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Project Number: 32499-013
Project Name: Development of Poor Urban Communities Sector Project
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Project Number: 30308-013
Project Name: Pasig River Environmental Management and Rehabilitation Sector Development Program
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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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A master plan for water resource development in each river basin including careful assessment of conflicting responsibilities for regulation, extraction, and approval in the sector is needed for future ADB engagement..

Project Number: 35379-013
Project Name: Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System New Water Source Development Project
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For the AWUAIP, instead of pursuing the ADB multitranche financing facility, the government decided to accept a loan from the Government of the People’s Republic of China. The government is also dealing with many official development assistance partners, and there are grants and loans with better conditions than ADB loans.

Project Number: 35379-013
Project Name: Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System New Water Source Development Project
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Local government units (LGUs) are important as facilitators of housing projects, but should not be overburdened with housing production or housing loans. LGU-driven projects are important and strategic for targeting the urban poor. LGUs can have a crucial role in provision of land, particularly land that has been proclaimed by the President of the Philippines for social housing purposes. However, there needs to be additional innovation to make the urban poor bankable.

Project Number: 32499-013
Project Name: Development of Poor Urban Communities Sector Project
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Microfinance for housing should be encouraged. Housing microfinance is an important long-term development instrument. Microfinance institutions that have clienteles with good reputation as borrowers are best suited to implement such housing microfinance loans.

Project Number: 32499-013
Project Name: Development of Poor Urban Communities Sector Project
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A bigger role for nongovernment organizations (NGOs) can be envisaged. NGOs can borrow from the Developnment Bank of the Philippines if they have sufficient collateral at their disposal. However, few NGOs may have land available for housing, and may consequently rely on partnerships with other stakeholders, such as the local government units or the private sector, to access land for their projects.

Project Number: 32499-013
Project Name: Development of Poor Urban Communities Sector Project
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Private sector developers need to be motivated to prefinance and build social housing schemes. The private sector modality does work if established in tandem with a take-out mechanism from Home Development Mutual Fund (HDMF). While the private sector will only require short-term loans during the construction period (until a scheme is fully sold), it relies on a separate financing mechanism through HMDF or similar other arrangements.

Project Number: 32499-013
Project Name: Development of Poor Urban Communities Sector Project
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Capital grants are attractive, but should only be given as a reward for good performance. In the first years of the project the DILG offered capital grants for eligible subprojects. These were discontinued in 2005 after the cancellation of the DILG's grant source. After that, many LGUs stopped subproject preparation work because of the (perceived high) costs of ADB loans. The commitment and buy-in of LGUs was weak at times. Many LGUs were more oriented toward grants than the lending facility.

Project Number: 30551-013
Project Name: Mindanao Basic Urban Services Sector Project
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Decentralized projects call for a better PPMS. The scattered nature of investments throughout Mindanao created substantial management challenges of reporting and data management. The disparity and decentralized nature of the subprojects should have made it imperative that the project implement a web-based project performance monitoring system (PPMS) instead of employing traditional narrative reporting methods. A web-based PPMS would have facilitated management and supervision.

Project Number: 30551-013
Project Name: Mindanao Basic Urban Services Sector Project
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More strategic and participatory planning is desirable. LGU chief executive officers (CEOs) often selected subprojects and made investment decisions on their own rather than on the basis of strategic local development plans. Although the project assisted some LGUs in formulating comprehensive land use plans, it did not succeed in ensuring that such plans are standard tools for investment planning despite an LBP requirement mandating that LGUs possess annual development plans to qualify for loan approval.

Project Number: 30551-013
Project Name: Mindanao Basic Urban Services Sector Project
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A single executing agency could have simplified implementation. The report and recommendation of the president (RRP) and the loan agreement both established an unnecessary overlap of functions between LBP and the DILG. This could have been avoided through a more straightforward and functional separation of roles: LBP to implement Part A, and the DILG to limit its role to Part B. The existence of two executing agencies under the project should have been avoided.

Project Number: 30551-013
Project Name: Mindanao Basic Urban Services Sector Project
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Revenue-earning subprojects were favored. Many of the implemented subprojects e.g. public markets, public transport terminals, and water supply schemes are good revenue earners or have the potential to be good revenue earners. These subprojects provide essential economic and environmental benefits that will have long-lasting positive impacts. It is expected that most of these investments will be sustainable and will lead to further related investments to expand infrastructure networks.

Project Number: 30551-013
Project Name: Mindanao Basic Urban Services Sector Project
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The value of capacity development. Although not easily measurable in terms of monetary impacts and outcomes, capacity development support made an important contribution to the project. The investment of $6 million through an Nordic Development Fund (NDF) loan to the DILG was an unprecedented engagement in favor of LGUs; this amount was augmented with a substantial in-kind operational counterpart contribution by the DILG.

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