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Regarding use of the RMF (road maintenance fund), while the funding base for the RMF is broadening and annual expenditure allocations increasing, the fund is now spending only part of its income on maintenance and the amount for routine maintenance is relatively small. The RMF is not independent from the government budget system, and in 2014 - 2015 only 89% of fuel levy revenue is budgeted to be spent. This raises potential concern as to the future sustainability of the overall road maintenance.

Project Number: 41656-012
Project Name: Northern Greater Mekong Subregion Transport Network Improvement Project
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Another important lesson learned from the project was that the use of a 6-year implementation period and design - construct contracts for the civil works packages was successful in addressing implementation delays that have occurred in previous road projects in the Lao PDR. The reasons for this success are (i) consultants can review contractors' designs easily and maintain the quality of design, and (ii) design - construct contracts can shorten the implementation period.

Project Number: 41656-012
Project Name: Northern Greater Mekong Subregion Transport Network Improvement Project
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Project implementation delays in the civil works for contract R4-1 (Xieng-Ngeun - Pak Khone) were caused by a non-performing contractor, requiring the reallocation of part of the civil works to the performing contractor for contract R4-3 (Nam Pui Bridge - Paklay Bridge) to expedite and complete works in a timely manner. The lesson learned from this is that the executing agencies of future projects need to identify and replace non-performing contractors at an early stage and replace them with performing contractors.

Project Number: 41656-012
Project Name: Northern Greater Mekong Subregion Transport Network Improvement Project
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The project demonstrated that the upgrading of national roads that connect the poorer districts of the Lao PDR is a viable means of addressing accessibility to markets and services for poor rural districts. The project provides an important link in the GMS (Greater Mekong Subregion) transport corridors connecting northern Thailand, northern Viet Nam, and the southern provinces of the PRC (People's Republic of China).

Project Number: 41656-012
Project Name: Northern Greater Mekong Subregion Transport Network Improvement Project
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The speed with which VLF (village livelihood fund) loans were absorbed shows that there is a strong unmet demand for credit among livestock producers. Access to finance is a constraint to further expansion of livestock production. Increases in loan ceilings and tenure terms are needed to meet the needs of commercial producers.

Project Number: 35297-013
Project Name: Northern Region Sustainable Livelihoods Through Livestock Development Project
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The Basic Education Sector Development Program demonstrated the efficacy of the sector development program (SDP) modality in providing complementary policy and implementation support, if well designed and supported. However, in future SDPs, it will be important to link program and project components more explicitly (e.g., identifying how the project will support achievement of policy actions) to maximize efficacy, while ensuring close alignment in the content of the Reports and Recommendations of the President and the design and monitoring framework.

Project Number: 32312-013
Project Name: Basic Education Sector Development Program
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The free connection policy has clearly shown its enormous impact on water supply coverage. A condition of connecting a premise to the water supply is that it must have a sanitation facility complying with local sanitation regulations. Residents are willing to install an approved sanitation facility so they can access the free connection to the piped system. Moreover, this policy has tremendously impacted sanitation coverage in the target communities.

Project Number: 34197-032, 34197-042
Project Name: Northern and Central Regions Water Supply and Sanitation Sector
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Engaging Ministry of Education and Sports (MOES) units. The approach of engaging multiple MOES units as focal points for implementing particular interventions posed some challenges but proved advantageous on balance, enhancing ownership and building capacities to sustain benefits post-project. In addition to close coordination, careful specification of responsibilities and division of labor, clear unit and individual accountability, and sustained monitoring are critical in such a model.

Project Number: 32312-013
Project Name: Basic Education Sector Development Program
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Maintained strategic dialogue. The original project design's alignment with the government's objectives benefited from strong dialogue during the design phase, as well as from ADB's prior engagement in the country's education sector. Implementation also benefited from continuous close dialogue between the executing agency, consultants, and ADB (including on policy and technical dimensions), which allowed for recovery from initial delays and timely and flexible responses to emerging issues.

Project Number: 32312-013
Project Name: Basic Education Sector Development Program
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Executing agencies of future projects need to identify and replace nonperforming contractors at an early stage. Executing agencies also need to more carefully scrutinize the financial, management, and equipment capacities of bidders during bid evaluation.

Project Number: 30271-013
Project Name: Roads for Rural Development Project
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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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Include benefit monitoring evaluation capacity building and training with executing agencies at both national and provincial level. The difficulty of accurately assessing the full economic impact and poverty reduction benefits of this project because of the delay in conducting baseline benefit monitoring highlights the need to ensure the immediate commencement of baseline data measurement prior to civil works commencement.

Project Number: 30271-013
Project Name: Roads for Rural Development Project
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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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Advanced design and tender document readiness for civil works being prepared at appraisal allowed early civil works contracting and mobilization, ensuring appraisal loan completion dates can be achieved.

Project Number: 30271-013
Project Name: Roads for Rural Development Project
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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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