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There were implementation delays during the initial period of the project, especially in achieving loan effectiveness, recruiting implementation consultants, and awarding contracts. These delays occurred even though advance procurement action had been approved. To minimize delays in achieving loan effectiveness, it is recommended that the practicalities of achieving all proposed loan effectiveness conditions are reviewed and discussed with the borrower and the executing agency during appraisal.

Project Number: 37041-013
Project Name: Second Power Transmission and Distribution Project
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Capacity building (planning). Road Data Collection and Management Unit staff are still unable to complete a road maintenance planning report with solid budget recommendations, which needs to be improved._x005F_x000D__x005F_x000D_Capacity building (implementation). The overall institutional setup for asset management, construction supervision and quality assurance and/or quality control, still needs improvement to be practically usable.

Project Number: 41123-013
Project Name: Road Asset Management Project
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It is easy to overestimate the capacity needed to implement a project that is largely undertaking pilot activities and which also involves significant reforms. At all levels of involvement - executing agency, service providers, contractors, farmers' water user community members - capacity constraints affected project performance. In these circumstances, the project design was both overambitious (e.g., by not focusing on fewer subprojects from the outset) and not rigorous enough (in its analysis of the risks and assumptions inherent in many operations).

Project Number: 34379-013
Project Name: Northwest Irrigation Sector Project
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The rapid launch and accelerated implementation of the project made necessary by the threat that avian influenza would become a pandemic made it difficult to define verifiable indicators for a number of the outputs under the regional capacity building and regional coordination components. A mid-term review of the project would have facilitated a review and updating of the design and monitoring framework.

Project Number: 39662-012
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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The project supported the One Health concept, which emphasizes the links between animal health and human health and emerging animal and human diseases. One Health provided a platform for unprecedented integration of animal, human and ecosystem health issues to fight the threat of avian influenza. The systematic collaboration of technical agencies across disciplines, such as FAO (veterinarians) and WHO (medical doctors) and civil society organizations (community health workers) supported by the project has promoted this concept since the beginning of the project.

Project Number: 39662-012
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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ADB's high-level steering committee demonstrated ADB's institutional support, which enhanced coordination between development partners. The committee, comprising the heads of all regional departments and the Strategy and Policy Department and chaired by the director general of RSDD, provided prompt policy guidance and expedited decisions and actions. It also ensured that the needs of the countries were ascertained and that they had adequate access to project resources.

Project Number: 39662-012
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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ADB was able to use its convening power effectively because it had the necessary in-house technical expertise. Public health experts on ADB's staff with knowledge of emerging infectious diseases were involved in designing and implementing the project. This in-house expertise made the dialogue with the technical and regional agencies to strengthen regional collaboration within and across the animal health and human health sectors possible.

Project Number: 39662-012
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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Each new outbreak of disease confronts projects such as this one, as well as the implementing partners and global community, with a fresh challenge, because its early spread outpaces the gathering of scientific evidence needed to formulate containment policies. Each successive outbreak is followed by an initial opaque period characterized by a frustrating lack of scientific evidence on which to base policies and technical guidance.

Project Number: 39662-012
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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Financial management requires further improvement through training of provincial staff, timely approvals of annual operational plans, and timely liquidation of advances.

Project Number: 36672-012, 37604-022, 38017-012
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion Regional Communicable Diseases Control Project
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Carrying out project administration through existing structures helped speed up project implementation. Delegation of project activities to concerned departments and provinces facilitated implementation. Inclusion of project activities in national and provincial annual operational plans provided better integration of health services and funding.

Project Number: 36672-012, 37604-022, 38017-012
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion Regional Communicable Diseases Control Project
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Participation in regional dialogues and other knowledge management activities has, through learning and sharing, made national and provincial communicable diseases control leaders more competent, cooperative, and competitive. However, participation in internet-based learning and sharing is still at a nascent stage.

Project Number: 36672-012, 37604-022, 38017-012
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion Regional Communicable Diseases Control Project
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The ministries have a strong tradition of top-down training programs to be implemented by the provinces, often in an ad hoc manner. Provincial capacity to plan and coordinate training activities is insufficient. Provinces also lack core capacities in teaching methodology and in monitoring staff performance.

Project Number: 36672-012, 37604-022, 38017-012
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion Regional Communicable Diseases Control Project
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The project was designed to target vulnerable groups, including the poor, women and children, and ethnic minorities. It mainly targeted poor provinces in border areas, including 7 provinces out of 20 with a predominantly ethnic minority population. The project interventions benefited poor women and children, who are more at risk of communicable diseases. However, based on ADB's results framework criteria, the project is rated unsatisfactory for gender equity. It only partially complied with gender and ethnic minority covenants.

Project Number: 36672-012, 37604-022, 38017-012
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion Regional Communicable Diseases Control Project
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The devolution of project administration responsibilities to the resident mission during the project helped facilitate close working relationships between ADB staff and key officials. The experience Electricite? du Cambodge (EDC) gained in this project and the relationships that have developed between the resident mission and counterparts should greatly benefit any future project.

Project Number: 34390-013
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion Transmission Project
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There were implementation delays in the initial period, especially in achieving loan effectiveness, recruiting implementation consultants, and awarding civil works contracts. These delays occurred even though advance procurement action had been approved. The formation of a new government following loan approval was a major factor in this respect, as was the time taken for a new executing agency to climb the learning curve on use of ADB procurement procedures.

Project Number: 34390-013
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion Transmission Project
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