Search

Displaying 1 - 15 of 36

CSV
Lesson
A thorough assessment of the financial management capacity of executing agencies (EAs) is required to mitigate the risk of financial issues disrupting project implementation or leading to non-compliance to loan covenants/grant agreements. The Agency for Land Reclamation and Irrigation (ALRI), the EA for 2 of this project’s 4 intended outputs, did not monitor the commercial bank that held the advance accounts for said outputs. When the bank became insolvent, part of the advance accounts was frozen, and was refunded only after government intervention albeit with significant delay.

Project Number: 45389-001, 45389-002, 45389-003, 45389-004
Project Name: Building Climate Resilience in the Pyanj River Basin
Report Date:
Lesson
A project focusing on microfinance could help remove obstacles to micro-insurance or other risk transfer schemes in the agricultural sector. The project did not create a market for micro-insurance as envisaged.

Project Number: 45389-001, 45389-002, 45389-003, 45389-004
Project Name: Building Climate Resilience in the Pyanj River Basin
Report Date:
Lesson
Timing and location are essential to the participation of women in gender-related and other project activities. Implementation of this project’s gender action plan (GAP) was challenged by the wide geographic dispersion of households, which created difficulties in gathering project participants for training. The gender awareness campaigns also coincided with the harvest season, which made it difficult for farmer-beneficiaries to take part.

Project Number: 45389-001, 45389-002, 45389-003, 45389-004
Project Name: Building Climate Resilience in the Pyanj River Basin
Report Date:
Lesson
Less stringent selection criteria, which enables the participation of more eligible financial institutions, could optimize the impact of microlending short-term, low-interest loans in unbanked but regularly earning agricultural communities. The selection of partner participating financial institutions (PFIs) for the microlending component of this project may have been too strict. This resulted in the participation of only 3 of the 6 large PFIs in Tajikistan, all of which are foreign-owned and likely to have been effective partners.

Project Number: 45389-001, 45389-002, 45389-003, 45389-004
Project Name: Building Climate Resilience in the Pyanj River Basin
Report Date:
Lesson
More measures are needed to strengthen the disaster resilience of schools in Vanuatu.

Project Number: 49320-001
Project Name: Cyclone Pam School Reconstruction Project
Report Date:
Lesson
Schools with community emergency shelters have a strong scaling up potential in Vanuatu.

Project Number: 49320-001
Project Name: Cyclone Pam School Reconstruction Project
Report Date:
Lesson
Project targets and indicators need to be specific and measurable and should fully consider the project inputs.

Project Number: 49320-001
Project Name: Cyclone Pam School Reconstruction Project
Report Date:
Lesson
The use of single source procurement method does not always save time.

Project Number: 49320-001
Project Name: Cyclone Pam School Reconstruction Project
Report Date:
Lesson
Effective feedback mechanisms are important to developing community ownership of projects.

Project Number: 49320-001
Project Name: Cyclone Pam School Reconstruction Project
Report Date:
Lesson
Preparatory studies of project design, which ensure technical feasibility during project preparatory phase, help reduce the effect of implementation delays that may arise due to changes in project scope or geographical conditions. As such, project master plans need to be properly supplemented by technical details to ensure suitable configuration of components. These need to cover the whole range of alternative technical options that are available.

Project Number: 42391-013
Project Name: Port Vila Urban Development Project
Report Date:
Lesson
Strengthening partnerships among bilateral and multilateral organizations, especially in the Pacific region, supplements a government’s initiatives. For instance, complementary work among these donors helps a government in redesigning projects struck by disasters during implementation, especially to realign project components alongside the urgent needs of disaster recovery, rehabilitation, and reconstruction efforts.

Project Number: 42391-013
Project Name: Port Vila Urban Development Project
Report Date:
Lesson
Insufficient operation and maintenance (O&M) budgets are a chronic constraint in many Pacific island countries.

Project Number: 42391-013
Project Name: Port Vila Urban Development Project
Report Date:
Lesson
Clear definition of scope, common timelines, and sustained communication and coordination are essential to the success of project cofinancing arrangements.

Project Number: 42391-013
Project Name: Port Vila Urban Development Project
Report Date:
Lesson
Adequate management and implementation consultant capacity and support, which continue to be locally challenging, need to be ensured in future ADB projects in Vanuatu.

Project Number: 42391-013
Project Name: Port Vila Urban Development Project
Report Date:
Lesson
Engaging individual consultants rather than firms for key project roles may be more appropriate in Vanuatu.

Project Number: 42391-013
Project Name: Port Vila Urban Development Project
Report Date:
CSV