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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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Procurement should be exhaustive. Developing a procurement strategy with proper analysis of market availability, operating environment, including capacity assessments of executing and implementing agencies, and risk management will help the project achieve its intended results in a timely manner. Where a project requires participation of government-owned universities or research centers, attention should be paid at project appraisal to para. 1.13 (c) of ADB’s Guidelines on the Use of Consultants (2013, as amended from time to time).

Project Number: 45406-001
Project Name: Low Carbon Agricultural Support Project
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Sound project design requires adequate technical input and open communication with key participants and/or stakeholders. Greater technical input was necessary to appraise the government’s proposed components during project preparation. Specifically, the design flaws in output 2, credit lines for biogas value chains and other climate-smart agriculture waste management investments, would have been avoided if the processing team had access to livestock, environmental, and institutional specialists with appropriate country knowledge to support the financial management specialist.

Project Number: 45406-001
Project Name: Low Carbon Agricultural Support Project
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Research activities must be undertaken early in project implementation. Where research is needed to guide the introduction of new technologies, such research is better undertaken in advance of a project so that results can be incorporated in the project design. In this project, the 5-year project time frame was too short in undertaking research, evaluating results, and effecting replication. This time frame was further exacerbated by denying the participation of government-owned research institutes in the research program.

Project Number: 45406-001
Project Name: Low Carbon Agricultural Support Project
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It is important to prepare meaningful monitoring frameworks with relevant indicators to assess energy efficiency gains objectively.

Project Number: 40238-023
Project Name: Productive Rural Infrastructure Sector Project in the Central Highlands
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support for the evaluation of bids are critical to streamline the implementation of the project. 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: 40238-023
Project Name: Productive Rural Infrastructure Sector Project in the Central Highlands
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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: 40238-023
Project Name: Productive Rural Infrastructure Sector Project in the Central Highlands
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Viet Nam’s current e-procurement system is highly efficient.

Project Number: 40238-023
Project Name: Productive Rural Infrastructure Sector Project in the Central Highlands
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Adequate supervision is a precondition for ensuring the timely completion and handover of fully operational, quality infrastructure

Project Number: 40238-023
Project Name: Productive Rural Infrastructure Sector Project in the Central Highlands
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Formal organizations and institutional arrangements are necessary to maintain rural infrastructure in good condition.

Project Number: 40238-023
Project Name: Productive Rural Infrastructure Sector Project in the Central Highlands
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The design standards of productive rural infrastructure (PRI) need to be consistently updated to adequately address the risk factors associated with climate change and the shifting land use patterns.

Project Number: 40238-023
Project Name: Productive Rural Infrastructure Sector Project in the Central Highlands
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Monitoring the incidence of foodborne diseases and pests, and access to export markets is important to adequately design and measure the project’s results.

Project Number: 39421-013
Project Name: Quality and Safety Enhancement of Agricultural Products and Biogas Development Project
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Monitoring the project’s impact on farmer’s livelihoods, particularly agricultural income, is useful to understand their intention to adopt GAP, new crop varieties, or certification of their production, and to determine the possibilities to scale-up the intervention.

Project Number: 39421-013
Project Name: Quality and Safety Enhancement of Agricultural Products and Biogas Development Project
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The management of food quality and safety requires actions beyond the development of a regulatory framework.

Project Number: 39421-013
Project Name: Quality and Safety Enhancement of Agricultural Products and Biogas Development Project
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