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ADB has no modality for a financial crisis response operation for Asian Development Fund countries. The special program loan in the Program Lending Policy is limited to ordinary capital resources countries and can only used to address balance of payment crises. Likewise, emergency assistance under the Disaster and Emergency Assistance Policy (DEAP) does not include financial crisis response. As such, the program had to use the standard program grant modality and develop the design of program actions to allow quick processing and disbursement.

Project Number: 43098-012
Project Name: Crisis Recovery Support Program
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Conducting a comprehensive needs assessment before drawing up civil works and equipment lists, ensure that the right inputs are made in the right places.

Project Number: 33036-013
Project Name: Health Sector Reform Project
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Holistic approach. The project design, which simultaneously strengthens three pillars of support the line ministry (MInistry of Education or MOE), the school, and the community proved to be a good model for future education projects.

Project Number: 37175-013
Project Name: Education Sector Reform Project
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Rationalization of PHC institutions and provision of adequate health financing should go 'hand in hand'. Thus, the restructuring of health institutions should be accompanied by trained primary health care (PHC) staff, sufficient coverage of PHC facilities, adequate supplies of essential drugs and medical commodities, and health reform;

Project Number: 33036-013
Project Name: Health Sector Reform Project
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Since the crisis response operations support government's crisis mitigation measures, program monitoring could also benefit from technical assistance where country systems are weak, as in Tajikistan. The technical assistance could focus on expenditure tracking mechanisms, internal controls, and external audits; and be conducted in two stages. At the first stage, when monitoring capacity is still weak, experts could be engaged to monitor program-supported expenditures rather than relying on the government to submit monitoring reports.

Project Number: 43098-012
Project Name: Crisis Recovery Support Program
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During crisis episodes, while policy reforms are important, the government has urgent needs to quickly stabilize the economy, such as, providing urgent fiscal support to counteract the financial crisis. As such, crisis response operations should focus more on immediate responses to the financial crisis, such as maintaining critical social and safety net expenditures. However, as crises open opportunities for reforms, policy dialogue can be initiated for follow-up operations. But this should not delay the financial crisis recovery support.

Project Number: 43098-012
Project Name: Crisis Recovery Support Program
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Where WUAs are expected to participate in designing irrigation and drainage schemes, it is important that they be established in advance of the design process to ensure ownership.

Project Number: 32494-023
Project Name: Agriculture Rehabilitation Project
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Complementary project inputs. The combination of the Education Sector Reform Project (ESRP) and the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) School Improvement Project was a demonstration of successful coordination of projects pursuing related objectives within the same organization.

Project Number: 37175-013
Project Name: Education Sector Reform Project
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The project was the second ADB-financed road project in Tajikistan. Therefore, the Ministry of Transport and Communication (MOTC) and project implementation unit (PIU) need to be familiarized with ADB's policies and procedures. However, the familiarization effort was inadequate. ADB should continue to train MOTC on its policies and procedures and PIU staff for existing and future projects. In addition, frequent changes in ADB project officers caused discontinuity in project administration.

Project Number: 34569-013
Project Name: Dushanbe-Kyrgyz Border Road Rehabilitation Project (Phase 1)
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The technical assistance (TA) for preparing the project was inadequate. Project preparatory TA was designed and implemented similarly for all countries in terms of budget, scope, and expertise. However, Tajikistan needs more technical support from ADB, especially in engineering aspects. Due to inadequate engineering survey and design, as well as little involvement of government officials, numerous changes in quantity and methodology were required during implementation.

Project Number: 34569-013
Project Name: Dushanbe-Kyrgyz Border Road Rehabilitation Project (Phase 1)
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