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Maintaining policy dialogue and seeking stakeholder feedback is essential to ensure that governments remain committed to reforms.

Project Number: 48479-001
Project Name: Economic Growth and Fiscal Reform Program
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The timeframes for non-tranche release conditions need to be carefully considered to limit their potential negative impact on project performance.

Project Number: 48479-001
Project Name: Economic Growth and Fiscal Reform Program
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Continuous policy-based budget support from development partners is necessary to ensure the uninterrupted implementation and sustainability of government reforms in the Solomon Islands.

Project Number: 48479-001
Project Name: Economic Growth and Fiscal Reform Program
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Continued technical assistance (TA) is essential to ensuring the successful implementation and sustainability of program-driven reforms in the Solomon Islands.

Project Number: 48479-001
Project Name: Economic Growth and Fiscal Reform Program
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Policy actions that include legislative reforms need to have realistic timelines.

Project Number: 48479-001
Project Name: Economic Growth and Fiscal Reform Program
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Consulting contracts may need to incentivize quality and efficiency to ensure timely delivery and high-quality implementation support services.

Project Number: 41171-022
Project Name: Transport Sector Development Project
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Ensuring an early focus on sustaining government ownership, institutionalizing asset management, and improving the quality of civil works can spur continuing progress in developing a sector-based approach to transport development in the country.

Project Number: 41171-022
Project Name: Transport Sector Development Project
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Rigorous cost-benefit and financial analyses ensure the viability and efficiency of projects as well as the adjustments that must be made.

Project Number: 41171-022
Project Name: Transport Sector Development Project
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Financing requirements for the project should have been firmed up from the beginning considering that there were other cofinanciers. It took some time before the EU actually signed the contribution agreement with ADB and this was identified by the midterm review mission as one issue for the project. While it was anticipated that the EU would sign the agreement by June 2011, it was signed only in 2012. This caused delays in the implementation of specific subprojects to be funded out of the EU contribution.

Project Number: 43381-012
Project Name: Second Road Improvement (Sector) Project
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A thorough evaluation of the executing agency capacity’s, especially in providing the required counterpart staff. This is to maximize the knowledge and skills transfer from the consultants to the national staff, and to enable the national staff to manage future projects and maintain existing infrastructures. Under the project, MID was unable to mobilize the required number of counterpart staff resulting in the national consultants assuming their roles in the project.

Project Number: 43381-012
Project Name: Second Road Improvement (Sector) Project
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No new lessons

Project Number: 46497-001
Project Name: Economic and Financial Reform Program
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Sound technical and economic safeguard procedures are required to support NTP (National Transport Plan) implementation. All such procedures are essential for translation of the NTP into worthwhile and fully supported investments on the ground. Appropriate engagement and communication with stakeholders is essential to ensure these processes are fully understood as well as the reasons for particular technical decisions. A stronger country safeguards system, including guidelines on obtaining land for transport projects, is essential.

Project Number: 43381-012
Project Name: Second Road Improvement (Sector) Project
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Achieving sustainability requires a consistent and long term approach. The sustainability of project outcomes is greatly dependent on an ongoing commitment by the government to road maintenance, rehabilitation and asset management. Significant steps have been taken to harmonize donor assistance to the transport sector in support of a sector-wide approach. The ongoing Transport Sector Development Project and its support to MID (Ministry of Infrastructure Development) provides a predictable medium-term source of financing through NTF (National Transport Fund).

Project Number: 43381-012
Project Name: Second Road Improvement (Sector) Project
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Imprest accounts. The project received financing from various sources at different time intervals through grant agreements 0175, 0176, 0177, 0207, 0210 and recipient's contribution through government annual budget and the NTF (National Transport Fund). The disbursement of funds was carried out through direct payment and reimbursement procedures by maintaining three first generation and five second generation accounts.

Project Number: 43381-012
Project Name: Second Road Improvement (Sector) Project
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Community liaison. Effective and efficient community liaison by experienced persons is important to resolving conflicts between the community and workforce, and between expatriate and local labor. Greater capacity will be required in MID (Ministry of Infrastructure Development) to manage community liaison, identify affected people, and manage the process of compensation to avoid community dissatisfaction.

Project Number: 43381-012
Project Name: Second Road Improvement (Sector) Project
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