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Continuity and stability in project officers are essential elements for successful implementation, especially during the early implementation phases. Delegation of implementation responsibility to the resident mission at an early stage of the project cycle is also good practice, provided locally recruited staff have sufficient familiarity with ADB operational and procurement procedures.

Project Number: 34476-016
Project Name: Gansu Clean Energy Development Project
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For Asian developing countries with a well developed local capacity in electric power or other infrastructure sectors, partnership with an international consulting firm in the implementation arrangements can be an effective mechanism to enable the transfer of state-of-the-art management and operational practices to national companies and agencies.

Project Number: 34476-015
Project Name: Gansu Clean Energy Development Project
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Addressing adequately the social and environmental impact of hydropower development projects during preparation and making sure the local communities affected by the development participate in the benefits of the investment is an important lesson to ensure longer term project sustainability. To achieve this goal, funding needs to be committed before loan approval to ensure that such issues will be addressed during implementation, and independent monitoring mechanisms put in place to measure the impact on local communities.

Project Number: 34476-014
Project Name: Gansu Clean Energy Development Project
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Strong project ownership is essential for successful implementation. In evaluating project ownership, attention must be given during appraisal not only to investment planning priorities but also to whether counterpart funding has been committed, key staff are in place, coordination mechanisms across and within different government levels are working effectively, and an institutional capacity exists to address social and environmental issues affecting the project’s long-term sustainability.

Project Number: 34476-013
Project Name: Gansu Clean Energy Development Project
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Development projects can influence local people in work principles and have a significant benefit on local communities at little cost. Before the project, few people left their communities in search of jobs. Now most young people do, and over 30% of migrants are female.

Project Number: 39652-023
Project Name: Gansu Heihe Rural Hydropower Development Investment Program– Erlongshan Hydropower Project
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No new lessons.

Project Number: 34472-013, 34472-012
Project Name: Wuhan Wastewater Management Project
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No new lessons.

Project Number: 33437-013
Project Name: Songhua River Flood Management Sector Project
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Affected persons should not be displaced before they have signed compensation agreements. This was strictly applied in Fuzhou and is now a national regulation.

Project Number: 35340-013
Project Name: Fuzhou Environmental Improvement Project
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Sufficient budget and institutional coordination should be available to minimize the transition period between the completion of resettlement housing and demolition of structures, and relocation of affected persons to their new residences.

Project Number: 35340-013
Project Name: Fuzhou Environmental Improvement Project
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Extra attention and resources should be allocated to projects involving displacement of unregistered or illegal properties.

Project Number: 35340-013
Project Name: Fuzhou Environmental Improvement Project
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Public announcement of the resettlement cutoff date and its notification to affected villagers should be supported by robust evidence of the established cutoff date such as unambiguous aerial photographs. Local authorities should also try to prevent people from building illegal structures and should rigorously enforce the cutoff date.

Project Number: 35340-013
Project Name: Fuzhou Environmental Improvement Project
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Alternative design options to avoid or minimize house demolition and resettlement should be explored thoroughly during detailed design and project implementation, particularly if the project is located in a rapidly urbanizing area. In the Fuzhou project, design options were largely limited by technical parameters such as flood discharge flows and gradients.

Project Number: 35340-013
Project Name: Fuzhou Environmental Improvement Project
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Projects that are intermingled with domestically financed development projects should be avoided. Many cities have elaborate local land acquisition and resettlement regulations that often make it difficult for ADB projects to implement land acquisition and resettlement independently from the other development projects. In the case of Fuzhou, the ADB-financed project and the domestically financed projects affected the same villages, and this caused some confusion and dissatisfaction in the affected villages.

Project Number: 35340-013
Project Name: Fuzhou Environmental Improvement Project
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The government's land acquisition plan should be prepared well before project approval so that all preparatory administrative procedures are completed ahead of physical implementation of projects.

Project Number: 35340-013
Project Name: Fuzhou Environmental Improvement Project
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Project design and resettlement planning should be carefully sequenced with the government's development plan using a realistic implementation schedule.

Project Number: 35340-013
Project Name: Fuzhou Environmental Improvement Project
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