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Need for extra effort focused on project preparation, especially in conducting sufficient assessment of the prospects for strategy and policy harmonization in areas that could potentially gain from collective action and regional cooperation.

Project Number: 37449-013
Project Name: Pacific Region: Establishment of the Pacific Aviation Safety Office Project
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Given that multiple streams of funding for HIV/AIDS were already available, it may have been more efficient for ADB to work in partnership with another donor who had more experience and technical expertise in HIV/AIDS.

Project Number: 38599-022
Project Name: HIV/AIDS Prevention and Capacity Development in the Pacific
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Support to HIV/AIDs should have been considered relative to other health issues in the Pacific. At the time of project design it would have been interesting to know what the main causes of death in the Pacific were, and where AIDS stood in relation to these.

Project Number: 38599-022
Project Name: HIV/AIDS Prevention and Capacity Development in the Pacific
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Investment in service provision in agriculture as an economic catalyst. This evaluation identified that post-project impact included additional benefits that had emerged from the catalytic effect of the pilot project’s initiatives. The introduction of a contracting mechanism generated capacity within the provincial government to engage more with the private sector. This resulted in other initiatives such as trade fairs for local producers, use of service providers for other agriculture sector activities, and use of improved recruitment processes in other sectors.

Project Number: 31647-013
Project Name: Smallholder Support Services Pilot Project
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Participatory planning provided a strong foundation for local development activities. The PRAP process was widely accepted by the targeted population. It was an effective mechanism for identifying required services but also served to identify local development needs. These included the formation of producer groups for higher level production, consolidation, and marketing. In addition, it led to broader economic support by local leaders for other requirements such as infrastructure and access to inputs.

Project Number: 31647-013
Project Name: Smallholder Support Services Pilot Project
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The trust fund mechanism facilitated flexibility. Prior to the pilot project, agricultural service provision suffered from bureaucratic delays that were not appropriate to the seasonal and market requirements for agricultural development. The trust fund modality allowed an accountable and responsive mechanism that is being continued and valued by the provincial DALs and service providers.

Project Number: 31647-013
Project Name: Smallholder Support Services Pilot Project
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The contracting approach has improved the access of smallholder farmers to agricultural support services and has strengthened the institutional capacities of the national and provincial DALs and support services providers in implementing contractual service delivery. The approach has gained acceptance with and beyond the project stakeholders. Other provinces and development agencies have already replicated the support services provider model.

Project Number: 31647-013
Project Name: Smallholder Support Services Pilot Project
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Consolidation of the private sector contracting process. The success of the pilot project approach provides a means to improve access to agricultural support services across PNG. More could have been done to capture the learning from the pilot activities and extend them nationwide in PNG. With replication of the pilot project and further devolution to provincial and district DAL's institutions, programs, and budgets, there is potential to improve agricultural quality, quantity, and local economic development.

Project Number: 31647-013
Project Name: Smallholder Support Services Pilot Project
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All civil works project loans need to be delegated to ADB's country resident mission at the earliest date, to ensure closer monitoring, so that where necessary, monthly review meetings can be held with Executing Agency to monitor performance against monthly agreed targets set at prior monthly meetings. This monthly monitoring approach should be mandatory for projects experiencing significant implementation and disbursement delays.

Project Number: 32124-013, 32124-023
Project Name: Road Maintenance and Upgrading (Sector) Project
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A rigorous assessment of an Executing Agency's capacity to undertake technical, financial, economic, safeguards and governance evaluation of subprojects needs to be conducted during project formulation. Project preparatory technical assistance report is to include a section or appendix on the Executing Agency 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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Separating the engineering consultant roles between (i) design and supervision and (ii) implementation support needs to be carefully assessed during project design. When such division of responsibility is included in the project design, the design and supervision consultants need to be appointed first to avoid the project performance problems.

Project Number: 32124-013, 32124-023
Project Name: Road Maintenance and Upgrading (Sector) Project
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Government counterpart funding for similar projects needs to be secured upfront, at least for the initial years with firmer guarantees for subsequent years, and paid into a separate project account. Subprojects need to be duly appraised, estimates prepared and approved, at least prior to Loan Effectiveness. Subproject preparations must reach 90% completion at the time of project preparatory technical assistance and 100% prior to loan effectiveness. This could be made as - effectiveness' criteria.

Project Number: 32124-013, 32124-023
Project Name: Road Maintenance and Upgrading (Sector) Project
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To avoid implementation delays, project management units need to be established in advance, with appropriate personnel and advance capacity training provided to such personnel. Establishment of project management unit and the engagement at least 90% of the project management unit full time staff is made as condition for loan effectiveness.

Project Number: 32124-013, 32124-023
Project Name: Road Maintenance and Upgrading (Sector) Project
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Expedite Withdrawal Application processing by reducing processing time and involving ADB in checking the claim before the Engineer issues the payment certificate. One way of overcoming this issue is to ensure that counterpart funding allocation into the project account needs to be made as conditions for ADB's disbursement.

Project Number: 32124-013, 32124-023
Project Name: Road Maintenance and Upgrading (Sector) Project
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Most importantly, the government, Department of Works and the development partners need to agree on adequate levels of maintenance funding necessary for the sector and ensure that they are provided into a separate account at the beginning of the year to implement a properly designed maintenance program. The amount to be committed by the Government/ Department of Works needs to be clearly mentioned in the Report and Recommendations of the President and covenanted in the loan agreement.

Project Number: 32124-013, 32124-023
Project Name: Road Maintenance and Upgrading (Sector) Project
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