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Need for market-based remuneration. The government's cost norm is too low and not competitive. Because of this, recruiting experienced senior national consultants (with the exception of retired government employees) remains a challenge. Training allowances are also too low. This also applies to its training allowances, which discourages participation by staff who must travel from where they live and work to take part. Future projects should include a clause that allows remuneration for consultants and allowances for staff training to be market-based.

Project Number: 34348-013
Project Name: Preventive Health System Support Project
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Phased approach. Implementing the project across almost four dozen provinces and such a wide geographical area led to challenges both in providing laboratory equipment in a timely manner and in ensuring that training was provided in the use of this equipment. A phased approach prioritizing provinces with stronger technical capacities would ensure a closer link between the provision of equipment and training thus increase efficiency.

Project Number: 34348-013
Project Name: Preventive Health System Support Project
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Consideration of local government fiscal capacity. The project originally required participating provinces to provide funds to upgrade the PPMCs (provincial preventive medicine centers), including their laboratories. While local government commitment to preventive health care is significant in Viet Nam, the fiscal situation of some provinces does not allow investments of the scale that was needed. ADB needs to carefully consider the local costs of such infrastructure projects and the fiscal ability of local governments to meet them before committing to an investment.

Project Number: 34348-013
Project Name: Preventive Health System Support Project
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The adequacy and appropriateness of project design have to be tailored to the project’s ultimate objectives and complexities. The PCR provided weak justification of the relevance of the extension and the insufficiency of indicators.

Project Number: 39662-012, 39662-022
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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Having teacher and school management training in local schools could result in engaging high-performing leaders and local managers as trainers.

Project Number: 28309-013
Project Name: Upper Secondary Education Development Project
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Requiring project preparatory technical consultants to coordinate closely with the government agencies to ensure compatibility of project design with the sector strategy of the government is a standard operating procedure, yet is often taken for granted.

Project Number: 28309-013
Project Name: Upper Secondary Education Development Project
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Pilot studies are a worthwhile project subcomponent as they map a path for introducing innovations and for building capacity within local agencies.

Project Number: 28309-013
Project Name: Upper Secondary Education Development Project
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No additional lesson.

Project Number: 38581-022
Project Name: HIV/AIDS Prevention among Youth 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 importance of establishing a baseline data at an early stage of project implementation, or during project preparation to enable the accurate evaluation of the project’s results is a recurring issue that warrants serious attention.

Project Number: 37115-013
Project Name: Health Care in the Central Highlands Project
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ADB needs to ensure that the resources, e.g. the RoSy Pavement Management Systems it offers are indeed needed by the implementing agencies.

Project Number: 34356-013
Project Name: Central Region Transport Networks Improvement Sector Project
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Given the challenges of coordination in Viet Nam and the financial sector generally, when a policy action requires coordination between two or more agencies, ADB and the government must first ensure that the coordination mechanism and institutional infrastructure have been established and areworking as envisioned. In the initial stage, ADB staff, including those from the Resident Mission, should participate in meetings and discussions. This is to prevent the existence of a coordination mechanism only on paper. [Main text, para. 43(iv)]

Project Number: 37577-013
Project Name: Third Financial Sector Program Loan
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For capacity building, technical assistance grants are likely to be insufficient. An ad hoc approach to training is insufficient and can be counterproductive. Instead, ADB and the government should discuss the possibility of either a project loan to support capacity building or of Ministry of Finance earmarking a portion of the program loan to fund the capacity building initiatives of a structured medium-term program through the government budget process. Given its importance, this can be considered as a policy action in the policy matrix. [Main text, para. 43(ix)]

Project Number: 37577-013
Project Name: Third Financial Sector Program Loan
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These indicators should be linked to the policy matrix, as reforms should contribute to the achievement of these indicators. When a particular reform is delayed, then additional technical assistance resources will need to be provided to address the problem.

Project Number: 37577-013
Project Name: Third Financial Sector Program Loan
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