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Combination of major expressway construction and link roads improvement, including national and provincial highways and rural roads, contributes to inclusive economic growth. On financing, ADB financed 13.2% of the project cost with the balance provided by the national and provincial governments including loans from the Bank of China and the China Construction Bank. Leveraging funds was a key aspect of ADB financing under the project.

Project Number: 40626-013
Project Name: Yunnan Integrated Road Network Development Project
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The presence of ADB in such a consortium gives added credence to the project’s viability. Project-level lessons. The validation views that community-based routine rural road maintenance by women proved successful resulting in lower costs and improved work. The approach, using performance-based contracting, addressed the funding shortage to maintain rural roads and assisted poor women in rural communities. This approach to routine rural road maintenance should prove to be a model for similar activities in other provinces not only in PRC but also in other countries.

Project Number: 40626-013
Project Name: Yunnan Integrated Road Network Development Project
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There is a need for ADB projects to further strengthen the quality of economic analysis, particularly in the areas of quantification and valuation of economic benefits, and shadow pricing, to strengthen reporting on project performance. The methodology needs to be better understood by all, and more consistency is required by ADB staff, consultants, and the government in such analyses. Perhaps better and more explicit guidelines are called for.

Project Number: 40626-013
Project Name: Yunnan Integrated Road Network Development Project
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Additional consideration should have been given to the provision of the following, which addresses the problems encountered: Future projects can better articulate outcome and impact of urban development to overall inclusive economic development and environmental sustainability of the subregion.

Project Number: 40643-013
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion: Sustainable Tourism Development Project
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The TOR for the project management consultants appeared to focus on training and safeguards monitoring. More technical input should have been included in the TOR to ensure that latest developments in highway design and traffic control technology were included in the highway components and traffic control systems provided.

Project Number: 40643-013
Project Name: Xinjiang Urban Transport and Environmental Improvement Project
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Xinjiang is a region of the PRC with a high ethnic minority population and high unemployment. Hence, more emphasis should have been placed on improving job creation opportunities for the ethnic minority women. For future projects, greater supervision by ADB and the executing and implementing agencies is needed to ensure compliance to safeguards monitoring and reporting—to maximize project benefits.

Project Number: 40643-013
Project Name: Xinjiang Urban Transport and Environmental Improvement Project
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Realistic projections are essential to optimizing transport investments in border regions.

Project Number: 42017-013
Project Name: Second Heilongjiang Road Network Development Project
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Land acquisition and resettlement policies, to be effective, have to be robust and flexible enough to respond changes in development policies.

Project Number: 40642-013
Project Name: Guangxi Wuzhou Urban Development Project
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Advance preparation of the bidding documents improve the reliability of cost estimates.

Project Number: 40642-014
Project Name: Guangxi Wuzhou Urban Development Project
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A thorough market risk assessment is crucial to determining the level of investment in agro-enterprises.

Project Number: 38662-023
Project Name: Henan Sustainable Agriculture and Productivity Improvement Project
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Private sector investments financed by ADB sovereign loans take longer to materialize.

Project Number: 38662-024
Project Name: Henan Sustainable Agriculture and Productivity Improvement Project
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A thorough due diligence of the corporate governance and ownership of enterprises intending to participate in an ADB loan-financed agricultural investment is essential to ensuring the viability of the investment.

Project Number: 38662-025
Project Name: Henan Sustainable Agriculture and Productivity Improvement Project
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Careful consideration of the most suitable modality and implementation arrangements during the design stage boosts a project’s potential for success.

Project Number: 39019-013
Project Name: Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Environmental Improvement
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A thorough review of relevant development plans during project preparation enables the identification of potential risks in turn minimizing the need for changes in scope and attendant delays.

Project Number: 39019-014
Project Name: Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Environmental Improvement
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A strong project steering committee and close coordination with relevant government agencies are essential to smooth project implementation.

Project Number: 39019-015
Project Name: Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Environmental Improvement
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