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A rigorous appraisal establishes the technical soundness of a project’s economic viability and its rationale. For a multisector project designed for remote regions, it is important to undertake a systematic project-level economic analysis to appropriately capture and value the diverse benefits from such a type of project. Such a critical assessment helps refine the methodology, assumptions, parameters, and numeraires of a project-level economic analysis.

Project Number: 43024-013
Project Name: Xinjiang Altay Urban Infrastructure and Environment Improvement Project
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Integrating the design and implementation of projects with broader reform objectives maximize their potential in contributing to the reform process.

Project Number: 43031-013
Project Name: Hunan Xiangjiang Inland Waterway Transport Project
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Effective implementation of environmental safeguards requires a dedicated unit and adequate resources

Project Number: 43031-013
Project Name: Hunan Xiangjiang Inland Waterway Transport Project
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Extensive stakeholder consultation and participation and avoiding or minimizing the acquisition of high-quality farmlands are good land acquisition and resettlement (LAR) practices with a strong replication potential.

Project Number: 43031-013
Project Name: Hunan Xiangjiang Inland Waterway Transport Project
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Development of a barrage and associated infrastructure into a multipurpose facility with navigation, power generation, and flood control functions is highly feasible and leads to multiple benefits.

Project Number: 43031-013
Project Name: Hunan Xiangjiang Inland Waterway Transport Project
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IWT can be an efficient, cost-effective, and green transport alternative, especially for cargo services.

Project Number: 43031-013
Project Name: Hunan Xiangjiang Inland Waterway Transport Project
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Inland waterway transport (IWT) has the potential for wider use in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and other developing countries

Project Number: 43031-013
Project Name: Hunan Xiangjiang Inland Waterway Transport Project
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The review process and systematic monitoring of wetlands restoration project are imperative to deepen the benefits from environmental conservation and sustainable livelihood. A well developed monitoring and evaluation mechanism that would appropriately track the project status permits the timely implementation of project operation. Since project performance rating is one of the outputs of the monitoring and evaluation system, it periodically informs management on any potential risk in portfolio performance.

Project Number: 40685-013
Project Name: Jiangsu Yancheng Wetlands Protection Project
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Soliciting support and involving local stakeholders during project preparation ensures their greater ownership. It offers an opportunity to understand the local socioeconomic and ecological conditions surrounding the livelihoods and needs of the people. This creates effective solutions for biodiversity conservation and wetlands protection. Thus, the inclusion of natural resource users (e.g., farmers) is an essential step to ensuring that local knowledge is integrated into project planning and designing.

Project Number: 40685-013
Project Name: Jiangsu Yancheng Wetlands Protection Project
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Defining appropriate roles for institutions and working arrangements and building institutional capacity can help them respond flexibly to changes during implementation and make the necessary changes in project design and scope.

Project Number: 43025-013
Project Name: Gansu Tianshui Urban Infrastructure Development Project
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Assessing uncertainties and risks thoroughly and taking appropriate mitigation measures are critical for project success. This applies more for urban infrastructure development projects with interrelated components. Adequate preparations to deal with adverse scenarios arising from financial and technical risks can help deal with cancellations and delays in project components.

Project Number: 43025-013
Project Name: Gansu Tianshui Urban Infrastructure Development Project
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Setting-up, collection, and reporting of baseline and performance indicators are essential to strengthen a project’s monitoring framework. Well-defined outputs and outcome indicators, targets, and baselines specific to project intervention areas improve project monitoring and results evaluation (e.g., reporting outcome or output indicators outside project areas hinders the attribution of results to the project).

Project Number: 40634-013
Project Name: Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Environment Improvement Project (Phase II)
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Assessing environmental policies and plans to address air quality at project design can optimize the choice of energy efficient technologies. An in-depth assessment on the state of the enabling and regulatory environment during project preparation helps identify the most efficient technology.

Project Number: 40634-013
Project Name: Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Environment Improvement Project (Phase II)
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Rather than being a lesson learned, this is a useful recommendation. A suggested rephrasing of this into a lesson learned is: Establishing an interagency cooperation between different government authorities and designating representatives with a co-leading role ensure better management and timely resource mobilization, especially when targeted participants (including FDI investors and overseas contractors) are not managed and inspected by the implementing agency but by other government authorities.

Project Number: 48472-001
Project Name: Promotion of Environmentally Sustainable Infrastructure Investment in Asia and the Pacific
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While these are useful lessons learned, they are not connected to “replication” or “scaling up.”

Project Number: 48472-001
Project Name: Promotion of Environmentally Sustainable Infrastructure Investment in Asia and the Pacific
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