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The initial delays due to the lack of consistent and timely project review and oversight from ADB during the first 3 years of the project could not be corrected for a long period, during which time civil works progress fell behind completion targets and disbursement was constantly below expectations. In order to mitigate this, frequent review and close supervision and closely monitoring for in-country procurement processes will be required.

Project Number: 32124-013, 32124-023
Project Name: Road Maintenance and Upgrading (Sector) Project
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To ensure efficient contractor performance, local contractor ability and capacity needs to be assessed in advance to determine appropriate contract packaging and apply single step procurement procedures. Project preparatory technical assistance report shall include a section or appendix on the local contracting and consultant capacity assessment and Report and Recommendations of the President is to propose measures to gap the capacity constraints.

Project Number: 32124-013, 32124-023
Project Name: Road Maintenance and Upgrading (Sector) Project
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To facilitate project implementation, Executing Agency need to encourage and apply advanced procurement where possible to engage consultants and initiate procurement activities for subproject contracts early to minimize delays which otherwise result in price escalations. Advance action for procurement and consultant recruitment is made compulsory with the assistance of ADB staff in guiding the Executing Agency's staff.

Project Number: 32124-013, 32124-023
Project Name: Road Maintenance and Upgrading (Sector) Project
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A more effective project management could have avoided, or at least minimized much of the implementation problems related to coordination, conflict resolution, scheduling, and monitoring and reporting. The position of project manager is the bridge between the key policy and decision makers and the people involved in implementing the different activities. Thus, the selection process should ensure that the candidate is able to deal effectively with those at the top and those on the ground.

Project Number: 29637-013
Project Name: Employment-Oriented Skills Development Project
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In addition, core indicators on financial and social performance of participating MFIs needed to be integrated and collected in the monitoring system of the project.

Project Number: 32472-013
Project Name: Microfinance and Employment Project
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During the feasibility study stage, the estimate of consultant inputs is based on the assessment of existing institutional capacity to carry out certain activities. In this project, about $7.2 million worth of international consultants inputs were not used. The absence of such a significant amount of international expertise could have contributed to the project’s underperformance. The lesson here is that before making a decision to cancel consultant inputs, careful consideration should be taken as to its impact on project performance.

Project Number: 29637-013
Project Name: Employment-Oriented Skills Development Project
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Due diligence should be exercised not only in terms of technical factors but institutional, social, financial, and even political factors. While most if not all projects have excellent and even noble intentions and objectives and are extremely relevant to existing problems in the countries they are proposed for, these projects have to be realistic and must be designed considering the inherent problems and issues pertaining to the sector, country, or areas where they will be implemented.

Project Number: 31467-013
Project Name: Provincial Towns Water Supply and Sanitation Project
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Establishing a project steering committee is challenging where separate development partner committees already exist to oversee arrangements for Pacific countries.

Project Number: 38599-022
Project Name: HIV/AIDS Prevention and Capacity Development in the Pacific
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An executing agency's ability to implement project activities within set timeframes is diluted where there is limited PMU capacity, a lack of experience with ADB procedures, and inadequate executive oversight.

Project Number: 38599-022
Project Name: HIV/AIDS Prevention and Capacity Development in the Pacific
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Efforts to strengthen routine surveillance and laboratory capacity will achieve only limited success where health information systems and laboratory services are weak.

Project Number: 38599-022
Project Name: HIV/AIDS Prevention and Capacity Development in the Pacific
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Even if a project is aligned with regional strategies, designs need to incorporate sufficient national consultation and consider country absorptive and technical capacity and commitment.

Project Number: 38599-022
Project Name: HIV/AIDS Prevention and Capacity Development in the Pacific
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National M&E remains a challenge due to lack of capacity and minimal regional support to assist participating DMCs. While regional evaluations of some activities have taken place, they need to focus on impact or outcome indicators rather than on the process of implementation.

Project Number: 38599-022
Project Name: HIV/AIDS Prevention and Capacity Development in the Pacific
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The importance of existing institutional capacity for carrying out changes in the technical aspects of the project design. The risks associated with a change in scope should be fully considered to prevent project failure.

Project Number: 30535-013
Project Name: Financial Management Project
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Match ADB staff skills to specific project needs. When supporting the development of a new industry in a challenging environment, project administration needs to be particularly vigilant and carried out by ADB officers with strong expertise in the area. Stakeholders noted that the performance of ADB improved when staff had expertise in the microfinance sector and were actively involved in the implementation of the project.

Project Number: 32472-013
Project Name: Microfinance and Employment Project
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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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