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Related to the size, complexity, and length of the project phases and the need to ascertain if these were effective in the project area: the project results support the effectiveness of long-term investment in one area as a multisector support through infrastructure. However, there was limited evidence in the completion report regarding the project’s effect on poverty levels and the rate of improvement compared to other areas.

Project Number: 37097-013
Project Name: Integrated Rural Development Sector Project in the Central Provinces
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Maintaining the capacity built through similar projects or establishing knowledge transfer could extend the sustainability of project activities and increase the likelihood of achieving expected impacts. The long-term usefulness of the capacity that was built must be further considered. Closer linkage between the participants in TA trainings and the infrastructure activities could have encouraged participants to apply their newly built capacity within the project.

Project Number: 37097-013
Project Name: Integrated Rural Development Sector Project in the Central Provinces
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Within the context of promoting environmentally sustainable growth, it is worthwhile to identify and formulate projects that are environmentally positive rather than focusing on preventing negative environmental impacts. Such opportunities exist, especially in the agriculture, rural development, and environmental sector. Country programming missions could help identify these types of environmentally-positive projects.

Project Number: 45406-001
Project Name: Low Carbon Agricultural Support Project
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The use of a proven technology attractive to project participants can help ensure the attainment of development results. This project included two poorly prepared components—credit and technology transfer—one was not implemented at all and the other only achieved a portion of its targeted outputs. Having a tried and promising technology to promote is an important step toward project success.

Project Number: 45406-001
Project Name: Low Carbon Agricultural Support Project
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A project associated with a larger or “parent” project needs a critical and in-depth assessment of its technical design and scope, and implementation timeline. This helps in ensuring that the target activities and outputs, along with its planned implementation period, could be delivered as expected.

Project Number: 45200-002
Project Name: Sustainable Urban Transport for Ho Chi Minh Mass Rapid Transit Line 2
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Lesson
The level of institutional capacity and limitations of the executing agency are crucial factors that need to be carefully developed on time. Furthermore, the experience of the borrower and executing agencies in managing ADB-financed projects needs to be duly taken into account during risk assessment to provide the necessary capacity building and skills set prior to execution of a project. examined during project appraisal to effectively support project implementation. Identification of

Project Number: 45200-002
Project Name: Sustainable Urban Transport for Ho Chi Minh Mass Rapid Transit Line 2
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Lesson
Close consultations with the executing agency and the implementing agency would minimize or ensure that there are no interministerial misunderstandings that could delay project implementation.

Project Number: 44507-002
Project Name: Public–Private Partnership Support Project
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Lesson
Implementation of complex projects would be enhanced through a careful assessment of whether the necessary institutional and legal infrastructure are in place to ensure that there are no roadblocks that can cause delays in projects getting off the ground.

Project Number: 44507-002
Project Name: Public–Private Partnership Support Project
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Lesson
The main driver of the project was improving the quality of USE to enhance productivity and employability in Viet Nam’s growing economy. However, the revision of curriculum and instructional material preparation was not within the sphere of the project. Instead, the project assumed that curriculum revision and new instructional material will be introduced within the project time frame, but outside the project scope. ADB should have properly identified such a project risk and adequately reflected it in project risk

Project Number: 42275-013
Project Name: Second Upper Secondary Education
Development Project
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Lesson
The project aimed to help improve the employability of the young labor force in Viet Nam. It is important that the government ensures that its policy and investment in USE linked clearly with demand for skills in the job market and business development in the economy.

Project Number: 42275-013
Project Name: Second Upper Secondary Education
Development Project
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The DMF missed some essential data that were important in measuring project effectiveness. As this was a follow-up project, both executing agency and ADB should have had up-to-date data and information. To avoid such issues, ADB needs to make a rigorous assessment of the institutional arrangements, and database benchmarks in the case of long-term commitments and preparation of additional follow-on projects.

Project Number: 42275-013
Project Name: Second Upper Secondary Education
Development Project
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Lesson
It is important to take stock of and learn from other development partners’ experience and learnings in similar projects as they can share valuable lessons to inform project design. A failure to account for previous projects’ lessons can have significant costs in project effectiveness

Project Number: 45098-001
Project Name: Project Preparation and Start-Up Support Facility
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Weak indicators for outcomes and outputs hamper the tracking of project successes. If the project’s indicators had been more specific, measurable, and/or evaluable, problems could have been identified earlier and possibly addressed. This would have likely allowed for mid-course corrections or modifications.

Project Number: 45098-001
Project Name: Project Preparation and Start-Up Support Facility
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Viet Nam’s procurement law prohibits executing and implementing agencies from issuing bidding documents until capital resources for the packages have been allocated. The procurement for complex projects may take more than 1 year from bidding documents’ issuance to contract awards. Applying ADB’s advanced actions can mitigate this procurement risk.

Project Number: 39500-013, 39500-023
Project Name: Ho Chi Minh City Urban Mass Rapid Transit Line 2 Investment Program (Tranches 1 and 2, and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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The executing agency’s involvement is limited during loan review missions. The PCR indicated HCMC People’s Committee lacked ownership of the program as highlighted by the transfer of integrated sustainable urban transport study from the DOT of HCMC to MAUR. The executing agency’s greater involvement and commitment in preparing and implementing mass rapid transit projects can improve ownership and better identify areas of institutional weakness.

Project Number: 39500-013, 39500-023
Project Name: Ho Chi Minh City Urban Mass Rapid Transit Line 2 Investment Program (Tranches 1 and 2, and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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