management, and public accountability.

Project Number: 36308-013, 36308-023
Project Name: Assam Governance and Public Resource Management Sector Development Program
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