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To ensure the success of expenditure management at subnational government level, these entities need to become more dependent on locally sourced revenues over time. Rapidly increasing central transfers can make them more dependent to the national government and weaken their motivation to raise local revenues.

Project Number: 50168-001, 50168-002, 50168-003
Project Name: Fiscal and Public Expenditure Management Program
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Lesson
Decentralization and devolution to subnational governments need to be undertaken with caution, especially where capacity is known to be limited. A sequential program is useful, where functions and resources are better devolved first to local governments that are fully staffed and capacitated, and later to others, following a program that improves institutional capacity to accept the new responsibilities.

Project Number: 50168-001, 50168-002, 50168-003
Project Name: Fiscal and Public Expenditure Management Program
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Lesson
The PCR noted delays with the receipt of cash assistance for livelihood activities, death compensation, and housing assistance. Delays were due to the requirement for beneficiaries to provide official documents that took time to verify. In future disaster responses, procedures should be simplified and could perhaps be managed by civil society organizations, and bureaucracy should be minimized.

Project Number: 52324-001
Project Name: Emergency Assistance for Recovery and
Rehabilitation from Recent Disasters
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Attention needs to be given to the health and comfort standards of the relocation housing in terms of indoor air circulation and lighting, among others.

Project Number: 52324-001
Project Name: Emergency Assistance for Recovery and
Rehabilitation from Recent Disasters
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Lesson
Relocation housing sites should be accessible to the affected families. Location of new housing should be as close to the affected homes as possible.

Project Number: 52324-001
Project Name: Emergency Assistance for Recovery and
Rehabilitation from Recent Disasters
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Lesson
Well-conceived and structured TA associated with the program addressed the obstacles presented by system inefficiencies and limited capacity. Survey data and other forms of monitoring can be subject to local manipulation by incumbents and unintended beneficiaries. A related problem is rent-seeking in local agencies and the government can similarly distort monitored data, and misdirect public transfer payments and other benefits.

Project Number: 40003-013
Project Name: Poverty Reduction and Millennium Development Goals Acceleration Program
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Lesson
The complication arose from the government’s decision, during SP2, to inject the other half of the anticipated policy output units into the subprogram, by extending it by another 5 months. This put considerable work and budget pressure on the project team. And that may have been a factor in the inability to fully achieve several output actions in time for this report.

Project Number: 40003-013
Project Name: Poverty Reduction and Millennium Development Goals Acceleration Program
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Lesson
The interim restructuring of the program, at the request of the government, lowered the total program cost to the government. It also put greater emphasis on the program’s design features than on embedding the program deeper within public institutions. This may have been fiscally expedient but will have long-term costs that are hard to measure now. The government may have employed the program’s national consultants after it decided to fund SP2 and SP3, but ADB is unlikely to receive information on the results.

Project Number: 40003-013
Project Name: Poverty Reduction and Millennium Development Goals Acceleration Program
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Better coordination with Australian Aid was an explicit part of the PRMAP from the beginning. Adjustments to ADB’s country strategy and the design of follow-on programs may be better informed if there is sharing of information during and after each intervention.

Project Number: 40003-013
Project Name: Poverty Reduction and Millennium Development Goals Acceleration Program
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No additional lessons

Project Number: 38264-013, 42208-013
Project Name: Second Local Government Finance and Governance Reform Program (Subprograms 1 and 2)
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No additional lessons

Project Number: 35144-012, 35144-013
Project Name: State Audit Reform Sector Development Program
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No additional lessons

Project Number: 35144-013
Project Name: State Audit Reform Sector Development Program
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