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A thorough gender analysis and the incorporation of gender targets in the design and monitoring framework (DMFs) are essential to the sound design and implementation of gender action plans (GAPs) in ADB-assisted projects.

Project Number: 29296-013
Project Name: Phuoc Hoa Water Resources Project
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The project preparation should be strengthened to avoid excessive unexpected changes during implementation. Upon detailed design, the estimated civil works cost increased substantially mainly because of price escalation and engineering enhancement. Considering the budget availability, the detailed design was modified with a lower civil works cost and the procurement for one civil works contract was postponed. However, the bids for the civil works contracts was much lower than estimated, about 30%.

Project Number: 41414-043
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion Ben Luc-Long Thanh Expressway Project - Tranche 1
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Both ADB and the government should pay adequate attention and make reasonable arrangements during project preparation. Aside from delays caused by the shortage of funds, the LAR activities were very slow, especially at some interchange locations for civil works. Eventually, the LAR activities were substantially completed in March 2018, about five years later than planned. Expressway projects require large amounts of land, which also lead to substantial resettlement.

Project Number: 41414-043
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion Ben Luc-Long Thanh Expressway Project - Tranche 1
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The government should pay adequate attention to the ADB’s policy and procedure, as well as improve its capacity in procurement. Meanwhile, ADB should strengthen project preparation, including providing more training. In 2011, the Office of Anticorruption and Integrity conducted a proactive integrity review on another expressway project in Viet Nam, which identified some issues. In 2016, the follow-up review determined that 16 of the 21 recommendations had been implemented.

Project Number: 41414-043
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion Ben Luc-Long Thanh Expressway Project - Tranche 1
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In future projects, the counterpart funds should be well and firmly arranged at project preparation, including the fund sources, budgeting, financial management, and coordination among the central government, the VEC, and the local governments. At appraisal, it was arranged that the government counterpart fund would fully finance the cost for LAR. However, the government was not able to provide adequate and timely counterpart funds. The significant financing gap raised several serious issues and concerns and postponed project implementation for at least 2 years.

Project Number: 41414-043
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion Ben Luc-Long Thanh Expressway Project - Tranche 1
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Devoting sufficient attention to the gender action plan and ethnic minority development plan during project implementation through resource support and provision of expertise could result in substantial results on the performance of the p

Project Number: 42182-013
Project Name: Renewable Energy Development and Network Expansion and Rehabilitation for Remote Communes Sector Project
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It is important in designing a project that a more realistic assessment of the expected roles and responsibilities of the executing agencies and project management units is undertaken to establish the capacities of the entities.

Project Number: 42182-013
Project Name: Renewable Energy Development and Network Expansion and Rehabilitation for Remote Communes Sector Project
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A project performance management system, established at the project preparation stage and with baseline data collected and maintained throughout implementation to project completion, is necessary to provide the data for the identification and quantification of economic benefits.

Project Number: 41433-013
Project Name: Transport Connections in Northern Mountainous Provinces Project
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It is important for road investments to develop a counterfactual scenario for the traffic forecast—a “without-project” scenario—to appropriately identify, quantify, and value economic benefits of the project.

Project Number: 41433-013
Project Name: Transport Connections in Northern Mountainous Provinces 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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Appropriate performance indicators should be established to assess public agencies’ monitoring, inspecting, and enforcing services.

Project Number: 39421-013
Project Name: Quality and Safety Enhancement of Agricultural Products and Biogas Development Project
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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 engineering, procurement, and construction contracting model provides the single contractor greater control over project implementation risks.

Project Number: 39595-023, 39595-033
Project Name: Mong Duong 1 Thermal Power Project
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For communications with affected people, coordination with local authorities, and implementation of the resettlement and ethnic minority development plan, it is necessary for the implementing agency to create and deploy a dedicated team .

Project Number: 39595-023, 39595-033
Project Name: Mong Duong 1 Thermal Power Project
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