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It is critically important to conduct capacity assessments and provide comprehensive orientation sessions for implementing agencies( (IAs) at the outset of projects. This is particularly true for new IAs largely unfamiliar with donor policies and guidelines, which in this project, created challenges in aligning activities with established guidelines that in turn led to delays and issues with discrepancies in execution.

Project Number: 46416-002
Project Name: Power Transmission Rehabilitation Project
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It is important to tailor impact indicators to what the project can realistically achieve in relation to wider development goals. Two project impacts selected at inception—(i) an increase in per capita electricity consumption from 2,000 kWh (2013) to 3,000 (2023), and (ii) an increase in annual electricity supply from 6,300 GWh (2013) to 15,000 (2023) cannot be linked directly to an increase in substation capacity and SCADA expansion. As such, no reliable assessment can be made on the project's accomplishment relative to these indicators.

Project Number: 46416-002
Project Name: Power Transmission Rehabilitation Project
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Overestimated project costs lead to unutilized loan amounts and wastage of commitment fees. At appraisal, the investment program was estimated to cost $920.0 million, comprising ADB loans of $730.0 million (79.4%) and government contributions of $190.0 million (20.6%). At completion, the program cost totaled $669.3 million, of which ADB provided $253.8 million (37.9%).

Project Number: 42039-033, 42039-036
Project Name: Power Transmission Investment Program
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Key government policy changes need to be monitored for possible impacts on projects and project updates undertaken as necessary. Tranche 3 faced major resettlement challenges and experienced delays of up to 2.5 years beyond the initially approved loan closing date. This was because local authorities encountered difficulties in completing site clearance and subsequent compensation payments. Until the preparation of ADB’s project completion report, compensation payments have remained pending on (i) 3 subprojects because of

Project Number: 42039-033, 42039-036
Project Name: Power Transmission Investment Program
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Within the context of promoting environmentally sustainable growth, it is worthwhile to identify and formulate projects that are environmentally positive rather than focusing on preventing negative environmental impacts. Such opportunities exist, especially in the agriculture, rural development, and environmental sector. Country programming missions could help identify these types of environmentally-positive projects.

Project Number: 45406-001
Project Name: Low Carbon Agricultural Support Project
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The use of a proven technology attractive to project participants can help ensure the attainment of development results. This project included two poorly prepared components—credit and technology transfer—one was not implemented at all and the other only achieved a portion of its targeted outputs. Having a tried and promising technology to promote is an important step toward project success.

Project Number: 45406-001
Project Name: Low Carbon Agricultural Support Project
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Procurement should be exhaustive. Developing a procurement strategy with proper analysis of market availability, operating environment, including capacity assessments of executing and implementing agencies, and risk management will help the project achieve its intended results in a timely manner. Where a project requires participation of government-owned universities or research centers, attention should be paid at project appraisal to para. 1.13 (c) of ADB’s Guidelines on the Use of Consultants (2013, as amended from time to time).

Project Number: 45406-001
Project Name: Low Carbon Agricultural Support Project
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Sound project design requires adequate technical input and open communication with key participants and/or stakeholders. Greater technical input was necessary to appraise the government’s proposed components during project preparation. Specifically, the design flaws in output 2, credit lines for biogas value chains and other climate-smart agriculture waste management investments, would have been avoided if the processing team had access to livestock, environmental, and institutional specialists with appropriate country knowledge to support the financial management specialist.

Project Number: 45406-001
Project Name: Low Carbon Agricultural Support Project
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Research activities must be undertaken early in project implementation. Where research is needed to guide the introduction of new technologies, such research is better undertaken in advance of a project so that results can be incorporated in the project design. In this project, the 5-year project time frame was too short in undertaking research, evaluating results, and effecting replication. This time frame was further exacerbated by denying the participation of government-owned research institutes in the research program.

Project Number: 45406-001
Project Name: Low Carbon Agricultural Support Project
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Well-developed monitoring framework, with logically defined target indicators, can assist the project in measuring its achievements and results objectively

Project Number: 42039-034
Project Name: Power Transmission Investment Program - Tranche 1
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The provision of training and capacity building support at the outset is critical to facilitate project preparation and design, specifically on attending to project pertinent areas before implementation.

Project Number: 42039-034
Project Name: Power Transmission Investment Program - Tranche 1
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Contract packaging should carefully consider the market conditions while ensuring competition and efficiency.

Project Number: 42039-034
Project Name: Power Transmission Investment Program - Tranche 1
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ADB’s due diligence should build on the EA’s pre-feasibility study and refer to the local and international market rates to arrive at more reliable cost estimates.

Project Number: 42039-034
Project Name: Power Transmission Investment Program - Tranche 1
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ADB should ensure adequate government allocations for land acquisition and resettlement (LAR) and tighten its monitoring and oversight to keep in check safeguards noncompliance and implementation delays

Project Number: 42039-034
Project Name: Power Transmission Investment Program - Tranche 1
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Devoting sufficient attention to the gender action plan and ethnic minority development plan during project implementation through resource support and provision of expertise could result in substantial results on the performance of the p

Project Number: 42182-013
Project Name: Renewable Energy Development and Network Expansion and Rehabilitation for Remote Communes Sector Project
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