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Close consultation with stakeholders during project design and implementation is especially needed to address the difficulties commonly arising from finding appropriate sites for solid waste and medical waste management facilities in urban projects. Due to lack of land and higher costs of construction than estimated at appraisal, it was not possible to construct the integrated waste treatment facilities, slaughterhouses, and medical waste management facilities planned under this program. These components were eventually dropped.

Project Number: 39305-013
Project Name: Urban Public and Environmental Health Sector Development Program 
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Overall project success depends to a large extent on the successful implementation of risk mitigation measures carefully identified at appraisal. Weak institutional arrangements and lack of ownership saddled the implementation of this program. A lack of capacity and coordination among different agencies compounded the difficulties. The difficulties could have been minimized or avoided through the timely implementation of risk mitigation measures drawn at appraisal. The measures should be based on a thorough assessment of all potential risks throughout the project period.

Project Number: 39305-013
Project Name: Urban Public and Environmental Health Sector Development Program 
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The ownership and rationale of policy reforms need to be carefully assessed at appraisal. Strong ownership and consistent government support are critical to the success of program loans. As such, the ownership and rationale of policy reforms should be carefully assessed at appraisal. In assessing ownership, it is important to remember that policy actions affect many stakeholders, both within and outside the government.

Project Number: 45253-002
Project Name: Third Capital Market Development Program
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The design and monitoring framework (DMF) should be reviewed and updated as necessary during implementation to ensure continued alignment with other aspects of the program. The outcome and output indicators in the program DMF had been developed at appraisal for achievement over a relatively short period of 24 months. However, when program implementation was extended by 23 months to November 2019, an opportunity was missed to update the targeted dates for the indicators, which were measured about 1 year after the extended program completion date.

Project Number: 45253-002
Project Name: Third Capital Market Development Program
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Continued engagement by ADB with the government is imperative. To maintain reform momentum, ADB’s continued engagement with the government is a must even after the program is completed. One mechanism could be through a post-program partnership framework. While facilitating monitoring of the borrower’s compliance with loan covenants, this will also enable ADB to identify follow-on actions where it can have value addition.

Project Number: 45253-002
Project Name: Third Capital Market Development Program
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Consensus-building requires sufficient time for meaningful and in-depth consultations with various stakeholders. This program’s experience has demonstrated that building consensus between the government and the private sector, as well as among government departments, could take much longer than envisaged. The program design to strengthen the staffing of three major regulatory institutions within 2 years was optimistic, and a more realistic timeframe should have been considered. Future programs that will necessitate consensus-building should provide ample time for this type of activity.

Project Number: 45253-002
Project Name: Third Capital Market Development Program
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Inadequate natural gas supply can reduce the economic benefits from the project’s investment in Bangladesh's Khulna power plant.

Project Number: 42378-015
Project Name: Power System Expansion and Efficiency Improvement Investment Program – Tranche 1
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Centralized administration may help reduce the risks in cofinancing arrangements.

Project Number: 42378-015
Project Name: Power System Expansion and Efficiency Improvement Investment Program – Tranche 1
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Precise and well-defined targets are crucial to the successful implementation and reliable monitoring and evaluation of projects.

Project Number: 42378-015
Project Name: Power System Expansion and Efficiency Improvement Investment Program – Tranche 1
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Leveraging midterm review missions (MTRs) as an opportunity to update project design and monitoring frameworks (DMFs) will enhance the likelihood of project success.

Project Number: 42378-015
Project Name: Power System Expansion and Efficiency Improvement Investment Program – Tranche 1
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Safeguards and safeguard documents need to be updated in line with changes in scope.

Project Number: 42378-015
Project Name: Power System Expansion and Efficiency Improvement Investment Program – Tranche 1
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Adequate support and capacity building are essential to ensuring compliance to ADB financial audit requirements.

Project Number: 42378-015
Project Name: Power System Expansion and Efficiency Improvement Investment Program – Tranche 1
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Clarifying each cofinancier's policy and administration with respect to all the subprojects/project components within its scope is critical to minimizing the implementation risks that may be encountered in parallel cofinancing.

Project Number: 42378-015
Project Name: Power System Expansion and Efficiency Improvement Investment Program – Tranche 1
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Adequate support and capacity building are essential to ensuring compliance to ADB financial audit requirements.

Project Number: 42378-015
Project Name: Power System Expansion and Efficiency Improvement Investment Program – Tranche 1
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Expeditious engagement of consultants, with terms of reference (TORs) and deliverables that leave no room for differences in interpretation, will enable the timely preparation and successful launch of PPP projects.

Project Number: 45174-001
Project Name: Dhaka-Chittagong Expressway Public-Private Partnership Design Project
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