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It was a challenge to administer the block grant mechanism for 50 BAWASDAs and Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat Daerah or Regional Parliament (DPRD) secretariats. All the BAWASDAs had to prepare institutional development plans (IDPs) for ADB approval in order to be eligible for grant funds. Subsequently, the BAWASDAs and the DPRD secretariats were required to coordinate with the MOHA-IG to ensure their budgets were included in MOHA-IG DIPA (the budget and the activities were prepared in accordance with the approved IDP). This process resulted in delays.

Project Number: 35144-013
Project Name: State Audit Reform Sector Development Program
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Too many project implementation units (PIUs) were operating, at both the central and regional level which implemented block grants.

Project Number: 35144-013
Project Name: State Audit Reform Sector Development Program
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Although the project met performance targets and indicators, substantive support was provided by the Investment Loan Monitoring Unit (ILMU) and the technical assistance (TA) consultants to help the Ministry of National Education- Inspectorate General (MONE-IG) implement the scholarship program. The support ranged from administrative to monitoring and evaluation, and quality assurance. As such, it was essential to have good coordination between BAPPENAS, as the executing agency, and the MONE-IG, as the implementing agency.

Project Number: 35144-013
Project Name: State Audit Reform Sector Development Program
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Each year, the project encountered a delay in budget allocation or Daftar Isian Penggunaan Anggaran (DIPA) release, which resulted in delays in implementing planned activities. This could have been avoided if the government had allowed multi-year budget earmarking, given that the project was funded by a multi-year loan. Since this has been identified as a broad systemic issue affecting other projects, this is also being addressed in the Country Portfolio Review Mission jointly held by ADB and Badan Perencanaan dan Pembangunan Nasional (National Development Planning Agency) or BAPPENAS.

Project Number: 35144-013
Project Name: State Audit Reform Sector Development Program
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Project implementation would be driven more speedily by champions or agents of change. As experienced in other projects, strong ownership and leadership are the key to a successful project. Through strong support from the BPK, all outputs and outcomes were achieved satisfactorily. The Badan Pemeriksa Keuangan (Supreme Audit Board) or BPK was transformed through institutional and regulatory reform, supported by capable auditors.

Project Number: 35144-013
Project Name: State Audit Reform Sector Development Program
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Covering a vast number of cities spread over almost the entire country may not be an effective way of maximizing the use of resources. A focused geographic approach would have provided flexibility for designing better social and economic benefits for the beneficiaries. The effectiveness of the investment in generating development impact, as well as project efficiency, would have been improved.

Project Number: 35143-013
Project Name: Neighborhood Upgrading and Shelter Sector Project
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Under the decentralization law, the national government no longer exercises administrative control over regional governments. Likewise, the provincial government does not have administrative control over district governments. Subsequently, local coordinating offices are under the administrative supervision of local governments, thus establishing appropriate city management and monitoring arrangements is essential to exercise administrative and technical supervision and provide support to community neighborhoods.

Project Number: 35143-013
Project Name: Neighborhood Upgrading and Shelter Sector Project
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The project produced some important insights for neighborhood upgrading interventions to be considered for future project designs.

Project Number: 35143-013
Project Name: Neighborhood Upgrading and Shelter Sector Project
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Specifications for the use of coal in asphalt plant. The two cases where low-quality asphalt pavement resulted from the use of inappropriate coal as fuel for the asphalt mixing plant burners indicate a need to develop specifications and exercise stringent supervision when coal is to be used as fuel.

Project Number: 34159-013
Project Name: Road Rehabilitation - 2 Project
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Premature road failure caused by overloaded vehicles. The government has not yet developed and implemented a more effective policy to control vehicle overloading. Local initiatives are more easily implemented and achieve significant results. Also, DGH is reviewing its policy of designing roads on the basis of legal axle load limits and considering other options such as designing roads on the basis of actual axle loads. For the near term, such initiatives should be strongly encouraged.

Project Number: 34159-013
Project Name: Road Rehabilitation - 2 Project
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Contingencies. The physical and price contingencies were inadequate, in particular given the extensive design changes required for a number of subprojects, the expected increase in the scope of rehabilitation works over time as the roads continue to deteriorate further, and the significant unit price adjustments resulting from the fuel price increases.

Project Number: 34159-013
Project Name: Road Rehabilitation - 2 Project
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Recruitment of supervision consultants. Delays in contract signing were a factor behind the decision of the consulting firms to replace the initially proposed experts, including the team leader. Although the replacements had to have the same qualifications as the people they replaced, consulting firms in such a situation generally propose less-qualified replacements.

Project Number: 34159-013
Project Name: Road Rehabilitation - 2 Project
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Adequacy of designs for works in difficult soil conditions. For the reconstruction of road sections in difficult terrain and soil conditions, the initial designs were not based on adequate geotechnical investigations. The design reviews therefore took longer, contributing to cost increases and delays in the start of the works.

Project Number: 34159-013
Project Name: Road Rehabilitation - 2 Project
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Project readiness. Advance procurement was used for the first time in the recruitment of consultants under a project with Directorate General of Highways (DGH), and consultant recruitment was not a cause of delays. The time for completing the procurement process for the civil works, however, was underestimated; the process took 1 year longer than planned. The lesson here is that the time required for completing the various steps has to be estimated much more carefully, on the basis of experience.

Project Number: 34159-013
Project Name: Road Rehabilitation - 2 Project
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Indonesia's fiscal stimulus package was successful because it included a mix of measures - including tax cuts, social spending, and labor-intensive small-scale infrastructure projects - and because effective and regular monitoring and reporting mechanisms were in place. The countercyclical support facility (CSF) loan would have been more timely if the facility itself was in place at the time the GFC (global financial crisis) began in the third quarter of 2008.

Project Number: 43317-013
Project Name: Countercyclical Support
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