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Lesson
Building systems and organizational capacity is critical to the success of social assistance programs. Moving beyond a pilot to a national CCTprogram requires establishing project management structures, robust systems for information management, accountability mechanisms, and significant human resources. Despite impressive growth, the Philippines' CCT program faced challenges as it expanded nationally.

Project Number: 43407-013
Project Name: Social Protection Support Project
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Institutional and legal frameworks help ensure program and funding sustainability, continuity across political regimes, adequacy and predictability of benefits, and accountability during budget processes. Importantly, these frameworks should provide sufficient flexibility to allow programs to adapt, particularly during times of crises such as COVID-19, and to improve based on socioeconomic trends. For instance,a key feature of the 4Ps law provides for a mechanism to periodically review and adjust benefit levels.

Project Number: 43407-013
Project Name: Social Protection Support Project
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Local economic development requires local governments to expand their service delivery to include the business community and identify opportunities to better serve the private sector.

Project Number: 44253-013
Project Name: Local Government Finance and Fiscal Decentralization Reform Program - Subprogram 1
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The use of and benefits from enhanced tools and regulations can be maximized by the provision of appropriate incentives.

Project Number: 44253-013
Project Name: Local Government Finance and Fiscal Decentralization Reform Program - Subprogram 1
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Technical assistance (TA) and performance incentives can boost the potential for success of reform programs.

Project Number: 44253-013
Project Name: Local Government Finance and Fiscal Decentralization Reform Program - Subprogram 1
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No new lessons

Project Number: 43396-013, 43396-014
Project Name: Increasing Competitiveness for Inclusive Growth Program (Subprograms 1 and 2)
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The DMF should provide short-, medium-, and long-term indicators to help ensure that progress is being made as planned.

Project Number: 47337-001
Project Name: Emergency Assistance for Relief And Recovery from Typhoon Yolanda
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Risk management framework is vital in mitigating the high-risk aspects of the project. These could be avoided by specifically monitoring those risks that remain high. This need to be articulated in the RRP so that the borrower reports back on these high-risk areas, and to satisfy the ADB concern that appropriate monitoring is occurring.

Project Number: 47337-001
Project Name: Emergency Assistance for Relief And Recovery from Typhoon Yolanda
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Experimenting new strategies with pilot projects is essential for proper understanding and building stakeholder support for potential policy reforms.

Project Number: 43396-014, 43396-013
Project Name: Increasing Competitiveness for Inclusive Growth Program (Subprograms 1 and 2): Program Completion Report
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Even if funds were available, delays in the implementation of the CRRP were inevitable because existing government policies obstructed smooth implementation of the CRRP programs, projects, and activities (PPAs). Examples of such policies are procurement laws and land use policies. Some policies may have to be reviewed to meet post- disaster recovery related needs, and other mechanisms established to speed up post-disaster public procurement.

Project Number: 47337-001
Project Name: Emergency Assistance for Relief and Recovery from Typhoon Yolanda
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Thorough understanding of the capacity and readiness of the executing and implementing agencies along with proper timing and sequencing are imperative for reform success.

Project Number: 43396-014, 43396-013
Project Name: Increasing Competitiveness for Inclusive Growth Program (Subprograms 1 and 2): Program Completion Report
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Given that the government planned to withdraw the loan proceeds based on its financing needs to support CRRP implementation, and the lack of a definite schedule for disbursements, close coordination between ADB and the government was crucial. This ensured ADB's timely release of funds when needed.

Project Number: 47337-001
Project Name: Emergency Assistance for Relief and Recovery from Typhoon Yolanda
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Policy-based programs can achieve better outcome through carefully sequenced high-impact crosscutting structural policy reforms along with a set of deeper sector-specific structural policy reforms.

Project Number: 43396-014, 43396-013
Project Name: Increasing Competitiveness for Inclusive Growth Program (Subprograms 1 and 2): Program Completion Report
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Processing of the emergency loan before the government finalized its Yolanda Recovery and Rehabilitation Plan (YRRP, called the Comprehensive Rehabilitation and Recovery Plan or CRRP in its final form) provided the government with the certainty of funding, and ensured the effectiveness of CRRP implementation. ADB worked with the government in the design and monitoring framework of the CRRP.

Project Number: 47337-001
Project Name: Emergency Assistance for Relief and Recovery from Typhoon Yolanda
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Continuous policy dialogues and developments are crucial for advancing and sustaining the implemented reforms. The program accomplished this through periodic policy reviews, timely policy dialogue, providing appropriate technical assistance, being responsive to the changes of macroeconomic circumstances and government priorities, and effective coordination with other development partners.

Project Number: 43396-014, 43396-013
Project Name: Increasing Competitiveness for Inclusive Growth Program (Subprograms 1 and 2): Program Completion Report
Report Date: