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Navigating the appropriate financing size and institutional requirements of the CPRO while developing its scope and short- to medium-term directions demanded strong collaboration and coordination among ADB departments.

Project Number: 54169-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Active Response and Expenditure Support Program
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The COVID-19 Pandemic Response Option (CPRO) is an effective countercyclical measure that needs to be followed up by additional assistance from ADB and other donors to ensure the Kyrgyz Republic’s continuous, multifaceted recovery from the pandemic.

Project Number: 54169-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Active Response and Expenditure Support Program
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The project supported the One Health concept, which emphasizes the links between animal health and human health and emerging animal and human diseases. One Health provided a platform for unprecedented integration of animal, human and ecosystem health issues to fight the threat of avian influenza. The systematic collaboration of technical agencies across disciplines, such as FAO (veterinarians) and WHO (medical doctors) and civil society organizations (community health workers) supported by the project has promoted this concept since the beginning of the project.

Project Number: 39662-012
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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ADB's high-level steering committee demonstrated ADB's institutional support, which enhanced coordination between development partners. The committee, comprising the heads of all regional departments and the Strategy and Policy Department and chaired by the director general of RSDD, provided prompt policy guidance and expedited decisions and actions. It also ensured that the needs of the countries were ascertained and that they had adequate access to project resources.

Project Number: 39662-012
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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ADB was able to use its convening power effectively because it had the necessary in-house technical expertise. Public health experts on ADB's staff with knowledge of emerging infectious diseases were involved in designing and implementing the project. This in-house expertise made the dialogue with the technical and regional agencies to strengthen regional collaboration within and across the animal health and human health sectors possible.

Project Number: 39662-012
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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Each new outbreak of disease confronts projects such as this one, as well as the implementing partners and global community, with a fresh challenge, because its early spread outpaces the gathering of scientific evidence needed to formulate containment policies. Each successive outbreak is followed by an initial opaque period characterized by a frustrating lack of scientific evidence on which to base policies and technical guidance.

Project Number: 39662-012
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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The rapid launch and accelerated implementation of the project made necessary by the threat that avian influenza would become a pandemic made it difficult to define verifiable indicators for a number of the outputs under the regional capacity building and regional coordination components. A mid-term review of the project would have facilitated a review and updating of the design and monitoring framework.

Project Number: 39662-012
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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Procurement problems can be reduced by introducing prior review of procurement documents. In a sector project with many small subprojects, contracts should be grouped into larger packages to reduce the number of civil works contacts. This will help the PMUs as well as ADB to concentrate more effectively on fewer contracts. Use of clear and stringent evaluation and qualification criteria in selection of contractors should be mandatory, and establishing consortia of contractors should be encouraged.

Project Number: 31197-013
Project Name: Community-Based Infrastructure Services Sector Project
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Establishing a joint project management unit at sector level can be a more efficient and cost-effective solution and help ensure a harmonized approach among the financing institutions.

Project Number: 31197-013
Project Name: Community-Based Infrastructure Services Sector Project
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Improving the quality of the feasibility study will minimize uncertainty in identifying subprojects and lead to more precise cost estimates. When subproject cost estimates are uncertain, adequate physical contingencies should be provided in sector projects to mitigate against potential cost overruns.

Project Number: 31197-013
Project Name: Community-Based Infrastructure Services Sector Project
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Community-based organizations should be provided basic operation and maintenance kits to ensure sustainability of project activities.

Project Number: 31197-013
Project Name: Community-Based Infrastructure Services Sector Project
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Given that the idea of community-based preschools was innovative for the country, sufficient time should be given for a legal and regulatory framework to be established to adequately serve preschool educational services at the community level.

Project Number: 32143-013
Project Name: Community-Based Early Childhood Development Project
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If there are many small subprojects, the sector project modality should be adopted only with an executing agency having strong implementation capacity.

Project Number: 31197-013
Project Name: Community-Based Infrastructure Services Sector Project
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Community-based projects should be implemented with more involvement of local administrations than of just the central government.

Project Number: 31197-013
Project Name: Community-Based Infrastructure Services Sector Project
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Implementing a project in a new field, especially in a dynamically changing transition economy, requires flexibility on the part of both the government and ADB. Willingness to adjust the project's design to a new environment or new findings and acceptance of extra time required for the adjustments is essential. To be successful, the project must also be transparent to receive support from local governments and communities.

Project Number: 32143-013
Project Name: Community-Based Early Childhood Development Project
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