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Lesson
Rigorous and fast-paced monitoring and evaluation, which is well suited to the implementation arrangements, is critical in urgently needed and large programs like this one, hence, it needs emphasis in the design of such programs.

Project Number: 40563-013
Project Name: Earthquake-Displaced People Livelihood Restoration Program
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Technical assistance can be better targeted and made more efficient if support needed during implementation at different stages and levels can be identified upfront. A program administration memorandum would have been useful.

Project Number: 36155-013
Project Name: Private Participation in Infrastructure Program
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Complex projects such as this require consistent and close follow-up and coordination among the involved government agencies and departments and offices within ADB. It would be more catalytic and demonstrational if the setting up of policies, systems, and procedures were accompanied by the development of pilot projects especially in local government.

Project Number: 36155-013
Project Name: Private Participation in Infrastructure Program
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Undertaking policy reform requires a champion within the government system. Without adequate political backing, reforms are likely to flounder as the delay in implementation of the program and its subsequent turnaround exemplified.

Project Number: 36155-013
Project Name: Private Participation in Infrastructure Program
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Lesson
No new lessons.

Project Number: 34331-013
Project Name: Sustainable Livelihoods in Barani Areas Project
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Lesson
Project-specific benefit monitoring data need to be available to ensure project effectiveness through the evaluation of project performance. Total reliance on secondary data is not adequate.

Project Number: 23213-013
Project Name: Southern Punjab Basic Urban Services Project
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Lesson
Project monitoring should be close enough to identify if key project design assumptions are being put at risk (such as when the LGRDD, through the PCO, became the executing agency of the project), and if consequent shifts in project direction are likely (such as when PCO management was taken over by staff members deputed from the Housing, Urban Development and Public Health Engineering Department and focus was shifted toward infrastructure investments), and to avoid the shift in direction unless all parties agree to it.

Project Number: 23213-013
Project Name: Southern Punjab Basic Urban Services Project
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Lesson
Although one of the key features of project design was that urban projects need an integrated approach and infrastructure alone cannot result in improved services, unless capacities, resources, and systems are in place to sustainably deliver these services—the project design failed to ensure that all project stakeholders shared this view and were committed to it. Stakeholder analysis and ways to ensure the commitment of stakeholders to project design initiatives is thus recommended.

Project Number: 23213-013
Project Name: Southern Punjab Basic Urban Services Project
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Lesson
The conduct of a project preparatory technical assistance (PPTA) should be a necessary condition before undertaking a lending operation for technical education and vocational training. A PPTA could have helped to understand the institutional context, including possible political–economic factors that were in play.

Project Number: 36654-013
Project Name: Restructuring of the Technical Education and Vocational Training System Project (Balochistan)
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Lesson
Make sure that the risk is mitigated and mitigation measures are implemented effectively, most especially when the lack of commitment is a high risk.

Project Number: 38405-013
Project Name: Mega City Development Project
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Lesson
Project monitoring and evaluation systems require sets of measurable indicators and associated targets so that corrective measures can be implemented in time to achieve the project’s outcome.

Project Number: 27182-013
Project Name: North-West Frontier Province Urban Development Sector Project
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Lesson
Supervision missions must flag projects that are in danger of slippage before it is too late to modify the project;

Project Number: 27182-013
Project Name: North-West Frontier Province Urban Development Sector Project
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Lesson
Previous project and/or sector experience in Pakistan was not internalized and reflected in the design—the risk of underestimating capacity constraints could have been mitigated with a risk management strategy;

Project Number: 27182-013
Project Name: North-West Frontier Province Urban Development Sector Project
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Lesson
The project design did not have an adequate analytic base that should have included an assessment of stakeholders and their capacities, and provisions for alignment due to changes introduced by the LGO 2001;

Project Number: 27182-013
Project Name: North-West Frontier Province Urban Development Sector Project
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