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Project staff training and engagement of full-time, qualified specialists throughout the project period are important to ensure project compliance to ADB safeguard requirements.

Project Number: 37749-013
Project Name: Agrarian Reform Communities Project II
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Partnership with other government agencies, civil society, and the private sector augments project resources and ability to achieve results.

Project Number: 37749-013
Project Name: Agrarian Reform Communities Project II
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Consistent guidance and support from ADB are necessary to ensure effective project monitoring and evaluation.

Project Number: 37749-013
Project Name: Agrarian Reform Communities Project II
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Capacity building of farming communities requires not just training but also the provision of agricultural inputs to encourage their adoption of high-yielding agricultural practices and technologies.

Project Number: 37749-013
Project Name: Agrarian Reform Communities Project II
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Inadequate or inappropriate government counterpart funding arrangements can impede project implementation, making it important for ADB to address this risk through thorough due diligence.

Project Number: 37749-013
Project Name: Agrarian Reform Communities Project II
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Agrarian reform and poverty reduction are complex development goals requiring carefully designed multisectoral interventions.

Project Number: 37749-013
Project Name: Agrarian Reform Communities Project II
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Coastal resource management projects need to address disaster risks and vulnerability.

Project Number: 33276-013
Project Name: Integrated Coastal Resources Management
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Integrated natural resource management is possible under a devolved governance structure.

Project Number: 33276-013
Project Name: Integrated Coastal Resources Management
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Piloting and a sequential implementation approach may be more favorable for projects requiring multilevel and multistakeholder coordination.

Project Number: 33276-013
Project Name: Integrated Coastal Resources Management
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Project costs need to be based on realistic assumptions.

Project Number: 33276-013
Project Name: Integrated Coastal Resources Management
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Aligning project processing schedules to government planning and budgeting cycles will help minimize startup delays in Asian Development Bank- (ADB) financed projects.

Project Number: 33276-013
Project Name: Integrated Coastal Resources Management
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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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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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