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Project Number: 32239-013
Project Name: Urban and Environmental Improvement Project
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Project Number: 36611-013
Project Name: Skills for Employment Project
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Proper legislation and project design can ensure social inclusion and easy access of women, socially disadvantaged groups, and minorities to national politics, civil service, and leadership in local infrastructure development and management.

Project Number: 40554-022, 40554-032
Project Name: Rural Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Sector Development Program
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Packaging of numerous small civil work contracts and consultants to be procured in a decentralized manner poses procurement risks and creates challenges for timely procurement and proper management of contractors and consultants.

Project Number: 40554-022, 40554-032
Project Name: Rural Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Sector Development Program
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Lack of project readiness leads to project implementation delays. Completing requisite preparatory works prior to project approval maximizes the possibility of timely project implementation by giving adequate attention to construction quality and sustainability of facilities. Proper provisioning and implementation of advance procurement and retroactive financing can also minimize implementation delays.

Project Number: 40554-022, 40554-032
Project Name: Rural Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Sector Development Program
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Funding is necessary but not in itself sufficient for improved decentralization and local governance. Strengthening of regulatory arrangements and institutional capacity of central and local agencies for technical, procurement, financial, and safeguards management can play important roles in improving the quality of project implementation and achieving intended objectives.

Project Number: 40554-022, 40554-032
Project Name: Rural Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Sector Development Program
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Reforms with broad-based consultations reflecting country needs and context have better chances to succeed. Much of the program's success can be attributed to participation and ownership of stakeholders during formulation and implementation of the policy reforms, as well as to alignment of the policies with the prevailing political and economic situation.

Project Number: 40554-022, 40554-032
Project Name: Rural Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Sector Development Program
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Sequencing of reforms is crucial to achieve intended outcomes that call for a long-term partnership. For example, institutionalizing citizen engagement in local governance and instituting accountability measures before providing increased funding to local bodies reduce fiduciary risks and improve the likelihood that funds will be used properly. _x005F_x000D__x005F_x000D_Regular review of existing policies and guidelines is important to assess their effectiveness and relevance in a given context, and a one-size-fits-all approach in policies and guidelines fails to achieve intended outcomes.

Project Number: 36172-042
Project Name: Governance Support Program (Subprogram I)
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Each new outbreak of disease confronts projects such as this one, as well as the implementing partners and global community, with a fresh challenge, because its early spread outpaces the gathering of scientific evidence needed to formulate containment policies. Each successive outbreak is followed by an initial opaque period characterized by a frustrating lack of scientific evidence on which to base policies and technical guidance.

Project Number: 39662-012
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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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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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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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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ADB was able to use its convening power effectively because it had the necessary in-house technical expertise. Public health experts on ADB's staff with knowledge of emerging infectious diseases were involved in designing and implementing the project. This in-house expertise made the dialogue with the technical and regional agencies to strengthen regional collaboration within and across the animal health and human health sectors possible.

Project Number: 39662-012
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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