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Lesson
While it provides the benefit of flexibility (i.e., deferring subprograms wherein the program design cannot be fully defined at appraisal), care must be taken to maximize the achievement of critical objectives even if ongoing subprograms are canceled.

Project Number: 37752-013
Project Name: Power Sector Development Program
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No additional lessons

Project Number: 30480-013
Project Name: Metro Manila Air Quality Improvement Sector Development Program
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Placing support teams, including consultants, in the regions and zonal project offices is critical to providing LGUs guidance and technical assistance when and where needed. Careful consideration is required regarding the relative mix between executing agency personnel and consultants to ensure the executing agencies are adequately resourced with the appropriate technical skills so as to retain project experience within the agency after a project is completed.

Project Number: 30552-013
Project Name: Infrastructure for Rural Productivity Enhancement Sector Project
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The project demonstrated that successful local government unit (LGU)-led, demand-driven, decentralized implementation is a viable delivery mechanism for the planning, development, and management of rural infrastructure. Examination of the reasons for the delayed start yield valuable lessons for future projects.

Project Number: 30552-013
Project Name: Infrastructure for Rural Productivity Enhancement Sector Project
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The project has highlighted the need to provide ongoing operation and maintenance (O&M) capacity building support and to monitor actual O&M implementation after loan closure. Future projects should incorporate provision for executing agencies to establish O&M technical support teams conducting biannual infrastructure O&M inspections and providing ongoing training to LGUs on O&M practices after project completion.

Project Number: 30552-013
Project Name: Infrastructure for Rural Productivity Enhancement Sector Project
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Slow funds liquidation results in inadequate funds availability, slowing implementation. Future projects should ensure that seamless, efficient, and simple funds disbursement processes are established that satisfy appropriate procurement and financial audit requirements. Future projects should consider (i) direct payment of contractors by ADB; (ii) making imprest account levels appropriate to the funds flows anticipated; and (iii) simplified disbursement procedures and documentation requirements, preferably through the executing agency.

Project Number: 30552-013
Project Name: Infrastructure for Rural Productivity Enhancement Sector Project
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The financial impact of projects on local governments needs to be carefully assessed. It seems clear in retrospect that the province could never have been expected to meet the financial requirements of the project—to invest $12 million of its own resources, and to pay high interest on $14 million borrowed from Mindanao Development Fund. The lesson from this is that, unless viable options can be found for funding local investments, a project should not proceed.

Project Number: 24076
Project Name: Bukidnon Integrated Area Development Project
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Participation of beneficiaries at an early stage of subproject preparation will enhance the chance of success where beneficiaries are to assume control of operation and maintenance (O&M).

Project Number: 27245-013
Project Name: Southern Philippines Irrigation Sector Project
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A realistic evaluation of institutional capacities is needed during project preparation for the tasks expected of them. This is particularly important with the proposed downsizing of the NIA that is currently taking place.

Project Number: 27245-013
Project Name: Southern Philippines Irrigation Sector Project
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Further capacity building must be undertaken in procurement and bid evaluation if provincial and regional procurement is to be continued in similar future projects. While there is a certain autonomy in regional centers, the central government and ADB should adopt a stronger procurement monitoring role, if only to prevent repetition of previous mistakes.

Project Number: 27245-013
Project Name: Southern Philippines Irrigation Sector Project
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The role of local government units must be understood, given their limited resources and their primary function as a political institution. While they remain an important inclusion from a lobbying perspective, they cannot adopt roles beyond the level for which they have human and financial resource capacity.

Project Number: 27245-013
Project Name: Southern Philippines Irrigation Sector Project
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Quality subproject feasibility and detailed engineering designs, based on solid geological and topographic surveys, are necessary prerequisites to successful irrigation and road subprojects. Without these, unachievable targets will be established that cause subprojects to be assessed less successful.

Project Number: 27245-013
Project Name: Southern Philippines Irrigation Sector Project
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Beneficiary contributions must be set at a level that reflects their capacity to pay, and it is considered inappropriate to overload farmers with higher costs where poverty remains an issue.

Project Number: 27245-013
Project Name: Southern Philippines Irrigation Sector Project
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Stronger links with technical support and input supplies such as credit should be part of the training of irrigator associations during subproject implementation. While attempts at coordinating technical support were envisaged, much of this came down to personal relationships, and that varied widely between subprojects.

Project Number: 27245-013
Project Name: Southern Philippines Irrigation Sector Project
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Need for improved and expeditious processing of approvals both within ADB business processes and within the government to avoid delays to approval of variation requests and other procurement matters.

Project Number: 30551-013
Project Name: Mindanao Basic Urban Services Sector Project
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