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Access to improved technology (e.g., seedlings, management practices); well-defined property rights; public pest and disease management; and access to forest products’ markets, could altogether help improve forest sector productivity and its attractiveness to investors.

Project Number: 42022-013
Project Name: Jiangxi Sustainable Forest Ecosystem Development Project
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Loans could be more preferrable to direct subsidies as these provide better value for money on public funds utilization point of view.

Project Number: 42022-013
Project Name: Jiangxi Sustainable Forest Ecosystem Development Project
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Special financial instruments in the forestry sector, with longer tenor and grace periods, could help improve the financial position of beneficiaries since investments take longer to generate revenue.

Project Number: 42022-013
Project Name: Jiangxi Sustainable Forest Ecosystem Development Project
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Timely safeguard interventions and impact assessment with implementation plans provide an immense value to the project design.

Project Number: 40017-013
Project Name: Qingdao Water Resources and Wetland Protection Project
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Including dedicated safeguards staff in the project core team is critical to avoid safeguards weaknesses in complying with the ADB’s safeguard policy, project design, and implementation.

Project Number: 40017-013
Project Name: Qingdao Water Resources and Wetland Protection Project
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Complex projects with integrated objectives, such as this project, would benefit from a dedicated mechanism of monitoring, evaluation, and learning; and instituting data collection for indicators directly linked with the targets.

Project Number: 40017-013
Project Name: Qingdao Water Resources and Wetland Protection Project
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Projects that address such complexities as fragmented approach to development have an opportunity and a huge potential to become models for similar activities in the country or region; therefore, they must explicitly build into the project design mechanisms for disseminating the experiences and lessons—both successful and otherwise.

Project Number: 40017-013
Project Name: Qingdao Water Resources and Wetland Protection Project
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Projects should take the opportunity during MTRs to review, assess data needs (especially in integrated projects), take feedback from all stakeholders (including project beneficiaries), and update the results framework (either way) by reassessing and strengthening indicators.

Project Number: 40017-013
Project Name: Qingdao Water Resources and Wetland Protection Project
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It is important to ensure that targets are realistic in their timing, achievable within the span of control of the project activities and can be directly attributed to project outcomes and outputs.

Project Number: 40017-013
Project Name: Qingdao Water Resources and Wetland Protection Project
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It is essential to adopt an appropriate monitoring framework with relevant indicators to measure project results.

Project Number: 40524-013
Project Name: Shandong Energy Efficiency and Emission Reduction Project
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The broad range of enterprises and technologies requires commercial banks to expand their knowledge and understanding of energy efficiency technologies to broaden project origination and monitoring skills.

Project Number: 40524-013
Project Name: Shandong Energy Efficiency and Emission Reduction Project
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Technical advisory and capacity building are critical in ensuring that commercial banks are able to assess risks and returns associated with energy efficiency investments.

Project Number: 40524-013
Project Name: Shandong Energy Efficiency and Emission Reduction Project
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Financial intermediation arrangements can help build energy efficiency lending portfolios of commercial banks.

Project Number: 40524-013
Project Name: Shandong Energy Efficiency and Emission Reduction Project
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The PRC’s energy market is dominated by government oversight and regulation, rather than market principles; flexibility is therefors required to adapt project implementation to evolving market conditions and government priorities.

Project Number: 40524-013
Project Name: Shandong Energy Efficiency and Emission Reduction Project
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Deviation from the project administration guidelines creates confusion about who is responsible for implementing the subprojects and what procurement guidelines to use; it also creates problems in monitoring project implementation.

Project Number: 42012-013
Project Name: Chongqing Urban-Rural Infrastructure Development Demonstration Project
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