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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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No additional lessons

Project Number: 32058-033
Project Name: Punjab Road Development Sector Project
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The Local Government and Rural Development Department, through the project coordination office (PCO), was the executing agency of the project. However, with limited capacity demonstrated in implementing the project for the first 2 years, PCO management was taken over by staff members deputed from Housing, Urban Development and Public Health Engineering Department, and focus shifted toward infrastructure investments. Sustainability can be better achieved if the organizations that operate services remain fully involved in its design, planning, and implementation stages.

Project Number: 23213-013
Project Name: Southern Punjab Basic Urban Services Project
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Based on the analysis at completion, one of the major flaws in the devolution process was that tehsil municipal administrations (TMAs) were given additional responsibilities without providing them the additional staff members, resources, power, and regulatory environment to deliver these responsibilities. In the absence of these four key elements, any further investments in urban services managed by TMAs are not expected to deliver sustainable results and service improvements.

Project Number: 23213-013
Project Name: Southern Punjab Basic Urban Services Project
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Ownership and commitment of the Punjab government toward the Punjab Local Government Ordinance (PLGO), 2001 decreased over the project implementation period. The PLGO 2001 reforms were embedded in the tehsil municipal administration (TMA) selection criteria and were supported through municipal management capacity-building initiatives to ensure sustainability of investments. Due to the lack of political will and weak capacities of the implementing agencies, however, the implementation of the reforms and municipal management activities was marginal.

Project Number: 23213-013
Project Name: Southern Punjab Basic Urban Services Project
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Delay in acquisition of the required land and award of contracts without implementation of resettlement plans impeded implementation and caused premature loan closure. Efforts are needed to built safeguard capacities within countries to implement and within ADB to supervise, guide, and monitor safeguard compliance. To check against safeguard-related delays, safeguard plans and their implementation should be part of a project readiness filter.

Project Number: 23213-013
Project Name: Southern Punjab Basic Urban Services Project
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The community participation in design and planning subprojects was minimal. The engagement with communities was mainly through social organizers and some council members, who were not directly related to mainstream implementation of the subproject, which was one of the key reasons for weak participation. Community participation requires their intensive involvement from the design to the implementation stages, through direct interaction with key players responsible for implementation, to build ownership and sustained partnerships.

Project Number: 23213-013
Project Name: Southern Punjab Basic Urban Services Project
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It was envisaged that the tehsil municipal administrations (TMAs) would be assisted in offering opportunities to the private sector in the transport, recycling, and composting of solid waste, municipal slaughterhouses, and wastewater treatment plant operations. However, except for outsourcing slaughterhouse operations, no private sector participation was achieved.

Project Number: 23213-013
Project Name: Southern Punjab Basic Urban Services Project
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This poor performance illustrates the need for the government to adopt a clear strategy on developing the transport sector in general and the sector - s institutions in particular. It has also helped identify areas for future technical assistance - project planning, safeguards monitoring, and project management.

Project Number: 37559-023, 37559-033
Project Name: National Highway Development Sector Investment Program - Project 1
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Implementation issues. The highway improvement project had a realistic time frame that took the implementation issues in Pakistan into account. These include governance, security, and institutional capacity constraints. Although one of the subprojects was delayed by 12 months and project implementation was affected by floods, this did not affect the overall project schedule. All these issues are likely to continue to impact current and future projects. Advance planning and adequate contingencies are essential for efficient project implementation.

Project Number: 37559-023, 37559-033
Project Name: National Highway Development Sector Investment Program - Project 1
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Quality at entry. The institutional strengthening project could have been better designed in more consultation with the executing agency. The lack of understanding within the National Highway Authority (NHA) on the benefits of project, the delays in procuring the consultants, and the change in their terms of reference indicate the lack of ownership for policy reforms and institutional strengthening within the NHA. This contributed to the poor performance of the project.

Project Number: 37559-023, 37559-033
Project Name: National Highway Development Sector Investment Program - Project 1
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More careful assessment of the capacity of the executing and implementing agencies should have been made as such programs need to be driven by the borrower and not by ADB or consultants.

Project Number: 36057-013, 36057-023
Project Name: Punjab Resource Management Program
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Lesson
Improve project implementation performance.

Project Number: 37559-023, 37559-033
Project Name: National Highway Development Sector Investment Program - Project 1
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More attention should be given to the executing agency’s implementation ability and its commitment to and ownership of the project. The selection of consultants should have been anchored on better assessments their previous performance.

Project Number: 32058-013
Project Name: Road Sector Development Program
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Lesson
No new lessons

Project Number: 38458-013
Project Name: Infrastructure Development
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