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Project targets must be clearly defined and adjusted if found unrealistic.

Project Number: 34341-013
Project Name: Forests for Livelihood Improvement in the Central Highlands Sector Project
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Government capacity and willingness, and the time required to undertake sector reforms need to be assessed and carefully considered in the project design.

Project Number: 34341-013
Project Name: Forests for Livelihood Improvement in the Central Highlands Sector Project
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Projects with community infrastructure components should have social safeguards specialists during review missions.

Project Number: 34341-013
Project Name: Forests for Livelihood Improvement in the Central Highlands Sector Project
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Market sounding during project preparation will foster more realistic cost estimates.

Project Number: 39595-013
Project Name: Mong Duong 1 Thermal Power Project
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Early designation of a dedicated team and effective stakeholder consultation and coordination facilitate the smooth implementation of Asian Development Bank (ADB) safeguard requirements.

Project Number: 39595-013
Project Name: Mong Duong 1 Thermal Power Project
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No additional lessons

Project Number: 41360-013, 41360-014
Project Name: Second Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Development Program
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When preparing a project for Board approval, ADB should have a thorough knowledge of government procedures for approvals needed to begin project implementation. In the case of this project, ADB should have delayed Board approval until government approval was obtained.

Project Number: 39175-013
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion Kunming–Hai Phong Transport Corridor: Yen Vien–Lao Cai Railway Upgrading Project
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Project benefits, particularly those that are supposed to address poverty concerns, should be explicitly identified and quantified at the project preparatory stage.

Project Number: 39175-013
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion Kunming–Hai Phong Transport Corridor: Yen Vien–Lao Cai Railway Upgrading Project
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A flexible financing arrangement, coupled with a robust cost estimate, enables a project to respond to foreseeable cost increases.

Project Number: 39175-013
Project Name: GMS Kunming-Hai Phong Transport Corridor (Viet Nam) - Yen Vien-Lao Cai Railway Upgrading Project
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Railway rehabilitation requires a comprehensive, system-wide package of interventions.

Project Number: 39175-013
Project Name: GMS Kunming-Hai Phong Transport Corridor (Viet Nam) - Yen Vien-Lao Cai Railway Upgrading Project
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No new lessons

Project Number: 42235-013, 42235-023
Project Name: Microfinance Development Program (Subprograms 1 and 2)
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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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Through its compliance with the agreed Microfinance Development Program (MDP) policy actions, the government made remarkable progress during 2008-2014 in creating a conducive policy and regulatory environment for developing inclusive and sustainable microfinance. Despite this, the issuing of implementing rules and regulations (IRRs) related to the licensing requirements for microfinance institutions (MFIs) is still pending. The government attributes the delay to its desire to await a Prime Minister Decision on unlicensed microfinance operations.

Project Number: 42235-013, 42235-023
Project Name: Microfinance Development Program - Subprograms 1 and 2: Program Completion Report
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Implementation has also revealed an urgent need to enhance the information technology (IT) capabilities of the PCFs and MFIs so that the credit reporting and information exchange can be improved. The MDP helped the SBV standardize the reporting requirements for PCFs and MFIs and set up the microfinance information exchange system within the National Credit Information Center (CIC). However, a majority of these small- sized credit institutions lack the skills and standard IT systems to properly comply with the new reporting standards.

Project Number: 42235-013, 42235-023
Project Name: Microfinance Development Program - Subprograms 1 and 2: Program Completion Report
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