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Gaining ownership from stakeholders and partners is paramount to the success of a project vis-à-vis its long-term sustainability, mitigating effectiveness risk bottlenecks, and avoiding otherwise foreseeable delays. The project had multiple benefits for stakeholders who were previously unserved by basic urban services. It improved urban environment indicators in municipalities and contributed to ADB’s 2030 operational strategies but was delayed nearly 2 years for various foreseeable technical

Project Number: 42161-013
Project Name: Integrated Urban Development Project
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The delays in this project showed that national and subnational governments must exert more effort to include a broad and diverse range of stakeholders from the initial project design to implementation for it to be successful. Further investigation or interviews may be necessary to ascertain where the lapses were in establishing fuller community support.

Project Number: 42161-013
Project Name: Integrated Urban Development Project
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It is critical to embed targeted and specified stakeholder risk analysis and risk mitigation measures into the planning of complex, community-driven, and local government-implemented infrastructure investments, especially for multi-dimensional and cross-sector urban development projects. One of the critical project lessons learned is that, although the project’s governance risk assessment and management plan foresaw the cost and time overrun owing to disbursement and

Project Number: 42161-013
Project Name: Integrated Urban Development Project
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Establishing a system for project performance and benefit monitoring, and ensuring its operation after post-project completion helps facilitate the systematic tracking of project results. Weak monitoring and reporting of implementation issues and the insufficient collection and analyses of project benefits and socioeconomic data would hamper project evaluation and lead to noncompliance with loan covenants. The project planned for a PPMS, and DMF indicators were to be collected at baseline and monitored annually. But in this project, the PPMS submitted only one annual report.

Project Number: 38349-013
Project Name: Air Transport Capacity Enhancement Project
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Establishing the critical requirements for project readiness creates an enabling environment in facilitating the implementation of project activities. Without these requisites, project risks (e.g., institutional factors, procurement risk and delays, among other things) can be greater which could lead to cost and time overruns. A well-defined implementation arrangement at the onset between executing and contracting agencies would convey clear guidance on the respective functions and scope of operations required during various stages of implementation.

Project Number: 38349-013
Project Name: Air Transport Capacity Enhancement Project
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Revising the DMF and the indicators in a timely manner can accurately reflect outcomes and outputs that are relevant and feasible.

Project Number: 38176-015
Project Name: Skills Development Project
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Considering all associated risks and possible mitigating measures during project planning phase are important in designing a project for a country undergoing a major political transition.

Project Number: 38176-015
Project Name: Skills Development Project
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Greater familiarization with ADB’s guidelines on the conduct of project-level economic and financial analyses helps facilitate assessments of a project’s economic viability and financial profitability.

Project Number: 44058-013
Project Name: Kathmandu Sustainable Urban Transport Project
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A well-established project performance management system, covering the initial phase of project implementation up to post completion, allows a more systematic collection of baseline, implementation, and post-completion data and information that facilitates a more robust analyses of a project’s outcome and impacts.

Project Number: 44058-013
Project Name: Kathmandu Sustainable Urban Transport Project
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An attached advisory TA project can be further utilized in fine-tuning the design during project implementation.

Project Number: 37292-042
Project Name: High Mountain Agribusiness and Livelihood Improvement Project
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A more in-depth analysis allows better consideration of the scale, scope, and sequencing of agricultural production vis-à-vis other value-chain activities, including marketing aspects. Lessons learned from past ADB-assisted agriculture and livelihood development projects in the country can also help clarify similar issues encountered in project design.

Project Number: 37292-042
Project Name: High Mountain Agribusiness and Livelihood Improvement Project
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Thorough planning during the design phase helps support the achievement of the targeted project results.

Project Number: 37292-042
Project Name: High Mountain Agribusiness and Livelihood Improvement Project
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A focused intervention approach in specific geographic areas and commodity groups eligible for support can achieve more effective and sustainable results for agribusiness development in remote mountain areas.

Project Number: 37292-042
Project Name: High Mountain Agribusiness and Livelihood Improvement Project
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Consultation with service agencies during project design stage is best, as their hands-on experience and knowledge of the sector would enhance project availability and allow them to align with the proposed project.

Project Number: 40054-013
Project Name: South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation Information Highway
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Multilateral and bilateral agreement would be more helpful if undertaken before loan approval as it would indicate buy-in and commitment by participating countries.

Project Number: 40054-013
Project Name: South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation Information Highway
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