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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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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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Successful implementation of the gender action plan (GAP) had measurable changes in women’s status; therefore the formulation of a GAP may be mainstreamed for similar projects with distribution system components.

Project Number: 39415-013
Project Name: Sustainable Power Sector Support Project
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Considering the lack of commercial skills in the Sri Lanka Sustainable Energy Authority to facilitate private sector investment, better results were possible with the allocation of more international experts and person-months of consulting services.

Project Number: 39415-013
Project Name: Sustainable Power Sector Support Project
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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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No additional lessons

Project Number: 39293-013
Project Name: Education for Knowledge Society 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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Tsunami risk in the Indian Ocean is now better understood and should be considered in similar major infrastructure investments along coastal and low-lying areas.

Project Number: 31501-013, 31501-023, 31501-033
Project Name: Secondary Towns and Rural Community-Based Water Supply and Sanitation 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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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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