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Actively engaging key government agencies can provide the much-needed oversight and intervention to facilitate the timely and effective resolution of design and implementation issues emerging from project implementation, especially those that ADB will have extremely limited control over. The borrower and executing agencies coordinated with security forces to grant consultants’ permission to enter army-controlled areas, ensure their security and safety, and arrange basic facilities for them. Such facilitation minimized delay in preparatory work.

Project Number: 42254-013
Project Name: Northern Road Connectivity Project
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Delays in land acquisition could bar projects from proceeding with civil works as planned. Because of this experience with contract package (CP) 2, it was decided that at least 50% of the land requirement for C5 will be acquired before contract award. The strategy proved effective in minimizing Implementation delays and should be considered in future projects.

Project Number: 47182-001
Project Name: Southern Road Connectivity Project
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Informing utility agencies of project needs prior to the start of civil works could reduce the time required for utility shifting thus putting the project in a better position to timely meet its Implementation schedule. Early communication may also help to integrate utility agency requirements into road designs, thus ensuring the sustainability of assets.

Project Number: 47182-001
Project Name: Southern Road Connectivity Project
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Procurement usually takes extra time due to process-related issues that can be mitigated by (i) strengthening progress monitoring and quality assurance mechanisms during project preparatory work, including bid document Preparation; (ii) appointing dedicated committees and staff, including a technical evaluation committee for road projects, a procurement committee with enforced deadlines, and a staff in the project management unit to coordinate and manage procurement activities; and (iii) providingCapacity development training for the relevant committee.

Project Number: 47182-001
Project Name: Southern Road Connectivity Project
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Timely and appropriate disclosure of ADB’s audited project financial statements enhances stakeholders' ability to meaningfully engage with ADB and promotes good governance. Timely disclosure of project financial performance needs to be ensured in future projects.

Project Number: 47182-001
Project Name: Southern Road Connectivity Project
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Additional approval required by the Ministry of FInance had caused delays to the overall lending process, despite a central monitoring and approval process which was imperative to maintain consistency and objectivity of the project. However, the same level of oversight and central approval process can be implemented in projects where relevant parties are provided with an online tool to manage documentation and other activities.

Project Number: 50373-002
Project Name: Rooftop Solar Power Generation Project
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Stakeholder expectations and reliance on concessional financing have a negative effect on the market upon completion of the project. Until the loan is fully used up, the market seldom finds innovative methods to improve viability without such concessional conditions. Therefore, by design, the project shall encourage the market to evolve and innovate to sustain without any concessional financing.

Project Number: 50373-002
Project Name: Rooftop Solar Power Generation Project
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Despite the market already being available to cater to the project, the TA intervention resulted in a much smoother implementation that may have been difficult without a TA. Such TA components could improve project effectiveness and the good practices introduced would better the overall market. Thus, similar TA projects are encouraged for greenfield projects of this nature.

Project Number: 50373-002
Project Name: Rooftop Solar Power Generation Project
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The delay in achieving project effectiveness was unforeseen and unwarranted, given the priority requirement of rooftop solar PV systems to meet national policies,

Project Number: 50373-002
Project Name: Rooftop Solar Power Generation Project
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It is important for the project management unit to have local presence and partnerships established in the areas where the project is to be developed, and representatives with local language ability. This will facilitate project design both through local knowledge of existing community needs and also through stronger stakeholder engagement, consultation, and acceptance of the project.

Project Number: 49325-003
Project Name: Northern Province Sustainable Fisheries Development Project
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Integrating the local capacity and existing fishing practices in project design helps in improving the efficacy of project components and approaches. Local fishermen in the Northern Province are not well equipped to take full advantage of large infrastructure such as a fishery harbor. Their boats and gears do not allow for the type of large-scale multiday fishing operation that is to benefit from the harbor. Landing sites and anchorages are better suited to their immediate operation needs.

Project Number: 49325-003
Project Name: Northern Province Sustainable Fisheries Development Project
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Stakeholder consultations should be led by people who adequately understand community nuances.

Project Number: 49325-003
Project Name: Northern Province Sustainable Fisheries Development Project
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Designing projects in postwar areas requires more time.

Project Number: 49325-003
Project Name: Northern Province Sustainable Fisheries Development Project
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A phased approach to designing and implementing a development project may be considered to expedite stakeholder understanding and acceptance of the project.

Project Number: 49325-003
Project Name: Northern Province Sustainable Fisheries Development Project
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This validation offers the following lesson: although TA design may identify a particular model of consultancy, these needs may evolve during the program requiring adjustment. In this case, in developing a model that responded to the needs of ACMF’s working group on corporate governance, the TA project shifted its approach since the regulators felt that an audit firm (rather than consultants) would lend more credibility and recognition to the validation exercise.

Project Number: 48143-001
Project Name: Enhancing Association of Southeast Asian Nations Capital Market Integration
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