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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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No new lessons

Project Number: 38458-013
Project Name: Infrastructure Development
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Lesson
For ADB to apply its Safeguards Policy Statement (2009) in cognizance of national laws.

Project Number: 37559-023, 37559-033
Project Name: National Highway Development Sector Investment Program - Project 1
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No new lessons

Project Number: 32023-013, 32023-023
Project Name: Access to Justice Program
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Experience with the implementing agencies suggests that regular and persistent communication with ADB staff in Manila, with implementing agencies, and the resident mission are critical to keeping the program on track.

Project Number: 36155-013
Project Name: Private Participation in Infrastructure Program
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Lesson
Establishment of PPI frameworks needs to be accompanied by the development of 'pathfinder projects' that may be prepackaged in line with good international practice, and protected from special interest interference.

Project Number: 36155-013
Project Name: Private Participation in Infrastructure Program
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ADB program designs should include a more strategic approach to marketing the benefits of PPI frameworks to the public, the private sector, and government.

Project Number: 36155-013
Project Name: Private Participation in Infrastructure Program
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Outputs that are prerequisites for other outputs need to have a technical assistance dedicated to them upfront.

Project Number: 36155-013
Project Name: Private Participation in Infrastructure Program
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Where a large capacity-building component precedes project preparation, reviews by ADB should be more frequent. The consultants should also produce verifiable and detailed reports on progress and staff training. This will allow a more timely response to problems by both ADB and the Borrower.

Project Number: 38458-013
Project Name: Infrastructure Development
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When projects cross ministerial boundaries�as was the case with the national and provincial stakeholders in the water resources sector�there must be a clear commitment at the design stage to avoid disputes. Otherwise, such projects should be avoided altogether.

Project Number: 38458-013
Project Name: Infrastructure Development
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While the project-preparation facilities made sense, the TA loan itself was spread too thinly. The funds were dispersed across three sectors, and were handled by numerous agencies managing subprojects in many locations. This made coordination a challenge right from the outset, especially given the absence of an experienced and capable local coordination team. It did not work. In retrospect, the multi-sector design of the TA was wrong, and approval should not be given for similar TA loans in the future. The important lesson learned here is to restrict loans to one sector at a time.

Project Number: 38458-013
Project Name: Infrastructure Development
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ADB should have restructured its technical assistance (TA) loan much earlier, taking into account two events: (i) the approval of new multitranche financing facilities (MFFs) with project-preparation components that duplicated some of the TA's work, and (ii) dramatic changes in the economy that made some subprojects irrelevant and/or unfundable. The review missions reported on consultant services and their performance, and they did propose a major restructuring of the TA over time.

Project Number: 38458-013
Project Name: Infrastructure Development
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Lesson
The Planning and Development Division's (PDD lack of capacity to assist the implementing agencies delayed the issuance of consultant mandates, thus slowing down work on some priority subprojects. The choice of the PDD as the executing agency was a mistake. The PDD lacked qualified staff,, access, and a track record. The setting up of new units to manage consultancy contracts does not work and should not have been proposed in the first place.

Project Number: 38458-013
Project Name: Infrastructure Development
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Weak capacity of project staff results in procedural lapses, possible violations of the loan agreement, and slow implementation. Moreover, stringent internal audit controls and close monitoring of expenditures bring more transparency in financial transactions.

Project Number: 36654-013
Project Name: Restructuring of the Technical Education and Vocational Training System Project (Balochistan)
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