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The project provided sufficient resources to implement gender-focused design features. The provision of adequate resources is critical to both successful design and effective implementation of the gender action plan. The project was an excellent example of how attention to gender equality through a comprehensive and well-targeted gender action plan can lead to practical and strategic gender equality results.

Project Number: 34355-013
Project Name: Central Region Urban Environmental Improvement Project
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Sanitation coverage indicators should be simplified by using nominal targets rather than ratios. Monitoring of coverage ratios requires that two independent parameters - physical outputs and population growth - be known. This is complicated by the continuing growth of the service areas under the control of the concerned utilities.

Project Number: 34355-013
Project Name: Central Region Urban Environmental Improvement Project
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The loan covenants required compliance with most financial covenants within a certain number of months from the loan effectiveness date. It would be better to link the achievement of such covenants to the delivery date of project assets instead of the loan effectiveness date.

Project Number: 34355-013
Project Name: Central Region Urban Environmental Improvement Project
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There are limits to what could be done during preparation for the highway upgrade project which itself will likely experience some difficulty during the early years of commercial operation. Several aspects of the ensuing project, which justify some concern at the time of TA loan implementation, relate to (i) the importance of financial sustainability of the expressway and of VEC more generally—for maintenance of the road, management of operations, and fulfillment of debt-service obligations (PCR para.

Project Number: 33307-023
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion: Kunming–Haiphong Transport Corridor—Noi Bai–Lao Cai Highway Technical Assistance Project
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Project Number: 33301-013, 33301-032
Project Name: Central Region Livelihood Improvement Project
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One significant additional lesson is the importance of monitoring the results of reform programs even after the financial closure of the program, ensuring that the government and its various implementing agencies develop a strong sense of ownership for the reform initiatives. As pointed out in para. 19, these types of SME reform measures would usually take much longer time to achieve real outcomes on the ground.

Project Number: 34344 -013, 38335-013
Project Name: Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Program Cluster (Subprograms 1 and 2)
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Program experience demonstrates that accompanying investment projects in a sector development program loan matter. ADB, in selecting the sector lending modality as a broad-based lending instrument, should give careful consideration to the choice of accompanying projects intrinsically linked with the sector performance in all its dimensions.

Project Number: 32285-013
Project Name: Agriculture Sector Development Program
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No additional lessons

Project Number: 31039-013
Project Name: Teacher Training Project
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No additional lessons

Project Number: 30295
Project Name: Second Financial Sector Program Loan Cluster—Subprograms 1 and 2
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Closer attention to the linkages (or the theory of change) between the provision of infrastructure and the resulting changes in social behavior and development outcomes may have been a more useful basis for project M&E, i.e., what were the behavior changes and could they be observed in project and non-project towns? This lesson applies more broadly to infrastructure projects that identify high level social outcomes and explicit behavior change for their longer-term success.

Project Number: 28315-013
Project Name: Third Provincial Towns Water Supply and Sanitation Project
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The delegation of loan administration to the Viet Nam Resident Mission improved ADB's ability to monitor project progress by allowing for more regular and informal meetings with project management staff in order to obtain information firsthand, rather than relying on quarterly reports, which were sometimes late and/or inadequate.

Project Number: 32273-013
Project Name: Northern Power Transmission Sector Project
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The transmission and substation subprojects that had not been appraised prior to loan presentation took longer to process than planned and call into question the justification for the sector loan approach. All but one subproject had been identified during implementation, and problems that could have been tackled prior to approval led to significant delays and increased administrative effort during project implementation.

Project Number: 32273-013
Project Name: Northern Power Transmission Sector Project
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ADB should not approve funding for projects without independent evaluation and diligent review. ADB's appraisal of Component B of the project was inadequate. This oversight eventually delayed loan closing and caused the underutilization of the ADB loan.

Project Number: 32273-013
Project Name: Northern Power Transmission Sector Project
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The parallel cofinancing of part A with Agence Franc?aise de De?veloppement (AFD) worked well. The underlying reason was AFD acceptance of ADB rules and procedures for equipment procurement, which enabled consistent processing of ADB and AFD procurement packages. The leveraging of ADB's participation greatly assisted completion of the national power sector development program and the arrangements could be used in similar circumstances elsewhere.

Project Number: 32273-013
Project Name: Northern Power Transmission Sector Project
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Investment in civil works and equipment has recurrent budget implications. Monitoring of whether provinces are allocating greater resources to recurrent budgets is difficult as financial tracking is complicated in a devolved financial management system. User fees may help support the ongoing expenditure support for buildings and equipment in the curative sector, but the preventive system has limited capacity to mobilize resources outside of the state budget.

Project Number: 37115-013
Project Name: Health Care in the Central Highlands Project
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