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Construction timelines in climate-affected areas need to be reliably assessed to minimize completion delays. The construction timelines for Karamyk BCP, located at altitude of 2,300 meters above sea level, were tight. The contractor faced various issues due to the harsh weather, electricity supply interruptions, and delays with the supply of materials and equipment. Combined with the contractor’s relatively low financial capacity, this resulted in a 4-year construction period versus the originally planned 15-month implementation timeline.

Project Number: 46124-001
Project Name: Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Regional Improvement of Border Services Project
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Border crossing points (BCPs) will risk becoming stranded assets in the face of border disputes and other related issues. BCPs completed under the project have remained closed for traffic since April 2021 following a border dispute between the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan. By May 2024, around 10% of the border line with total estimated length of 970 kilometers remained to be delimitated. The countries are determined to complete the process and sign a border agreement within 2024. Until the delimitation is completed, the potential traffic volumes across the borders will remain unknown.

Project Number: 46124-001
Project Name: Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Regional Improvement of Border Services Project
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Trade facilitation reforms and national single window (NSW) development are complex undertakings requiring much time to be completed. This project's timelines were very ambitious with regard to the NSW component given that it required institutional and regulatory reforms; business process reengineering across multiple government agencies; as well as design, development, and integration of the SWIS.

Project Number: 46124-001
Project Name: Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Regional Improvement of Border Services Project
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The design and business processes, rollout, and evolution of Uzbekistan's Skills Development Fund (SDF) can be a model for countries that do not yet have such schemes.

Project Number: 38298-023
Project Name: Second Vocational Education and Skills Development Project
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A narrow, more focused project scope enables the delivery of more solid, complete results.

Project Number: 38298-023
Project Name: Second Vocational Education and Skills Development Project
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Direct partnerships with business associations are effective and sustainable in promoting cooperation between vocational schools and employers.

Project Number: 38298-023
Project Name: Second Vocational Education and Skills 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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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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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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Capacity building assistance including the provision of necessary facilities and equipment, which is important in protecting the Chatyr-Kul lake wetlands, should have been included in the beginning to mitigate the negative environmental impacts of the project road section traversing the protected area.

Project Number: 42399-023
Project Name: CAREC Corridor 1 (Bishkek–Torugart Road) Project 3
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The results of the prefeasibility analysis at appraisal should be clearly presentedin the RRP, including information on traffic surveys and forecast; and the estimate of the projectEIRR, including sensitivity analysis results.

Project Number: 42399-023
Project Name: CAREC Corridor 1 (Bishkek–Torugart Road) Project 3
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The project road alignment should be fixed at project inception so that environmental, land acquisition andresettlement, and indigenous peoples’ safeguards could be prepared more comprehensively.

Project Number: 42399-023
Project Name: CAREC Corridor 1 (Bishkek–Torugart Road) Project 3
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