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The sustainability of project outcomes is closely linked to the commitment and ability of the EA and IAs to provide funding for continued operations after project completion. This commitment is largely in place with the one main concern relating to the Climate Change Trust Fund (CCTF). Having an experienced fund manager to assist the CCTF board and secretariat in managing and operationalizing the CCTF, while the project was still ongoing, would have been beneficial.

Project Number: 46351-002
Project Name: Climate Resilience Sector Project
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Frequent discussions with beneficiaries during project processing and implementation are a must to resolve issues promptly and amicably and avoid unnecessary delays. Under this project, some schools stopped construction, as the beneficiaries felt that the initial design was not appropriate.

Project Number: 46351-002
Project Name: Climate Resilience Sector Project
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Benefits linked to better utilization of data generated by successful initiatives need to be systematically built into or embedded in efforts to replicate these initiatives. The special management areas (SMAs), showcasing an initiative to increase the ability of coral reefs to recover after climate-related events, are undoubtedly a success story. It has been adopted and implemented nationwide by other development partners.

Project Number: 46351-002
Project Name: Climate Resilience Sector Project
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The engagement of experienced personnel with the ability to decide on crucial matters is indispensable to the successful implementation of projects. While there are limited financial and human resources in Tonga, the government tries its best to achieve and sustain project outputs through its recurrent budget. Implementation of key project outputs such as the CCTF and SMAs was eventually achieved.

Project Number: 46351-002
Project Name: Climate Resilience Sector Project
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Resource constraints can impede the participation of smaller firms in ADB procurement as well as hinderCapacity development of counterpart agencies. Smaller firms struggled to respond appropriately in some bidding processes, which resulted in their being considered ineligible to participate. The project implementation unit experienced resource constraints, which hindered sustainedCapacity development throughout the project and the participation of outer islands officials in the training activities.

Project Number: 46351-002
Project Name: Climate Resilience Sector Project
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Design and monitoring frameworks (DMFs) for emergency assistance-type projects could be better designed with a focus on project outcome targets instead of project outputs. The latter are difficult to determine because of insufficient time to detail specific equipment requirements. Streamlining DMFs by avoiding repetition of indicators will also help in focusing the DMF.

Project Number: 52129-001
Project Name: Cyclone Gita Recovery Project
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The establishment of a project performance management system (PPMS), which was not covenanted in the grant agreement, could have provided a useful source of data on which to develop an economic analysis model; identify, quantify, and value economic benefits; and assess the efficiency of the project. Because of the emergency nature of the project, baseline data could be collected during project implementation to enable data comparison after project completion.

Project Number: 52129-001
Project Name: Cyclone Gita Recovery Project
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Donor and implementing agency collaboration is critical to the successful implementation of the sectoral, build back better approach to disaster reconstruction. Even while the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade was separately managing its own bilateral funding and reconstruction works in another area of the Nuku’alofa electricity network, the planning and technical teams for this project and that of the ministry worked in close collaboration to ensure that the civil works in both areas were meeting quality standards and target timelines.

Project Number: 52129-001
Project Name: Cyclone Gita Recovery Project
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The use of the forced account works procedure for civil works and request for quotations and direct contracting for goods and equipment saved time in procurement for this project. The maximum use of the flexibilities inherent in these procedures, which accords with ADB’s Disaster and Emergency Assistance Policy, boosted project effectiveness and efficiency.

Project Number: 52129-001
Project Name: Cyclone Gita Recovery Project
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Having an implementing agency with staff who are well-versed in ADB procedures benefits all facets of project implementation and ensures timely project completion. This capacity also provides a strong base for further building the capacity of implementing agencies in asset management and operation and maintenance, and financial management and audits. which will benefit the implementation and sustainability of future projects.

Project Number: 52129-001
Project Name: Cyclone Gita Recovery Project
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For a sector such as ICT, with limited skills, expertise, and private sector involvement especially in a small country, project financing provides an opportunity for development banks, such as ADB, to leverage its development objectives. These include promoting private sector participation, improving public service delivery, and strengthening institutions. Infrastructure projects are only a means to achieve development outcomes and impacts. This is a principle that most infrastructure project designs could be based on.

Project Number: 38347-022
Project Name: Tonga–Fiji Submarine Cable Project
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Close coordination with other development banks, such as the World Bank, the government’s clear infrastructure priorities and plan, and its good relationship with a neighboring country is crucial to ensure project readiness, availability of funds, and timely implementation of the project.

Project Number: 38347-022
Project Name: Tonga–Fiji Submarine Cable Project
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A more detailed, formal assessment of individual, organizational, and institutional capacity before program design that could then be monitored during implementation might also have helped strengthen program implementation.

Project Number: 48361-001, 48361-002, 48361-003
Project Name: Building Macroeconomic Resilience Program
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The level, timing, focus, number, prioritization, sequencing, and flexibility of the reform actions are likely to be unique to each program of reforms and to change.

Project Number: 48361-001, 48361-002, 48361-003
Project Name: Building Macroeconomic Resilience Program
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Limited capacity of government staff should be considered in designing reform programs. The 34 policy actions for a crisis response operation stretched out the government’s capacity in absorbing a substantial reform agenda. Constraints to capacity were reflected in the delays in complying with the policy actions, in particular with the policy action on financial ratios, which resulted in waiver of this action.

Project Number: 43152-012
Project Name: Economic Support Program
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