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Support cannot be directed to the most vulnerable in a crisis in the absence of a social protection system that can be utilized or adapted for this purpose—which provides an additional reason for working with developing member countries to establish and strengthen such systems.

Project Number: 54346-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Rapid Response Program
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Ensuring that an acceptable cost-sharing arrangement is in place at the outset, prior to project launch, can help minimize project risks. The rural infrastructure component comprising 80% of total actual project cost was not achieved largely as the LGUs were unable to raise the required counterpart contributions. Moreover, it is essential that appropriate due diligence and risk assessment are undertaken and that risk mitigation measures concerning the financial capability of participating local governments are identified at the outset.

Project Number: 37749-013
Project Name: Agrarian Reform Communities Project II
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Project implementation highlights the importance of increased accountability and ownership by all stakeholders in achieving the project’s intended outcome. This, along with a well-designed capacity building intervention for implementing agencies, would help facilitate timely implementation and achievement of project results. Complex projects with many components and a wide geographical coverage require a high level of government commitment and ownership.

Project Number: 37749-013
Project Name: Agrarian Reform Communities Project II
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Consistent guidance and support from ADB are necessary to ensure effective project monitoring and evaluation.

Project Number: 37749-013
Project Name: Agrarian Reform Communities Project II
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Capacity building of farming communities requires not just training but also the provision of agricultural inputs to encourage their adoption of high-yielding agricultural practices and technologies.

Project Number: 37749-013
Project Name: Agrarian Reform Communities Project II
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Inadequate or inappropriate government counterpart funding arrangements can impede project implementation, making it important for ADB to address this risk through thorough due diligence.

Project Number: 37749-013
Project Name: Agrarian Reform Communities Project II
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Agrarian reform and poverty reduction are complex development goals requiring carefully designed multisectoral interventions.

Project Number: 37749-013
Project Name: Agrarian Reform Communities Project II
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Project staff training and engagement of full-time, qualified specialists throughout the project period are important to ensure project compliance to ADB safeguard requirements.

Project Number: 37749-013
Project Name: Agrarian Reform Communities Project II
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Partnership with other government agencies, civil society, and the private sector augments project resources and ability to achieve results.

Project Number: 37749-013
Project Name: Agrarian Reform Communities Project II
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The economic analyses, specifically on EIRR calculations, must present in full detail in the PCRs the methodology and assumptions used; otherwise, the appropriateness of the economic analysis cannot be assessed.

Project Number: 40173-023
Project Name: Highlands Region Road Improvement Investment Program-Project 1
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Given PNG’s institutional capacity constraints and the difficulties in adequately preparing projects for ADB financing and project implementation, the MFF modality may not be appropriate at this time.

Project Number: 40173-023
Project Name: Highlands Region Road Improvement Investment Program-Project 1
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Valid control groups should also be identified to the extent possible to measure benefits attributable to the project.

Project Number: 33276-013
Project Name: Integrated Coastal Resources Management Project
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It is important to have a clear results chain logic at design in order to extract valuable lessons from the project.

Project Number: 33276-013
Project Name: Integrated Coastal Resources Management Project
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Adopting a phased approach in one or two provinces, which could then be scaled up to other areas, would avoid wide geographical dispersion and the challenges of implementing and coordinating activities.

Project Number: 33276-013
Project Name: Integrated Coastal Resources Management Project
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Conductingan in-depth context and institutional analysis up front is important to the design and allocation of project resources .

Project Number: 33276-013
Project Name: Integrated Coastal Resources Management Project
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