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Lesson
Local governments in Viet Nam’s secondary towns and cities have high implementation capacity.

Project Number: 41013-013
Project Name: Thanh Hoa City Comprehensive Socioeconomic Development Project
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Recruitment of consulting firms by a government agency in Viet Nam is time-consuming.

Project Number: 41013-013
Project Name: Thanh Hoa City Comprehensive Socioeconomic Development Project
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Reliable cost estimates are essential to smooth project implementation.

Project Number: 41013-013
Project Name: Thanh Hoa City Comprehensive Socioeconomic Development Project
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Cofinancing could reduce flexibility.

Project Number: 41013-013
Project Name: Thanh Hoa City Comprehensive Socioeconomic Development Project
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Consideration of the relationships and coordination practice among key agencies strengthens the feasibility of implementation arrangements.

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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Executing agencies' recruitment of consultants remains time-consuming and was the main reason for start-up delays. This problem is not specific to the project but is common in all ADB-financed projects in Viet Nam. Delays in recruiting consultants result in delay of such project activities as detailed design, resettlement planning, environmental management planning, and preparing bidding documents.

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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The calculation of the economic and financial internal rates of return at appraisal should be made in a manner that facilitates their re-evaluation at project completion.

Project Number: 34355-013
Project Name: Central Region Urban Environmental Improvement Project
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The project provided sufficient resources to implement gender-focused design features. The provision of adequate resources is critical to both successful design and effective implementation of the gender action plan. The project was an excellent example of how attention to gender equality through a comprehensive and well-targeted gender action plan can lead to practical and strategic gender equality results.

Project Number: 34355-013
Project Name: Central Region Urban Environmental Improvement Project
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Sanitation coverage indicators should be simplified by using nominal targets rather than ratios. Monitoring of coverage ratios requires that two independent parameters - physical outputs and population growth - be known. This is complicated by the continuing growth of the service areas under the control of the concerned utilities.

Project Number: 34355-013
Project Name: Central Region Urban Environmental Improvement Project
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The loan covenants required compliance with most financial covenants within a certain number of months from the loan effectiveness date. It would be better to link the achievement of such covenants to the delivery date of project assets instead of the loan effectiveness date.

Project Number: 34355-013
Project Name: Central Region Urban Environmental Improvement Project
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The recruitment of consultants by executing agencies remains time-consuming. This problem is not specific to the project, but common in all ADB-financed projects in Viet Nam. Delays in consultant recruitment result in delays of the entire associated project. In the future, advance actions and project readiness filters should be applied to minimize start-up delays.

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