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Ensuring that contractors engage project management and supervision team with adequate capacity is important. The reason for delays in implementing works contracts and the poor quality of works at the beginning of the project was the low performance of works contractors, who did not provide adequate management and supervision staff in accordance with their contractual obligations. Implementation agencies had to provide additional input to compensate contractors’ deficiencies, which resulted in high additional costs for consulting services.

Project Number: 42394-022
Project Name: Nuku'alofa Urban Development Sector Project
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Timely capacity development for executing agencies with limited experience in ADB’s procurement rules and in safeguard requirements are important for an efficient project implementation. For example, retendering of TWB’s first works contract caused significant delays and could have been avoid

Project Number: 42394-022
Project Name: Nuku'alofa Urban Development Sector Project
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It is important to prepare meaningful monitoring frameworks with relevant and clearly defined indicators and targets to assess project effectiveness objectively. For example, the service area (Nuku’alofa water supply network or the overall Tongatapu island) to which the baseline data refer to are unclear (footnotes 16 and 17). In addition, the PCR noted that some of the gender indicators were outside of the project’s sphere of influence and could have been better defined.

Project Number: 42394-022
Project Name: Nuku'alofa Urban Development Sector Project
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The project gender action plan (GAP) needs to be achievable and directly related to the project activities.

Project Number: 42394-022
Project Name: Nuku'alofa Urban Development Sector Project
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ADB-financed projects in the Pacific should be ready to immediately make the necessary adjustments when undocumented underground installations are found during implementation.

Project Number: 42394-022
Project Name: Nuku'alofa Urban Development Sector Project
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Land acquisition and resettlement (LAR) in Tonga needs to be allotted relatively more time for implementation.

Project Number: 42394-022
Project Name: Nuku'alofa Urban Development Sector Project
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It is important to establish a standalone environmental safeguards unit (ESU) right at project inception to focus on and coordinate safeguards compliance activities in ADB-financed projects.

Project Number: 42394-022
Project Name: Nuku'alofa Urban Development Sector Project
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Safeguards compliance is best promoted through regular monitoring and audit

Project Number: 42394-022
Project Name: Nuku'alofa Urban Development Sector Project
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With demonstrated capability and the distinct advantage of local grounding, national contractors may be considered for future midrange urban projects in Tonga.

Project Number: 42394-022
Project Name: Nuku'alofa Urban Development Sector Project
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Tonga’s key urban sector agencies continue to have inadequate capacity to replace capital costs.

Project Number: 42394-022
Project Name: Nuku'alofa Urban Development Sector Project
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