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Project sustainability crucially depends on a financially sound operating agency and a tariff level and structure that ensures sufficient resources to cover costs. Without financial soundness, the risk of an unsuccessful project outcome is high. Thus, it is important to ensure that either there are cost-recovery mechanisms in place or budgetary resources are sufficiently earmarked to cover operation and maintenance expenses.

Project Number: 52256-006
Project Name: Osh-Plotina Water Treatment Plant Chlorine Neutralization Unit
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Water treatment plant designs, whether for rehabilitation or otherwise, that are not complete in the components needed to operate the project effectively and safely, could have inherent risks in terms of delays in completion of the project and delays in producing the economic benefits that was expected from the project. Therefore, it may be worthwhile, to carefully plan or consider all pertinent components in the design stage. This could only be done by pursuing an integrated approach.

Project Number: 52256-006
Project Name: Osh-Plotina Water Treatment Plant Chlorine Neutralization Unit
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No new lessons

Project Number: 54156-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Active Response and Expenditure Support Program
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The flexibility of EAL allows the design and monitoring framework (DMF) to be enhanced during implementation. This was not fully maximized in this project. Other than adding project outputs under the additional financing, outcome indicators remained to have attribution issues. Outcome indicators for improved transport infrastructures could have helped provide data to calculate EIRR at completion (para. 13). Quality review, including interdepartmental review at appraisal, can provide guidance in this regard.

Project Number: 49319-001
Project Name: Cyclone Pam Road Reconstruction Project
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Projects designed as emergency assistance loan (EAL) require stronger project performance monitoring system (PPMS) to closely monitor progress and achievements. Since EAL is usually designed fast, there is greater chance that project scope, design, and targets are fluid and call for a very robust monitoring system to ensure that baselines and targets are developed and monitored during implementation and at completion. These include a strong support to measure project benefits that are crucial for EIRR calculations.

Project Number: 49319-001
Project Name: Cyclone Pam Road Reconstruction Project
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Strengthening partnerships among bilateral and multilateral organizations, especially in the Pacific region, supplements a government’s initiatives. For instance, complementary work among these donors helps a government in redesigning projects struck by disasters during implementation, especially to realign project components alongside the urgent needs of disaster recovery, rehabilitation, and reconstruction efforts.

Project Number: 42391-013
Project Name: Port Vila Urban Development Project
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Preparatory studies of project design, which ensure technical feasibility during project preparatory phase, help reduce the effect of implementation delays that may arise due to changes in project scope or geographical conditions. As such, project master plans need to be properly supplemented by technical details to ensure suitable configuration of components. These need to cover the whole range of alternative technical options that are available.

Project Number: 42391-013
Project Name: Port Vila Urban Development Project
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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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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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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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