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A least-cost generation planning study is necessary to provide a sound plan for a schedule of investments in generation that optimizes efficiency of the country’s scarce resources.

Project Number: 46455-002
Project Name: Electricity Supply Security and Sustainability Project
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The exclusion of important economic costs, such as distribution and environmental costs, usually results in EIRRs that have little credibility.

Project Number: 46455-002
Project Name: Electricity Supply Security and Sustainability Project
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Using investment income gains to meet ADB’s administration fee and bank charges is a good fund management practice.

Project Number: 46455-002
Project Name: Electricity Supply Security and Sustainability Project
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Twice reallocating the originally assigned use of grant proceeds can mitigate the foreign exchange risks in multicurrency projects.

Project Number: 46455-002
Project Name: Electricity Supply Security and Sustainability Project
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Strong relationships with the governments facilitate agreements.

Project Number: 46455-002
Project Name: Electricity Supply Security and Sustainability Project
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Project costs are high in a small, remote, and logistically challenged country.

Project Number: 46455-002
Project Name: Electricity Supply Security and Sustainability Project
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No additional lessons

Project Number: 48478-001
Project Name: Fiscal Sustainability Reform Program
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Country ownership of reforms strengthen their success potentials.

Project Number: 48478-001
Project Name: Fiscal Sustainability Reform Program
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Development partner coordination fosters program success.

Project Number: 48478-001
Project Name: Fiscal Sustainability Reform Program
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Focusing on the most important measures boosts the likelihood of success of a reform agenda.

Project Number: 48478-001
Project Name: Fiscal Sustainability Reform Program
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Fitting reforms to the issues and contexts they are seeking to address is crucial to success.

Project Number: 48478-001
Project Name: Fiscal Sustainability Reform Program
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Ensure that outcome and output indicators are appropriate, and that the methodology to monitor them are identified during program design to better capture the success of the program.

Project Number: 45032-001
Project Name: Public Financial Management Reform Program
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Donor coordination. Strong coordination amongst development partners, notably with the Government of Australia, was essential to the program's success. Australia provided in-line advisors to support the government to implement many of the program-related reforms (e.g., within the MOF and NUC) as well as TA that complemented the program. ADB's donor coordination role also meant ADB was requested by Nauru and its development partners to assist with the crucial task of establishing a new Nauru trust fund.

Project Number: 45032-001
Project Name: Public Financial Management Reform Program
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Technical foundations. The program benefitted from, and integrated, a range of TA from ADB and other development partners. This provided a strong foundation for the program's reform agenda, which meant policy actions were both well founded and viewed as appropriate by the government, despite the political and economic changes.

Project Number: 45032-001
Project Name: Public Financial Management Reform Program
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The potential for large shifts in the political and economic context can create significant challenges for implementation. The program was able to succeed despite encountering such challenges as it was strongly aligned with Nauru's own strategic policy agenda, in particular the National Sustainable Development Strategy.

Project Number: 45032-001
Project Name: Public Financial Management Reform Program
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