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Ensuring pertinent output performance indicators for capacity building are important to reflect to better tackle deficiencies identified during due diligence of the executing agency and the implementing agency's capacities, especially regarding procurement and their understanding of ADB procedures and requirements.

Project Number: 50063-001
Project Name: Kashkadarya Regional Road Project
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The potential risks relating to ADB procurement procedures and the government’s lengthy procedures to register contracts and verify prices were clearly identified at appraisal. With the failure to complete the civil works contract award process and the eventual loan cancellation before any construction could take place, appropriate mitigation measures were lacking. In future projects, more rigorous risk assessment and design of mitigation measures are required to ensure potential contracting problems are dealt with promptly and do not delay project implementation.

Project Number: 50063-001
Project Name: Kashkadarya Regional Road Project
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To confirm the economic viability of the regional plan and then identify which countries benefit or do not benefit, an economic internal rate of return (EIRR) for the region should be prepared in the first instance of the regional investment.

Project Number: 42107-023, 42107-033, 42107-043
Project Name: Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 2 Road Investment Program
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The project performance management system, which is necessary to provide the data for the identification and quantification of economic benefits, should be established at the project preparation stage with baseline data collected and maintained through implementation to project completion.

Project Number: 42107-023, 42107-033, 42107-043
Project Name: Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 2 Road Investment Program
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For investments of a regional character, it is important to assign economic benefits to the appropriate country, if not, economic viability of the investment may be grossly misrepresented.

Project Number: 42107-023, 42107-033, 42107-043
Project Name: Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 2 Road Investment Program
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A country specific EIRR and economic net present value would have to follow to put the investment in proper perspective

Project Number: 42107-023, 42107-033, 42107-043
Project Name: Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 2 Road Investment Program
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A number of the indicators in the DMF are framed inadequately. For example, the indicator related to road beneficiaries claimed that 4.5 million people would benefit. It was not clear how this was measured, as the area of the project itself is basically uninhabited. While it was also clear that some indicators were dropped during project implementation, such as the number of women expected to benefit from the project (para. 16).

Project Number: 42107-033
Project Name: Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 2 Road Investment Program (Tranche 2)
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The original forecasts for traffic intensity on the road section may have not warranted a four-lane road improvement (para. 13). While the PCR listed an economic downturn in Uzbekistan for this, the validation notes that the methodology followed for the estimation of traffic intensity at initial appraisal, contract completion, and reappraisal was poorly structured. Estimating traffic based upon extremely short surveys is known to introduce significant potential inaccuracies. This appears to be a common issue, with insufficient emphasis being placed upon traffic surveys.

Project Number: 42107-033
Project Name: Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 2 Road Investment Program (Tranche 2)
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The implementation of the project was initially delayed by the bankruptcy of the originally selected contractor’s parent firm. This bankruptcy occurred prior to mobilization and as such no additional costs were incurred. However, the additional procurement process led to significant delays and additional costs for both ADB and the borrower. It would be useful to learn more about the contractors and to review procedures for assessing their financial sustainability.

Project Number: 42107-033
Project Name: Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 2 Road Investment Program (Tranche 2)
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There were issues associated with working with the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations, Investments and Trade (MFERIT) during the project. MFERIT is responsible for registering all construction contracts in the country, but it appears that there are slow processes within MFERIT, which delayed the process and led to significant detrimental effect on the progress of the contractor mobilization. ADB can work with MFERIT to improve processes generally, or at least identify a fast-track approach for externally funded projects.

Project Number: 42107-033
Project Name: Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 2 Road Investment Program (Tranche 2)
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Need to improve access of local communities to the project road. This was noted by the PCR mission in its foray to the local communities. The secondary roads connecting local communities to A380 were not rebuilt to provide better and safe access to the main roadway. The provision for cattle crossings would have further enhanced road safety and should have been considered in the road design.

Project Number: 42107-023
Project Name: Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 2 Road Investment Program (Tranche 1)
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Lesson
No new lessons

Project Number: 39669-013
Project Name: CAREC Regional Road Project
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