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Project Number: 29629
Project Name: Ulaanbaatar Heat Efficiency Project
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Project Number: 33335-013
Project Name: Social Security Sector Development Program
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Project Number: 30531-013
Project Name: Cadastral Survey and Land Registration Project
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The scope of the program needs to be kept as simple as possible to reflect the country's capacity. [Main text, para. 30]

Project Number: 41180-022
Project Name: Improved Financial Management Program
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Consultants may need to spend more time in country (depending on the technicality of the conditions) to deal with issues as they arise and support the timely delivery of outputs and outcomes. [Main text, para. 30]

Project Number: 41180-022
Project Name: Improved Financial Management Program
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Conditions need to be achievable and realistic so that they can be implemented in a timely manner. The requirement to have a legal framework in place for the supervision and monitoring of banking activities, compatible with the Basel Principles of Banking and Supervision, proved challenging and potentially too ambitious for such an administration as small as Tuvalu yet this is an important element if there is to be private sector involvement in banking in Tuvalu. The country has limited technical capacity to implement such a legal framework and continuing assistance will be required.

Project Number: 41180-022
Project Name: Improved Financial Management Program
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Policy conditions for the release of tranches should be appropriate and achievable by the government and executing agency. In the case of Tuvalu, the requirement that Parliament adopt the regulatory framework for banking supervision as a condition for tranche release was out of the direct control of the government, and therefore constitutes a high risk to program success. [Main text, para. 30]

Project Number: 41180-022
Project Name: Improved Financial Management Program
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Thorough analysis of beneficiary preference, demand, and willingness to pay has to be conducted to ensure that preconceived notions of demand are verified, validated, and confirmed on the ground from the beneficiaries themselves. Very often project proponents from central government agencies have a different concept of needs and priorities from those at the field or local level. Local involvement in project conceptualization ensures greater project success, as there would be better ownership of project components and more accurate identification of needs of intended beneficiaries.

Project Number: 31243-013
Project Name: Integrated Development of Basic Urban Services in Provincial Towns Project
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The evaluation offers lessons regarding the need to properly adapt the scope and time frame of reforms to institutional capacity and to sequence reforms. Budget reform should be regarded as an evolving process and should focus on a more limited set of reforms that are within the reach of government institutions.

Project Number: 35376-023
Project Name: Second Phase of the Governance Reform Program
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An executing agency's ability to implement project activities within set timeframes is diluted where there is limited PMU capacity, a lack of experience with ADB procedures, and inadequate executive oversight.

Project Number: 38599-022
Project Name: HIV/AIDS Prevention and Capacity Development in the Pacific
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The provision of technical assistance (TA) should match the scope of targeted policy reforms and the capacity of implementing agencies. In addition, it appears from the evaluation of the program that ADB's great reliance on TA consultants to develop much of its policy and advisory input affects its ability to develop sustainable internal capacity on policy issues. It has thereby reduced ADB's ability to quickly respond to government requests for policy advice and to engage in long-term dialogue.

Project Number: 34135-013
Project Name: Financial Regulation and Governance Program
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Efforts to strengthen routine surveillance and laboratory capacity will achieve only limited success where health information systems and laboratory services are weak.

Project Number: 38599-022
Project Name: HIV/AIDS Prevention and Capacity Development in the Pacific
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In general, it is proposed that program loans should either not include highly complex and far-reaching policy reforms or build on enhanced policy dialogue, comprehensive technical assistance, and intensive monitoring and review by ADB. Lack of technical understanding on the part of political decision makers requires support for comprehensive and consistent advisory technical assistance throughout the drafting and approval process of new legislation.

Project Number: 34135-013
Project Name: Financial Regulation and Governance Program
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Even if a project is aligned with regional strategies, designs need to incorporate sufficient national consultation and consider country absorptive and technical capacity and commitment.

Project Number: 38599-022
Project Name: HIV/AIDS Prevention and Capacity Development in the Pacific
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The evaluation offers some lessons regarding the need to (i) properly adapt the scope and time frame of comprehensive and sensitive policy reforms to institutional capacity, (ii) carefully sequence reforms, and (iii) take a long-term approach to development. Developing capital markets is a long-term process, for which 10-20 years may be considered a realistic time frame. Capital market reform should focus on a limited set of highly selective and sequenced reforms that are within reach of government implementation capacity.

Project Number: 34135-013
Project Name: Financial Regulation and Governance Program
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