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Timely reviews, earlier solutions, lower costs. A major project redesign followed a midterm review. While the changes contributed significantly to the success of the project, this review occurred came fairly late - in 2005, compared with the original closing date of 2006. Had this review taken place earlier, the project might have been able to achieve its outcomes earlier and at lower cost.

Project Number: 32472-013
Project Name: Microfinance and Employment Project
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Not housing the PIU within the executing agency reduced oversight and transparency.

Project Number: 32472-013
Project Name: Microfinance and Employment Project
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Efficient reporting and data collection essential. The project implementing unit (PIU) did not allocate sufficient time to reporting and data collection during implementation, which impacted negatively on the ability of ADB and the microfinance steering committee to administer the project effectively.

Project Number: 32472-013
Project Name: Microfinance and Employment Project
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Need to undertake project supervision more rigorously to ensure that project implementation is on schedule and that ADB loan funds are used in full for the intended purposes before the planned date for closing the loan. Although the Papua New Guinea Resident Mission (PNRM) was formally established in 2003, which was almost midway in the project’s implementation, it was not indicated in the PCR whether PNRM support was sought for project supervision.

Project Number: 32184-013
Project Name: Rehabilitation of the Maritime Navigation Aids System Project
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Strong management and strategic thinking are prerequisites for establishing a sound and viable institution. The early management of PASO was weak. More support was needed to help it put necessary systems in place earlier in the project period. Some member states expressed the need to further improve financial management in terms of adequacy and transparency. The PASO council has the potential to provide needed support through its finance and technical committees but has not yet fully leveraged those capabilities.

Project Number: 37449-013
Project Name: Establishment of the Pacific Aviation Safety Office Project (Pacific Region)
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Technical cooperation has required the use of best-practice systems and highly experienced professional staff from more developed countries. The development of regional expertise will take many years and require additional resources, if Pacific developing member countries (DMCs) expect to localize these positions. This environment requires flexibility in PASO staffing and structure to enable adjustments.

Project Number: 37449-013
Project Name: Establishment of the Pacific Aviation Safety Office Project (Pacific Region)
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The project is unique among ADB interventions in the Pacific. It involved setting up a regional organization from scratch, using a regional loan guaranteed by four Pacific Aviation Safety Office (PASO) members. While the concept was innovative, the first lesson is that a regional project can raise a variety of new issues. Inception was delayed by lengthy procedures for parliamentary approval of two of the guarantees. As of 2011, there is a risk that the organization could eventually fail unless a secure funding basis can be established in the near future.

Project Number: 37449-013
Project Name: Establishment of the Pacific Aviation Safety Office Project (Pacific Region)
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Institutional lessons arise from the need for cooperation on the part of governments, airlines, and international agencies in reforming and harmonizing the regulatory and legislative environment. ICAO has already recognized PASO as a legitimate international organization and will exercise quality control through the regular Universal Safety Oversight Audit Program and Universal Security Audit Program in each country. Governments need to ensure continuing cooperation between aviation ministries and other ministries responsible for drafting and enacting legislation and for providing finance.

Project Number: 37449-013
Project Name: Establishment of the Pacific Aviation Safety Office Project (Pacific Region)
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The concept of regional cooperation in technically demanding sectors is sound. The project concept of developing the coordinated provision of technical services to small and poorly resourced states has been proven. The project has helped develop similar regional activities in Asia and Africa by demonstrating feasibility to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and other international organizations.

Project Number: 37449-013
Project Name: Establishment of the Pacific Aviation Safety Office Project (Pacific Region)
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The introduction of new aviation systems into regional and national organizations needs to be subjected to in-depth systems analysis to ensure that the systems are appropriate to the environment. Also, it is necessary to provide sufficient, continued capacity development and training to retain the use of the system and improve it.

Project Number: 37449-013
Project Name: Establishment of the Pacific Aviation Safety Office Project (Pacific Region)
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Projects that pilot test new approaches need to be designed in a way that they are simple, well focused, and flexible enough to accommodate appropriate changes. In pilot projects, it is essential to have a capacity building component, especially in contexts where weak implementation capacity exists.

Project Number: 31647-013
Project Name: Smallholder Support Services Pilot Project [Loan 1652-PNG]
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To effectively monitor and evaluate the project, the MIS need to be installed and operating early in the project schedule.

Project Number: 31647-013
Project Name: Smallholder Support Services Pilot Project [Loan 1652-PNG]
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Inadequate project design undermines project implementation. Good project design is a basic requirement for project success, and inadequate design can prevent project success. In this case, design did not demonstrate adequate technical understanding of the availability of suitable water or the feasibility of its use for water supply and sanitation (WSS) projects in four of the six provincial towns.

Project Number: 31467-013
Project Name: Provincial Towns Water Supply and Sanitation Project
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ADB project supervision and guidance should match a project's complexity and challenges, especially in response to projects at risk. Particularly for a technically complex and nuanced area such as public financial management, ADB project officers should have strong relevant technical backgrounds.

Project Number: 30535-013
Project Name: Financial Management Project
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Lower-cost technologies have significant potential to improve public health. The very high cost of servicing small and isolated towns in PNG through reticulated WSS systems means that lower-cost alternatives should be considered. Water prices have risen and will rise further with the Independent Consumer and Competition Commission's (ICCC) regulatory contract with the Waterboard. This improves the commercial environment for the Waterboard, which it may be able to exploit if it can provide improved services more efficiently.

Project Number: 31467-013
Project Name: Provincial Towns Water Supply and Sanitation Project
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