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Helping island economies strengthen management systems (such as the FMIS), developing realistic infrastructure strategies, incorporating sound governance concepts in legislation, and supporting regulations can assist Pacific DMCs, if these policy actions are accompanied by a TA to overcome human resource limitations and achieve sound economic management outcomes

Project Number: 52073-001
Project Name: Improving Public Investment Management Program
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Long-term partnerships between government and key development partners are essential for supporting macroeconomic management Pacific small island economies. Partnerships provide a framework for on-going policy dialogue and coordination of support, which facilitates the government’s role in macroeconomic management and provides a foundation to support sustainable development (program-level lesson)

Project Number: 52073-001
Project Name: Improving Public Investment Management Program
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It is important to properly sequence the implementation of technical assistance so it could provide its inputs to the project in a timely manner. According to the project completion report, the delay in the development of the National Transport Plan supported by the project preparatory TA affected project implementation as projects sites were required to be included in the plan prior to implementation.

Project Number: 40263-022
Project Name: Domestic Maritime Support (Sector) Project
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Ensuring adequate project performance monitorng system (PPMS) design—along with collection of baseline data at project preparation phase—supports effective monitoring of a project’s performance. Although establishing a PPMS was covenanted in the grant agreement, the PPMS was ineffective in providing the data required for calculation of economic internal rate of return. The lack of data indicates that the PPMS was inappropriately designed and that a greater focus on the PPMS design at project preparation is needed. For

Project Number: 40263-022
Project Name: Domestic Maritime Support (Sector) Project
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a detailed design and implementation assessment enhances the project’s success, especially for projects that help provide shipping services to outlying and remote island communities. ADB has experience in this with two projects in the Pacific region that were to provide shipping services to outlying and remote island communities—this one that is under validation while the other is the Community Water Transport Project in Papua New Guinea.16 However, both projects were rated less than successful, which indicate endemic issues with their design and implementation.

Project Number: 40263-022
Project Name: Domestic Maritime Support (Sector) Project
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Adequate budgetary and institutional support is crucial to ensuring that data collection and analysis is undertaken throughout the project cycle.

Project Number: 40263-022
Project Name: Domestic Maritime Support (Sector) Project
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Factors outside the control of projects can affect the growth of maritime Transport; in turn affecting the viability of a franchise sharing scheme (FSS).

Project Number: 40263-022
Project Name: Domestic Maritime Support (Sector) Project
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More targeted capacity development could lead to better results.

Project Number: 40263-022
Project Name: Domestic Maritime Support (Sector) Project
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Shared TA among development partners and sustained policy dialogue with the government facilitate improvements to public expenditure management.

Project Number: 52073-001
Project Name: Improving Public Investment Management Program
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Reform programs grounded in government policy and sound technical assessments remain viable despite changes in government and socioeconomic difficulties.

Project Number: 52073-001
Project Name: Improving Public Investment Management Program
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Further reforms, building on this program’s achievements, are needed to secure a sustainable improvement in public infrastructure and service delivery and ultimately living standards in Nauru.

Project Number: 52073-001
Project Name: Improving Public Investment Management Program
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The formal government and development partner coordination mechanisms offer the opportunity to reduce transaction costs for all parties and increase the likelihood of a good quality program design and implementation. In the case of Solomon Islands, it utilized a wellestablished coordination mechanism to undertake policy dialogue, to design a program that is responsive to the country’s needs, and to jointly oversee program implementation.

Project Number: 52074-001
Project Name: Improved Fiscal Sustainability Reform Program
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Single-tranche and stand-alone policy-based programs can be an appropriate instrument to support reforms in fragile states provided that (i) these take place in the context of an ongoing, long-term development partnership; and (ii) there is a demonstrated government commitment to pursue substantial reforms over an extended time frame. Moreover, such programs need to be supported by ongoing capacity development in key agencies. In fragile states, the risks to implementing and sustaining reforms are amplified by external shocks and natural disasters.

Project Number: 52074-001
Project Name: Improved Fiscal Sustainability Reform Program
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Agreed. A large turn-out from all the Pacific DMCs at the workshop, including finance ministries and maritime and aviation authorities culminated in strong ownership and commitment to delivering new projects. Regional workshops are an affective mechanism for soliciting stakeholder participation in the Pacific and can culminate in strong ownership and commitment to delivering new projects.

Project Number: 46502-001
Project Name: Trade and Transport Facilitation in the Pacific
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Agreed. Maintaining continuity in the course of TA implementation by utilizing the consultant team most familiar with the project can result in benefits from knowledge building. Furthermore, knowledge sharing initiatives provide a mechanism to facilitate information exchange that can result in successful project outcomes.

Project Number: 46502-001
Project Name: Trade and Transport Facilitation in the Pacific
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