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Supplementing programmatic assistance with sufficient, targeted technical assistance (TA) is effective in achieving reforms

Project Number: 47137-003, 47137-006
Project Name: Health Sector Governance Program (Subprograms 1 and 2)
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A multiple tranche arrangement ensures satisfactory progression of reforms and strengthens government accountability for the reforms.

Project Number: 47137-003, 47137-006
Project Name: Health Sector Governance Program (Subprograms 1 and 2)
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Participatory development and full alignment of reform programs with country strategies and plans foster strong ownership and commitment from the government.

Project Number: 47137-003, 47137-006
Project Name: Health Sector Governance Program (Subprograms 1 and 2)
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Improving HIV/AIDS service quality is a prolonged process that requires a comprehensive approach and continuous monitoring.

Project Number: 42179-013
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion Capacity Building for HIV/AIDS Prevention Project
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More intensive support from ADB gender specialists throughout the project period is vital to ensuring the effective implementation of gender action plans (GAPs).

Project Number: 42179-013
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion Capacity Building for HIV/AIDS Prevention Project
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Successful innovations require careful consideration of the project context.

Project Number: 42179-013
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion Capacity Building for HIV/AIDS Prevention Project
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Regional collaboration for health security is increasingly becoming important with deepening regional integration.

Project Number: 42179-013
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion Capacity Building for HIV/AIDS Prevention Project
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The coverage for the health equity fund (HEF) scheme supported by the program increased from three pilot provinces to cover all eight target provinces. This resulted in a higher number of eligible beneficiaries and health service utilization by the poor. Despite this, a large percentage of the eligible beneficiaries were not accessing the free HEF-funded services.

Project Number: 41376-022
Project Name: Health Sector Development Program
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The program tested a new fund flow mechanism for the health sector. Based on the successful trial the government has increased funding for health at the provincial level, resulting in expanded health services coverage, particularly for maternal, newborn, and child health care (MNCH) services and the provision of free health care for the poor.

Project Number: 41376-022
Project Name: Health Sector Development Program
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Output and outcome performance monitoring was generally limited to the baseline, midterm and end of program survey. Key core performance data should be collected, analyzed and reported on a quarterly basis, in alignment with standard government indicators. This provides provinces and the national level with an up-to-date status of program performance and comparative data across provinces. These data should inform the annual planning process and identify where additional support is needed.

Project Number: 41376-022
Project Name: Health Sector Development Program
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Funding is necessary, but is not sufficient for building capacity in the provinces and districts as they move to decentralized governance. Strengthening regulatory arrangements and institutional capacity is dependent on good management and financial procedures. A number of the provinces have increased management and technical competency and can play a valuable role through mentoring and/or twinning programs to help expand successful initiatives to others provinces.

Project Number: 41376-022
Project Name: Health Sector Development Program
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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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