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Use of consulting services to fill the gaps in implementation capacities improves project performance.

Project Number: 38049-013
Project Name: Urban Infrastructure Development Project
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Land pooling is an innovative and highly effective approach to meeting the land resource requirements of sustainably managing urban development.

Project Number: 38049-013
Project Name: Urban Infrastructure Development Project
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Pioneering activities have plenty of room for multiplier effects.

Project Number: 38049-013
Project Name: Urban Infrastructure Development Project
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Geotechnical conditions, which are very difficult to fully assess during appraisal, can increase the cost as well as technical and commercial uncertainties associated with hydropower development.

Project Number: 37399-013
Project Name: Green Power Development Project
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A thorough impact assessment and monitoring will help mitigate the risks posed by middle-scale HPPs to the environment.

Project Number: 37399-014
Project Name: Green Power Development Project
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Aligning the program design to existing capacities and country−specific requirements minimizes the risk of the program being ambitious in scope and timeframe.

Project Number: 45260-001
Project Name: SASEC Trade Facilitation Program
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Including in the program scope the delivery of outputs that are contingent on nonprogram activities can pose implementation risks to the program.

Project Number: 45260-001
Project Name: SASEC Trade Facilitation Program
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Clear−cut definition of outcome indicators and availability of baseline data facilitate a reliable assessment of program performance.

Project Number: 45260-001
Project Name: SASEC Trade Facilitation Program
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A well−defined focus strengthens the implementation of policy reforms.

Project Number: 45260-001
Project Name: SASEC Trade Facilitation Program
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Promoting customs reform at the regional level is advantageous to developing better understanding and a common vision of customs modernization.

Project Number: 45260-001
Project Name: SASEC Trade Facilitation Program
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Technical assistance is usually expected in order to assist the borrower and theexecuting agency to achieve the program’s policy requirements. On the other hand, having theleverage of a relatively large amount of grant or loan funding can often provide an incentive forgovernments to institute policy measures on a timely basis when they might otherwise bedelayed or avoided due to internal resistance or inertia.

Project Number: 46371-001
Project Name: Strengthening Economic Management Program
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Financial crises may pressure a government to initiate policy reforms, and provide opportunities for development partners to introduce international best practices through policy-based loans. A key challenge in this context is to ensure that reforms introduced in response to emergency conditions are sustained in the post-crisis period. For the program, implementation of policy actions progressed as planned, and tranche 2 policy actions were achieved ahead of schedule, illustrating the broad political and institutional commitment to continued and sustainable reforms.

Project Number: 46371-001
Project Name: Strengthening Economic Management Program
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Policy reforms are largely politically driven. The involvement and roles of government, stakeholders and politicians and the benefits to each party are important considerations in the design and implementation of policy-based loans. With a change in government in 2013, actions initiated under the program could have been altered, reversed or subject to delays or resistance. However, the program initiatives were fully endorsed by the new government, demonstrating that the program was well thought out and designed to transcend politics.

Project Number: 46371-001
Project Name: Strengthening Economic Management Program
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Policy-based loans can be successfully designed to provide an integrated approach to policy reforms by (a) leveraging constructive policy dialogue, (b) incorporating tailored policy interventions, and (c) ensuring implementation support and capacity development through TA

Project Number: 46371-001
Project Name: Strengthening Economic Management Program
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Execution of pilot projects is valuable for (a) assessing ease of implementation, adaptability and potential for full-scale implementation; and (b) for identifying new potential bottlenecks and areas requiring further reforms. The successful pilot testing of a new property valuation method (PVM) demonstrated the potential for substantially increasing local revenues from property taxes as anticipated, but also contributed to potential revisions of the outdated tax laws.

Project Number: 46371-001
Project Name: Strengthening Economic Management Program
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