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Lesson
Effectively engaging and coordinating with other donor agencies can help avoid duplication of funds for similar purposes and maximize the use of development financing. The project was designed in coordination with other development partners to ensure equitable geographical coverage, avoid overlaps, and complement other ADB assistance to the country.

Project Number: 42254-013
Project Name: Northern Road Connectivity Project
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The concept of level 2 design introduced under the Road Project Preparatory Facility is an effective strategy, particularly when there is no guarantee that the designed roads will be constructed immediately after preparation. This strategy minimizes the risk of outdated designs while saving time and other resources.

Project Number: 42254-013
Project Name: Northern Road Connectivity Project
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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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The absorptive capacity of the executing and implementing agencies, including the number of technical staff, their expertise, experience, and knowledge in project management processes and peculiarities, needs to be properly evaluated before setting the appropriate output targets.

Project Number: 38357-013
Project Name: National Highways Sector Project
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Ambitious targets create potential issues and expose the project to higher implementation risks as the executing and implementing agencies must spread their meager resources to more outputs.

Project Number: 38357-013
Project Name: National Highways Sector Project
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The preparation of detailed designs for project roads at the pre-feasibility and project appraisal levels could be subjected to more thorough technical scrutiny.

Project Number: 38357-013
Project Name: National Highways Sector Project
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Lesson
The number of projects and subprojects to be implemented under any assistance package must consider the absorptive capacity of local contractors, availability of construction materials, and local labor. Close attention must be given to the quality of the facilities and infrastructures built. Utilizing local contractors and labor have their trade-offs, such as implementation delays and deficiency in financial resources, but the quality of the completed facilities is nonnegotiable. This would require closer supervision, frequent monitoring, and faster processing of payments.

Project Number: 44065-013
Project Name: Conflict-Affected Region Emergency Project
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It is best to allocate available local resources and assistance, including loans based on sector priorities, through a participatory process involving all stakeholders and beneficiaries.

Project Number: 44065-013
Project Name: Conflict-Affected Region Emergency Project
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Agreement should be reached with the government at the central and provincial levels regarding the budgeting of funds for road maintenance. This agreement should cover all roads in the province rather than just project roads. This should ensure the sustainability of project roads and future roads financed by ADB, although it was not implemented at the time of the PCR.

Project Number: 39619-013
Project Name: Eastern and North Central Provincial Road Project
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Sufficient attention should be paid to gender issues during project implementation in compliance with the requirement for subprojects to be selected by local authorities inter alia on the basis of gender criteria.

Project Number: 35201-013
Project Name: Local Government Infrastructure Improvement Project
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The appropriateness of the modality of FIL could have been more effectively assessed at appraisal, given the limited capacity of LLDF, the short-fall of effective leadership and the issues raised late in project implementation on further required LLDF areas of improvement.

Project Number: 35201-013
Project Name: Local Government Infrastructure Improvement Project
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Lesson
The project aimed at establishing the landlord status of the SLPA and entrusting the operation to the private sector to improve efficiency. This validation views that this is a right direction and many port projects in the world are taking or try to take the same approach. However, as witnessed by many port projects, it is a challenging approach.

Project Number: 39431-013
Project Name: Colombo Port Expansion Project
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More detailed bottlenecks of the port in the three functions should have been identified at appraisal. It is now difficult to review what functions were improved effectively. Balanced investments in three functions are essential for port business, but it is not clear how theproject achieved the enhancement of capacity and efficiency.

Project Number: 39431-013
Project Name: Colombo Port Expansion Project
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The two project components—addressing port sector policy, institutional, and regulatory issues; and preparing the technical and economic feasibility study for the SHDP— were combined into one consultancy contract. Of the total 288 person-months, 12 person-months (less than 5%) were directly allocated for JCT business reorganization and corporatization. The bulk (225 person-months) was allocated for PPP and/or engineering works or what could also be considered as PPP transactional services.

Project Number: 33019-013
Project Name: Colombo Port Efficiency and Expansion Project
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Lesson
Given the complexities of implementing ADB projects with its safeguard requirements and loan conditions, capacity development of all relevant agencies and their staff could be made a precondition to loan signing. In this project, the number of affected people and displaced families significantly increased during project implementation.These had contributed to the increased project cost and delayed implementation, and might also have had an adverse impact on the relationship between ADB and local stakeholders. TA projects had to be provided to improve project implementation performance.

Project Number: 26522-023
Project Name: Southern Transport Development Project
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