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Implementation arrangements involving multiple agencies need to be clearly worked out and agreed upon during project preparation

Project Number: 43566-013
Project Name: Inclusive Micro, Small, and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project
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Appropriate contract packaging supports the smooth implementation and timely completion of projects.

Project Number: 43566-013
Project Name: Inclusive Micro, Small, and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project
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As a development bank, identifying value addition to road infrastructure investments in the DMF will give more relevance to ADB interventions.

Project Number: 46145-001
Project Name: CAREC Corridor 3 (Shymkent–Tashkent Section) Road Improvement Project
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Loan size has to consider the absorptive capacity of the borrower.

Project Number: 43566-013
Project Name: Inclusive Micro, Small, and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project
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Collaborating with other development partners to include institutional support is a good strategy, to ensure that huge cross-border transport investments can be funded and such investments are sustainable.

Project Number: 46145-001
Project Name: CAREC Corridor 3 (Shymkent–Tashkent Section) Road Improvement Project
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ADB needs to develop better techniques for forecasting traffic because the use of country-wide aggregates to forecast traffic on specific roads often leads to gross over-estimation.

Project Number: 41121-023, 41121-033, 41121-043, 41121-053
Project Name: MFF-CAREC Corridor 1 (Zhambyl Oblast Section) Investment Program
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No additional lessons

Project Number: 43439-023
Project Name: Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 2 (Mangystau Oblast Sections) Investment Program, Project 1
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Using commercial banks as sole channel for onlending could crowd out smaller SMEs.

Project Number: 44060-024
Project Name: Small and Medium Enterprise Investment Program (Tranche 2)
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Holistically addressing supply-side constraints will foster the sustainability of ADB investments in small and medium enterprise (SME) development.

Project Number: 44060-024
Project Name: Small and Medium Enterprise Investment Program (Tranche 2)
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A well-defined design and monitoring framework (DMF) is crucial to assessing a project’s overall effectiveness.

Project Number: 44060-024
Project Name: Small and Medium Enterprise Investment Program (Tranche 2)
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Target dates for performance indicators should be sufficiently set long after the likely date of disbursement or policy action. This is to identify a plausible causal relationship between investments and actions taken by the program and a change in the performance indicators. This was not the case in the performance indicators under output 1.

Project Number: 49083-001
Project Name: Countercyclical Support
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Project-level lesson: Assistance provided in response to a crisis should only include essential conditions for disbursement. ADB’s Project Administration Instructions stated that the use of conditions for withdrawal should be limited to the extent possible. In this program, four disparate conditions were included as conditions for disbursement without discussion or justification in the RRP.

Project Number: 49083-001
Project Name: Countercyclical Support
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Successful privatization of state-owned enterprises requires strong political commitment and government ownership. The new government failed to carry forward the privatization program articulated in the report and recommendation of the President. This underlines the need for such reforms to be based on broad stakeholder consultations, and the importance of a high degree of political consensus on the goals and process of the reform.

Project Number: 39658-013
Project Name: Economic Recovery Program
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Well designed and adequately resourced technical assistance is critical in helping governments with limited technical capacity deliver a complex set of reforms. This is demonstrated by the broadening of the tax base by implementing the goods and services tax. Collected revenue doubled during 2012–2016 with the help of sustained and targeted support from ADB starting in 2010.

Project Number: 39658-013
Project Name: Economic Recovery Program
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Common understanding of price adjustment in international civil works contracts needs to be worked out between the Kazakhstan government and the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

Project Number: 46145-001
Project Name: CAREC Corridor 3 (Shymkent–Tashkent Section) Road Improvement Project
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