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Lesson
Giving equal importance to the institutional and capacity support and infrastructure investments under a sector loan strengthens commitment, ownership, and accountability of the executing agency. The implementation of infrastructure component of the project, coupled with timely technical support and capacity building, is pivotal to ensuring project readiness and implementation progress in a highly challenging context.

Project Number: 39298-013
Project Name: City Region Development Project
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Lesson
A holistic and in-depth assessment of project context and adequate stakeholder consultations are important to ensure project readiness in identification of candidate subprojects and to avoid unnecessary changes leading to delays. For example, change of the location for the solid waste management subproject due to unavailability of land in the originally proposed location.

Project Number: 39298-013
Project Name: City Region Development Project
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Lesson
For sector loan projects where several past related interventions and investments were provided, building on progress achieved from them and duly taking account of relevant recommendations can optimize project design and fasttrack project implementation towards efficient fund utilization and satisfactory delivery of project outputs. In the case of this project, its design capitalized on the capacity of the implementing agencies strengthened through previous ADB projects and the flexibility of a sector loan to incentivize them to perform and compete for securing the investment funds.

Project Number: 39298-013
Project Name: City Region Development Project
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An integrated solid waste management (SWM) facility can have a transformative effect on community-level SWM.

Project Number: 39298-013
Project Name: City Region Development Project
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Simpler and more tightly knit implementation arrangements will make project execution and coordination easier to undertake.

Project Number: 39298-013
Project Name: City Region Development Project
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Changes in scope present opportunities for enhancing the project design and monitoring frameworks (DMFs) and making them more effective in improving project performance.

Project Number: 39298-013
Project Name: City Region Development Project
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Lesson
Robust technical due diligence and thorough feasibility studies will help minimize the need for scope changes, reallocations, and loan extensions.

Project Number: 39298-013
Project Name: City Region Development Project
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Municipal–level capacity development and performance monitoring are essential to making the city region work in improving municipal governance and infrastructure.

Project Number: 39298-013
Project Name: City Region Development Project
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No additional lessons

Project Number: 36297-013
Project Name: Secondary Towns Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project
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Lesson
Delays caused by lengthy land acquisition procedures. Land acquisition and resettlement is the object of complex and lengthy procedures, causing project implementation delays—although the nature and extent of the issues encountered are not described in any detail. The lesson learned is the need during project preparation to ensure the full commitment of the government and the executing agency to implement the resettlement plan.

Project Number: 26427-013
Project Name: Secondary Towns Integrated Flood Protection Project (Phase 2)
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Lesson
Sustainability of project assets and O&M arrangements.

Project Number: 26427-013
Project Name: Secondary Towns Integrated Flood Protection Project (Phase 2)
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Lesson
Project implementation delays could be reduced reasonably through careful and efficient recruitment of consultants, early land acquisition and resettlement, proper surveys, and the motivation of city corporations.

Project Number: 26427-013
Project Name: Secondary Towns Integrated Flood Protection Project (Phase 2)
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Lesson
Land acquisition in secondary towns can be a lengthy process and can cause significant delays in startup and implementation. Addressing the issue requires strong support from the relevant city corporations and district administrators, motivational campaigns, and adequate compensation packages. Advancing the preparation and approval of the Development Project Proforma to secure necessary funds for land acquisition early in project processing can reduce project startup delays.

Project Number: 26427-013
Project Name: Secondary Towns Integrated Flood Protection Project (Phase 2)
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Lesson
A design focusing on both physical and logistical issues and outputs and involving highly qualified experts was key to mitigate flooding and drainage congestions thoroughly and sustainably, improving living conditions in the towns as well as their economic.

Project Number: 26427-013
Project Name: Secondary Towns Integrated Flood Protection Project (Phase 2)
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Lesson
The BWDB (Bangladesh Water Development Board) and LGED (Local Government Engineering Department) lacked the expertise to prepare tender documents and accurately survey, design, estimate, monitor, and supervise the construction of flood control and drainage structures. Thus, consultant services are needed to ensure the timely completion of all activities to a high standard.

Project Number: 26427-013
Project Name: Secondary Towns Integrated Flood Protection Project (Phase 2)
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