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It is important to prepare meaningful monitoring frameworks with relevant indicators to assess energy efficiency gains objectively.

Project Number: 46265-001
Project Name: Energy Efficiency for Ho Chi Minh City Water Supply
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During the design stage, developing the institutional and technical capacity of executing agencies with no previous experience in new specialized technology helps support the initial administration of project activities.

Project Number: 46265-001
Project Name: Energy Efficiency for Ho Chi Minh City Water Supply
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Timely preparation of bidding documents and adequate technical support for the evaluation of bids are critical to streamline the implementation of the project.

Project Number: 46265-001
Project Name: Energy Efficiency for Ho Chi Minh City Water Supply
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For consistency in economic analyses, a common methodology must be used by all—the ADB staff, consultants, and the government.

Project Number: 41462-013
Project Name: Comprehensive Socioeconomic Urban Development Project in Viet Tri, Hung Yen, and Dong Dang
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There is a need for ADB projects to further strengthen the quality of economic analysis.

Project Number: 41462-013
Project Name: Comprehensive Socioeconomic Urban Development Project in Viet Tri, Hung Yen, and Dong Dang
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The time required for selecting the appropriate technology and the completion of detailed design should be incorporated into the implementation schedule and reflected in the DMF.

Project Number: 41462-013
Project Name: Comprehensive Socioeconomic Urban Development Project in Viet Tri, Hung Yen, and Dong Dang
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Viet Nam’s strategy to decentralize development projects to the local level can be successfully implemented due to the readiness and capacity of local institutions and staff; this strategy can be adapted or followed in other regions and sector of the economy.

Project Number: 41462-013
Project Name: Comprehensive Socioeconomic Urban Development Project in Viet Tri, Hung Yen, and Dong Dang
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The economic value of existing water supplies, the critical factor in determining the project economic performance, was inadequately defined. At the very least, analysis should have been undertaken using realistic time savings resulting from reticulated water for women and children, with the basis for valuing time clearly outlined.

Project Number: 40364-013
Project Name: Central Region Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project
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More attention is needed to the selection of a more specialized set of objectives and components in the design of water supply and sanitation sector projects.

Project Number: 40364-013
Project Name: Central Region Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project
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The outcome indicators in the DMF appear to measure the socioeconomic performance of Thanh Hoa City instead of project outcomes. Increases in industrial productivity, tourist arrivals, and employment rates cannot be uniquely ascribed to interventions financed by the project and are not adequate as outcome indicators.

Project Number: 41013-013
Project Name: Thanh Hoa City Comprehensive Socioeconomic Development Project
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Appraisal estimates of FIRR as an example need to be constantly reviewed in the course of project implementation—appraisal methodological errors should not be discovered during a completion mission.Sector-level lessons. The special features of the project design needs to be further promoted where possible.

Project Number: 41013-013
Project Name: Thanh Hoa City Comprehensive Socioeconomic Development Project
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To appropriately assess the progress and outcome of the project, project design must incorporate the measurable benefits to beneficiaries at the outcome level, and in general, baselines must be established for all targets.

Project Number: 30286-013
Project Name: Central Region Small and Medium Towns Development Project
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Delays in recruiting consultants resulted in delays of subsequent activities (detailed design, resettlement planning, environmental management planning, and preparing bidding documents). Despite the start-up delays, the project achieved the targeted outputs, demonstrating that the executing agencies at the provincial level have the capacity for project implementation and the decentralized approach to project preparation and implementation is appropriate.

Project Number: 30286-013
Project Name: Central Region Small and Medium Towns Development Project
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The project team must ensure adequate estimates of price contingencies during project preparation.

Project Number: 34355-013
Project Name: Central Region Urban Environmental Improvement Project
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The DMF should include usable performance indicators and targets at impact level, and impact statements need to be linked to outcome statement and to outputs that will contribute to the achievement of the impact.

Project Number: 34355-013
Project Name: Central Region Urban Environmental Improvement Project
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