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Lesson
The government’s inconsistent support to the law enforcement agents in the province, ineffective project grievance redress mechanisms, and lack off effective coordination and consultations within the subnational levels of governments and within BDA to address environment and social issues resulted in landowners allegedly acting unlawfully and harming a project team member.

Project Number: 42135-013
Project Name: Pilot Border Trade and Investment Development Project
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Lesson
An important project impact relied upon the government to implement specific investment policies through DCI, as well as a telecommunication solution for WSP to provide an environment that would enable WSP’s development into a dynamic growth-center for PNG. Inactivity on these commitments substantially delayed and lost impetus in the achievement of potential project benefits.

Project Number: 42135-013
Project Name: Pilot Border Trade and Investment Development Project
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Lesson
The government frequently fails to meet their timely commitment of project funding assumed at appraisal. However, it is difficult to attach conditionality of ADB funding to the timely contribution of government funding. Therefore, the government’s counterpart shares have been reduced for PNG projects.

Project Number: 42135-013
Project Name: Pilot Border Trade and Investment Development Project
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A key issue was the abolition of BDA at a crucial stage of project benefit creation and realization. Although the project had completed implementation of the civil works and the consultancy services contracts, the creation and realization of project benefits has not been achieved due to the failure of the borrower to utilize the project outputs. The longer the border administration complex buildings remain unoccupied, the more difficult it will be to re-energize the commercial sector in WSP and generate the anticipated project benefits.

Project Number: 42135-013
Project Name: Pilot Border Trade and Investment Development Project
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Lesson
Many PNG projects have poor compliance with DMF monitoring due to (i) lack of undertaking baseline studies, (ii) limited measurements of DMF target progress during implementation, and (iii) a lack of BDA who draft and complete a project PCR prior to loan closing. ADB review missions need to monitor these compliance issues more closely and require submission of an updated DMF table prior to each review mission.

Project Number: 42135-013
Project Name: Pilot Border Trade and Investment Development Project
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Lesson
Border housing compliance with WSP building and electrical installation standards as well as the apparent substandard quality of this housing highlights the importance of the quality of the construction supervision consultants and BDA’s ability to monitor and manage contracts.

Project Number: 42135-013
Project Name: Pilot Border Trade and Investment Development Project
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Lesson
As the project aimed to achieve development impacts in WSP, BDA and PMO should have had a greater presence in WSP, and a greater involvement with the WSPA as the project was delivered. The location of BDA headquarters in Port Moresby may have limited the rate of development of WSP into a dynamic growth center for PNG.

Project Number: 42135-013
Project Name: Pilot Border Trade and Investment Development Project
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Lesson
This reflects one of the outputs being delivered by this TA project and how it was undertaken. The contribution of this TA project in knowledge building, especially in building the capacity of DMCs was not highlighted.

Project Number: 48240-001
Project Name: Information and Communication Technology for Development Initiative Facility in Asia and the Pacific
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Lesson
Other lessons that can be used when replicating or scaling up some aspects of this TA project were not mentioned. Based on the guidelines, replication occurs when results of the TA project can be copied in other areas. Evidence of scaling up can involve mainstreaming the TA project process into wider development pathway.

Project Number: 48240-001
Project Name: Information and Communication Technology for Development Initiative Facility in Asia and the Pacific
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Lesson
Due to the nature of the TA project’s deliverables and increasing demands from operational departments, the TA project had to be made flexible. Hence, it was not limited to the narrowly pre-defined areas and maximized the use of TA project resource as a facility

Project Number: 48240-001
Project Name: Information and Communication Technology for Development Initiative Facility in Asia and the Pacific
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Lesson
Better assessment on the demand from operational departments was deemed needed as well. The change in scope kept the TA project relevant despite the fast-paced nature of the environment it was trying to address.3 A change in scope may be ideal for ICT-related TA projects as the technology advances can move quite quickly.

Project Number: 48240-001
Project Name: Information and Communication Technology for Development Initiative Facility in Asia and the Pacific
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Lesson
This could still be improved by providing actual experiences involving operational departments that contributed to the improvement of the TA’s implementation.

Project Number: 50315-001
Project Name: Facilitating Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Foreign Direct Investment Flows: An ASEAN+6 Case Study
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Lesson
This is a repetition of the previous lesson. It could have been improved by highlighting the importance of stakeholders’ role in regional trade integration, supported by actual experiences.

Project Number: 50315-001
Project Name: Facilitating Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Foreign Direct Investment Flows: An ASEAN+6 Case Study
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Lesson
The TCR could have mentioned whether or not governments would be allocating resources or other development partners would be funding projects that would contribute to the achievement of the TA project’s expected impact.

Project Number: 50315-001
Project Name: Facilitating Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Foreign Direct Investment Flows: An ASEAN+6 Case Study
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Lesson
This is essential for all kinds of projects. The TCR could have cited specific instances where coordination with the resident missions produced favorable results at design and planning stage.

Project Number: 50315-001
Project Name: Facilitating Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Foreign Direct Investment Flows: An ASEAN+6 Case Study
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