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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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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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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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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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The allowable size of civil works contracts should consider contractor technical and financial capacity, geographic proximity of the projects and ease of supervision by the implementing agency. While a smaller contract size encourages competition and hypothetically lower prices, this may discourage technically and financially capable contractors from participating. This may also result in poor quality of work that would require more frequent supervisory visits and rectification.

Project Number: 40559-013
Project Name: Second Urban Governance and Infrastructure Improvement (Sector) Project
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Involving citizens in local planning and development fosters transparency and improves the quality of urban infrastructure and services.

Project Number: 40559-015
Project Name: Second Urban Governance and Infrastructure Improvement (Sector) Project
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Roads with reinforced cement concrete pavements are sturdier and more sustainable in coastal and flood prone areas.

Project Number: 40559-016
Project Name: Second Urban Governance and Infrastructure Improvement (Sector) Project
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Project readiness is essential to efficient project implementation.

Project Number: 40559-017
Project Name: Second Urban Governance and Infrastructure Improvement (Sector) Project
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Allocation of investment funds based on governance performance introduces good policies and practices and motivates local governments to improve public services.

Project Number: 40559-013
Project Name: Second Urban Governance and Infrastructure Improvement (Sector) Project
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Clear implementation timeframes and strong monitoring systems help ensure the success of a complex, multicomponent project.

Project Number: 40559-014
Project Name: Second Urban Governance and Infrastructure Improvement (Sector) Project
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