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A systematic documentation of economic analysis during both appraisal and completion supportd better project evaluability.

Project Number: 43456-023
Project Name: Power Sector Improvement Project
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Identifying and implementing risk mitigation measures and providing early implementation support are crucial in minimizing startup delays and facilitating timely implementation progress of projects.

Project Number: 43456-023
Project Name: Power Sector Improvement Project
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It is important to perform adequate due diligence at appraisal to develop a realistic project schedule that duly considers the borrower's institutional setup and internal review and approval procedures, and the executing agency's existing capacity and prior experience in implementing ADB and/or other development organizations' projects.

Project Number: 43456-023
Project Name: Power Sector Improvement Project
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Project design should reflect realistic target timeframes for outputs that target legislation, as it is largely influenced by political conditions, priorities, and pace of reforms.

Project Number: 43566-013
Project Name: Inclusive Micro, Small, and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project
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Adequately taking into account institutional capacity and implementation constraints at appraisal leads to better design formulation.

Project Number: 43566-013
Project Name: Inclusive Micro, Small, and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project
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Strategic environmental impact assessment should be considered to justify and strengthen ADB’s continued commitment and presence in the Issyk-Kul region and clearly provide ADB’s value addition.

Project Number: 41548-013
Project Name: Issyk-Kul Sustainable Development Project
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Misprocurement can be avoided by (a) ensuring proper pre-qualification of bidders; and (b) defining clear evaluation guideline that will allow for skeptical review of bids that are well below a defined threshold to ensure that the winning bidder has the financial and technical capacity to perform.

Project Number: 41548-013
Project Name: Issyk-Kul Sustainable Development Project
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Realistic outcomes in nonrevenue water (NRW) normally suggest that NRW reduction take time and are not capital intensive or asset specific.

Project Number: 41548-013
Project Name: Issyk-Kul Sustainable Development Project
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Twinning of utilities can have a positive impact on utility performance and specific results; however, as with this project, issues concerning compatibility and outcome targets may arise.

Project Number: 41548-013
Project Name: Issyk-Kul Sustainable Development Project
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Reforms on tax burden and administration should be broad enough to significantly reduce the cost of tax compliance and eventually the size of the informal economy.

Project Number: 41544-088, 41544-089, 41544-091
Project Name: Second Investment Climate Improvement Program (Subprograms 1–3)
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Inclusion of gender targets in policy actions and DMF ensures the delivery of gender actions benefiting women.

Project Number: 41544-088, 41544-089, 41544-091
Project Name: Second Investment Climate Improvement Program (Subprograms 1–3)
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Greater project management capacity is necessary. MOTC and IPIG were effective in delivering the purely physical side of the project—the 75 km road civil works being completed within budget and the project’s closing date being extended to rehabilitate an additional 6 km village road using unutilized funds. However, the executing agency was not fully appreciative of the broader project design, including the nonphysical outputs and the importance of environmental safeguards, consultation, and monitoring.

Project Number: 42399-013
Project Name: CAREC Transport Corridor 1 (Bishkek–Torugart Road) Project 2
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Effective tax administration requires an effective automated registration, payment, collection, and monitoring system. Sharing the experience of other neighboring countries in implementing similar tax reforms and modernization will be helpful in further improving such systems.

Project Number: 39015-042
Project Name: Tax Administration Reform and Modernization Project
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Projects that require substantial pre-project awareness of new technological interventions and arrangements to include capacity-building elements into project preparatory technical assistance should be considered essential and built into project documents.

Project Number: 39015-042
Project Name: Tax Administration Reform and Modernization Project
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Project experience suggests that TA completion reports for the TA projects associated with the loans should be reviewed to derive lessons learned.

Project Number: 39015-042
Project Name: Tax Administration Reform and Modernization Project
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