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Project Number: 32176-013
Project Name: Coral Reef Rehabilitation and Management Project Phase II
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On social safeguards, the project was hampered by difficulties in land acquisition, securing forestry permits, and soliciting project acceptance from affected people. The project lacked preparatory work on addressing social issues at the outset.

Project Number: 34100-013
Project Name: Renewable Energy Development
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ADB and the government should have evaluated the cost efficiency of renewable energy-based power generation in remote regions. Based on the total cost of each of the subprojects which included design, engineering, construction, project management, and social safeguards compliance), the average cost of 1 MW of power generation in 2013 is $2.7 million, considerably higher than diesel-based generation at $1 million per MW.

Project Number: 34100-013
Project Name: Renewable Energy Development
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At project implementation, Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) (State Electricity Company) should have assessed whether the engineering, procurement, construction modality was effective and appropriate for renewable energy projects. Experience from the project indicates that it may be more effective and efficient to procure engineering services and civil and electromechanical works separately.

Project Number: 34100-013
Project Name: Renewable Energy Development
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The project yielded the following insights for similar, future community-driven development projects: (i) Inclusive involvement of community members in decision making and implementation of infrastructure projects is needed to ensure ownership and transparency. (ii) Community facilitators and consultants must be well selected so that only qualified and committed personnel are deployed to support communities in the empowerment process and on technical matters.

Project Number: 38385-013
Project Name: Rural Infrastructure Support to the PNPM Mandiri Project II
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The feed-in tariff should apply to public and private power producers to boost renewable energy development and give it a bigger share of the energy mix in Indonesia. The project would have benefited from the feed-in tariff which provides better rate of return for the renewable energy power development.

Project Number: 34100-013
Project Name: Renewable Energy Development
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On project management and implementation, PLN's financial and management capacity needed to be strengthened and/or supported by qualified consultants and training. The project's design should have therefore included capacity assessment and capacity-building components to improve PLN's internal and project-related financial and management systems.

Project Number: 34100-013
Project Name: Renewable Energy Development
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A project performance monitoring system (PPMS) was not required, since an existing system was already in place at Directorate General of Highways. However, ADB did require the conduct of surveys and collection of data for specific performance indicators identified at appraisal, which should have been finalized during the early stage of project implementation.

Project Number: 34159-013
Project Name: Road Rehabilitation-2 Project
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The procurement process for consultancy services and civil works was too long in spite of approval by ADB to advance corresponding action. ADB and the executing agency should have agreed on the length of the procurement process, which was already set in the ADB procurement guidelines. The delay in core team consultant procurement led to national consultants being tapped to proceed with the project and avoid delays.

Project Number: 34159-013
Project Name: Road Rehabilitation-2 Project
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More in-depth involvement by the borrower, executing agency, and implementing agencies in the preparation of the project design is important. The cancellation during the implementation of two subcomponents, which were essential to project sustainability, seemed too late since resources have already been committed. Agreeing to the changes should have triggered the revision of the design and monitoring framework.

Project Number: 34159-013
Project Name: Road Rehabilitation-2 Project
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Indicators to measure the achievement of project outcome need to carefully consider the scope of all activities carried out under all outputs.

Project Number: 34152-013
Project Name: Community Water Services and Health Project
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Project management has significant roles in achieving project objectives. The weak project management and insufficient capacity of project stakeholders prevented the delivery of optimum project benefits.

Project Number: 34152-013
Project Name: Community Water Services and Health Project
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Covering a large number of remote villages spread over four provinces may not be an effective way to maximize the use of resources. The effectiveness of the investment in generating development impact, as well as project efficiency, would have improved in a focused geographic approach.

Project Number: 34152-013
Project Name: Community Water Services and Health Project
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More attention should be given to operation and maintenance (O&M) planning and management, including awareness of resource requirements for O&M measures and sound financial and reporting systems.

Project Number: 34152-013
Project Name: Community Water Services and Health Project
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Community facilitators and consultants must be qualified and committed; sufficient time should be allocated for community empowerment - ensuring that community members are sufficiently involved in prioritizing their needs, developing investment proposals, and making decisions.

Project Number: 34152-013
Project Name: Community Water Services and Health Project
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