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The adequacy and appropriateness of project design have to be tailored to the project’s ultimate objectives and complexities. The PCR provided weak justification of the relevance of the extension and the insufficiency of indicators.

Project Number: 39662-012, 39662-022
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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Stronger internal procedures ensure maintenance quality and probity. Quality control remains a weakness. Funding must be provided to support critical maintenance-related activities - progressive improvement of performance-based contracts, timely and appropriate supervision of maintenance contracts, and asset management planning to ensure proper forward planning of maintenance needs. Sound fiduciary procedures are needed to ensure that the quality and quantity of civil works, and the purchase of goods and services, are matched by proper financial records and approvals.

Project Number: 39581-012
Project Name: Road Improvement (Sector) Project
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Need for sound technical, economic, social, and environmental procedures. They are essential for translating the National Transport Plan into worthwhile and fully supported investments. Proper engagement and communication with stakeholders is vital to ensure that the rationale and the processes are fully understood. A stronger country safeguard system, including guidelines on obtaining customary land for transport projects, is essential.

Project Number: 39581-012
Project Name: Road Improvement (Sector) Project
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Sustained improvements in transport-related organizational capacity will require continued consultant support with early and continuous client engagement to ensure relevance. Obstacles can be overcome and the impact of capacity building can be improved by high-level client involvement as early as subproject preparation and execution.

Project Number: 39581-012
Project Name: Road Improvement (Sector) Project
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Cost overruns due to exchange rate fluctuations may be managed by an improved methodology for determining price contingencies.

Project Number: 39581-012
Project Name: Road Improvement (Sector) Project
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Achieving sustainability requires a consistent and long-term approach. Significant steps have been taken to harmonize development partner assistance in the transport sector to support a sector-wide approach.

Project Number: R
Project Name: Road Improvement (Sector) Project
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Greater capacity is needed by the government to manage community relations and negotiate compensation for land and resources utilized. Land acquisition for the Makira subproject was minimal and managed in accordance with ADB's safeguard policy. In the future, greater government capacity will be needed to manage community liaison, identify affected persons, and manage the process of compensation to avoid community dissatisfaction.

Project Number: 39581-012
Project Name: Road Improvement (Sector) Project
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Creating a contracting industry by motivating local communities. This can help maintain roads in good condition while representing value for money and providing positive social outcomes, but it requires adequate resources for effective supervision by engendering accountability of central and provincial governments.

Project Number: 39581-012
Project Name: Road Improvement (Sector) Project
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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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ADB was able to use its convening power effectively because it had the necessary in-house technical expertise. Public health experts on ADB's staff with knowledge of emerging infectious diseases were involved in designing and implementing the project. This in-house expertise made the dialogue with the technical and regional agencies to strengthen regional collaboration within and across the animal health and human health sectors possible.

Project Number: 39662-012
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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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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Need for extra effort focused on project preparation, especially in conducting sufficient assessment of the prospects for strategy and policy harmonization in areas that could potentially gain from collective action and regional cooperation.

Project Number: 37449-013
Project Name: Pacific Region: Establishment of the Pacific Aviation Safety Office Project
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Given that multiple streams of funding for HIV/AIDS were already available, it may have been more efficient for ADB to work in partnership with another donor who had more experience and technical expertise in HIV/AIDS.

Project Number: 38599-022
Project Name: HIV/AIDS Prevention and Capacity Development in the Pacific
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