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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 This strategy minimizes the risk of outdated designs while saving time and other resources.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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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 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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The performance-based maintenance (PBM) approach enhances the sustainability of road investments.

Project Number: 38357-013
Project Name: National Highways Sector Project
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Ensuring project implementation readiness can help prevent cost overruns and implementation delays.

Project Number: 38357-013
Project Name: National Highways Sector Project
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Having the necessary government support and participation and technical expertise, along with appropriate management information systems and innovative approaches, can facilitate the implementation of land acquisition and resettlement (LAR) activities.

Project Number: 38357-013
Project Name: National Highways Sector 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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Changing the scope of a project during implementation as excessively as in this case cannot be considered as a good practice, even when in response to a flood.

Project Number: 31282-013
Project Name: Southern Province Rural Economic Advancement Project
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Since the project had two implementing agencies supervised by different agencies, project coordination was difficult. A more suitable arrangement involving dual implementation agencies may be through a region-based apex financial institution, which is also assigned responsibility for establishment and operation of enterprise development service support activities and works closely with the regional organization responsible for sustaining the enabling environment.

Project Number: 31282-013
Project Name: Southern Province Rural Economic Advancement Project
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The project was particularly effective in meeting the needs of the government. The project responded very effectively by repairing the damaged rural gravel roads and pedestrian bridges after the May 2003 floods. As requested by the government, the project also responded positively by changing its scope from gravel roads to paved surface roads. The responsiveness and flexibility demonstrated by the project was laudable, and the project provided a worthy example for the design and management of future projects.

Project Number: 31282-013
Project Name: Southern Province Rural Economic Advancement Project
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Future projects designed to address rural gravel road maintenance issues need to be more carefully designed through (i) identification of project roads during appraisal; (ii) identification of suitable gravel sources in proximity of the project roads; and (iii) prior commitment from each pradeshiya sabha to participate in the project, including prior establishment and commitment of funds to a road maintenance account.

Project Number: 31282-013
Project Name: Southern Province Rural Economic Advancement Project
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Future projects need to address issues associated with the financial capacity of pradeshiya sabhas to develop and maintain rural infrastructure through closer monitoring, obtaining greater commitments from provincial and local organizations, and the use of soft loans for capital works tied to user-pay financial plans for civil works such as rural markets, where a financing charges mechanism already exists.

Project Number: 31282-013
Project Name: Southern Province Rural Economic Advancement Project
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