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Climate change risks need to be carefully considered in the design of rural infrastructure. There was inadequate integration of disaster and climate change risks into the design of subprojects in the highly vulnerable project provinces. This was highlighted by the collapse of a 450-meter section of the Trieu Dai–Trieu Do commune road (Quang Tri) during severe storms and flooding in 2011.

Project Number: 37097-013
Project Name: Integrated Rural Development Sector Project in the Central Provinces
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Viet Nam’s procurement law prohibits executing and implementing agencies from issuing bidding documents until capital resources for the packages have been allocated. The procurement for complex projects may take more than 1 year from bidding documents’ issuance to contract awards. Applying ADB’s advanced actions can mitigate this procurement risk.

Project Number: 39500-013, 39500-023
Project Name: Ho Chi Minh City Urban Mass Rapid Transit Line 2 Investment Program (Tranches 1 and 2, and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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The executing agency’s involvement is limited during loan review missions. The PCR indicated HCMC People’s Committee lacked ownership of the program as highlighted by the transfer of integrated sustainable urban transport study from the DOT of HCMC to MAUR. The executing agency’s greater involvement and commitment in preparing and implementing mass rapid transit projects can improve ownership and better identify areas of institutional weakness.

Project Number: 39500-013, 39500-023
Project Name: Ho Chi Minh City Urban Mass Rapid Transit Line 2 Investment Program (Tranches 1 and 2, and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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Well-developed monitoring framework, with logically defined target indicators, can assist the project in measuring its achievements and results objectively

Project Number: 42039-034
Project Name: Power Transmission Investment Program - Tranche 1
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Although ADB has no direct relationship with district people’s committees during program implementation, they are in-charge of land acquisition and resettlement on behalf of the city people’s committee. A program design needs to consider this and plan accordingly to equip the relevant officials with the skills and knowledge for effective land acquisition and resettlement, in accordance with ADB Safeguard Policy Statement (2009).

Project Number: 39500-013, 39500-023
Project Name: Ho Chi Minh City Urban Mass Rapid Transit Line 2 Investment Program (Tranches 1 and 2, and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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The provision of training and capacity building support at the outset is critical to facilitate project preparation and design, specifically on attending to project pertinent areas before implementation.

Project Number: 42039-034
Project Name: Power Transmission Investment Program - Tranche 1
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Particularly for complex and large-scale projects, with significant safeguard issues, government’s commitment to develop a land acquisition and resettlement road map, which in most cases involve the central government, is necessary to complete land acquisition and resettlement before awarding civil works contracts

Project Number: 39500-013, 39500-023
Project Name: Ho Chi Minh City Urban Mass Rapid Transit Line 2 Investment Program (Tranches 1 and 2, and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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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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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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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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It is particularly important for projects agreements to specify the financing modality of new facilities to be established to avoid or minimize challenges that could hamper implementation.

Project Number: 45098-001
Project Name: Project Preparation and Startup Support Facility
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Identifying and developing a set of core projects to be funded by loans from a project preparation facility could enhance the project readiness of the facility and assist with its successful implementation.

Project Number: 45098-001
Project Name: Project Preparation and Startup Support Facility
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