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No additional lesson.

Project Number: 39176-033
Project Name: Road Network Development Program (Project 2)
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Need for clear identification of the role of the project management consultant. The expected role of the project management consultant for the investment program was unclear in the beginning, and the original terms of reference did not properly define the tasks and deliverables of each expert, which resulted in considerable refinements to the terms of reference during implementation. The roles and responsibilities should have been properly defined during project preparation.

Project Number: 41121-023
Project Name: CAREC Transport Corridor 1 (Zhambyl Oblast Section) Investment Program - Tranche 1
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Need for realistic cost estimates. During implementation it was realized that costs for civil works and consulting services had been overestimated, and that contingencies were excessive, which resulted in cancellation of 33.8% of the loan proceeds. Furthermore, various changes in scopes and designs were required to accommodate the geological conditions and needs of local populations, which had not been identified at design stage.

Project Number: 41121-023
Project Name: CAREC Transport Corridor 1 (Zhambyl Oblast Section) Investment Program - Tranche 1
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Need for further improvement of the executing agency's project management capacity. Inadequate knowledge on the part of Ministry of Transport and Communications and Committee for Roads relating to safeguards and procurement, and a lack of staff with appropriate expertise were major factors affecting smooth project implementation, and ultimately resulted in stakeholder complaints.

Project Number: 41121-023
Project Name: CAREC Transport Corridor 1 (Zhambyl Oblast Section) Investment Program - Tranche 1
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The project supported the One Health concept, which emphasizes the links between animal health and human health and emerging animal and human diseases. One Health provided a platform for unprecedented integration of animal, human and ecosystem health issues to fight the threat of avian influenza. The systematic collaboration of technical agencies across disciplines, such as FAO (veterinarians) and WHO (medical doctors) and civil society organizations (community health workers) supported by the project has promoted this concept since the beginning of the project.

Project Number: 39662-012
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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ADB's high-level steering committee demonstrated ADB's institutional support, which enhanced coordination between development partners. The committee, comprising the heads of all regional departments and the Strategy and Policy Department and chaired by the director general of RSDD, provided prompt policy guidance and expedited decisions and actions. It also ensured that the needs of the countries were ascertained and that they had adequate access to project resources.

Project Number: 39662-012
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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ADB was able to use its convening power effectively because it had the necessary in-house technical expertise. Public health experts on ADB's staff with knowledge of emerging infectious diseases were involved in designing and implementing the project. This in-house expertise made the dialogue with the technical and regional agencies to strengthen regional collaboration within and across the animal health and human health sectors possible.

Project Number: 39662-012
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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Each new outbreak of disease confronts projects such as this one, as well as the implementing partners and global community, with a fresh challenge, because its early spread outpaces the gathering of scientific evidence needed to formulate containment policies. Each successive outbreak is followed by an initial opaque period characterized by a frustrating lack of scientific evidence on which to base policies and technical guidance.

Project Number: 39662-012
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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The rapid launch and accelerated implementation of the project made necessary by the threat that avian influenza would become a pandemic made it difficult to define verifiable indicators for a number of the outputs under the regional capacity building and regional coordination components. A mid-term review of the project would have facilitated a review and updating of the design and monitoring framework.

Project Number: 39662-012
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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A thorough funds disbursement analysis should have been conducted during project implementation to determinesufficiency or insufficiency of funds from all sources to finance all project components. While the actual cost for theproject civil works sections increased by 50%, the project still ended with unutilized loan proceeds of $9.65 million (Loan 2205) and $1.40 million (Loan 2206 [Special Funds]). These were more than sufficient to continue implementing the local roads component estimated to cost $3.8 million, of which $3.0 million was to be funded from the loan.

Project Number: 35457-013
Project Name: East–West Highway Improvement Project
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Project Number: 35087-013
Project Name: Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Project
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Project Number: 34234-013
Project Name: Rural Area Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project
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The project constructed a two-lane road. Subsequent to the start of the project, the government decided to widen the road to four lanes by constructing another two-lane road alongside the project road. The widening works are scheduled for completion by December 2013. The ADB-financed two-lane road was completed in December 2012.

Project Number: 39176-033
Project Name: Road Network Development Program (Project 2)
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Realistic estimation of project and contract duration is important. Inclement weather seriously hampered physical progress in project implementation, especially from August 2011 to February 2012. The contractor had difficulty coping with it, which significantly delayed the completion of works. A more realistic timeframe for implementing a road project should be formulated allowing for unpredictable local weather conditions and other contingencies so that resources can be deployed effectively and efficiently.

Project Number: 39176-033
Project Name: Road Network Development Program (Project 2)
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More robust due diligence is needed during project design and formulation to enable the closest possible cost estimates and to set aside enough resources to cover contingencies. This can save considerable time. The scope of the ADB-financed East-West Highway Improvement Project, approved in 2005, included two sections of the east-west highway

Project Number: 39176-033
Project Name: Road Network Development Program (Project 2)
Report Date: