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Most urban development projects are rarely financially viable if they have large, nonrevenuegenerating components. Thus, institutional capacity becomes more crucial to ensure their sustainability

Project Number: 44020-013
Project Name: Gansu Urban Infrastructure Development
and Wetland Protection Project
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Strong government commitment and adequate budgetary allocations for the O&M of project facilities are critical in ensuring the sustainability of project results.

Project Number: 44020-013
Project Name: Gansu Urban Infrastructure Development
and Wetland Protection Project
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Regular monitoring and reporting, including functional project performance monitoring system, can help in quickly adjusting to changes in project scopes, and in assessing achievements at completion.

Project Number: 44020-013
Project Name: Gansu Urban Infrastructure Development
and Wetland Protection Project
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Consideration of the range of alternative modalities helps strengthen the project formulation phase. In the case of this project, this type of assessment could have examined the merits of a project investment vis-à-vis a sector loan in the choice of the modality. If this project had been formulated as a sector project, each of the diverse candidate subprojects would have been analyzed prior to investment, allowing those that were economically unviable or potentially damaging (from an environmental or social point of view) to be dropped and substituted by more viable ones.

Project Number: 43049-013
Project Name: Comprehensive Agricultural Development Project
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In this instance, the executing agency was competent and major issues did not arise. With a less experienced executing agency, the geographic and sectoral scope and range might have proved too challenging without the front-loading of due diligence and screening that a sector project provides.

Project Number: 43049-013
Project Name: Comprehensive Agricultural Development Project
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Specific requirements for land acquisition and resettlement need to be completed prior to project implementation. Obtaining the necessary clearances and permits early on to meet the pertinent safeguards compliances can help in identifying any risk or grievance issues that can potentially delay the execution of project activities. Under the project, some components were substantially delayed due to the prolonged site turnover including the issuance of the appropriate permits, such as coastal land-use certificate, planning and construction permits, and utility lines.

Project Number: 42010-013
Project Name: Guangxi Southwestern Cities Development Project
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Lesson
Adequate project related preparatory work, planning and risk assessment are crucial to improving project readiness. These efforts include assessment of the technical and administrative capacity of the executing and implementing agencies. Under the project, any reorganization of the agency, if necessary, needs to be clearly arranged and completed prior to project start-up. This helps the agencies in addressing the implementation issues on time. Likewise, skills training of agencies involved in the implementation enhances the preparation and quality-at-entry of the project.

Project Number: 42010-013
Project Name: Guangxi Southwestern Cities Development Project
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Support to improve the agencies’ institutional capacity involved in the preparatory work and implementation is necessary to ensure smooth execution of project activities and progress will remain on track. For example, project experience highlighted the required managerial support for agencies in view of the challenges encountered in implementing the social and environmental mitigation measures and related delays.

Project Number: 40684 013
Project Name: Forestry and Ecological Restoration Project in Three Northwest Provinces
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Lesson
Flexible implementation arrangements helps in enhancing a project’s relevance and results. In some cases, project relevance may change during implementation due to lower demand or unexpected government policy that subsequently may require a change in project scope and targets. This provides an opportunity to modify or correct the project design to strengthen its intended outcome at appraisal. For instance, the project was aimed to improve the carbon market development and preparedness for carbon market participation.

Project Number: 40684 013
Project Name: Forestry and Ecological Restoration Project in Three Northwest Provinces
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Changes in scope and subsequent revision of the DMF with board approval are critical in ensuring that the project’s intended outcome can be achieved. Adjusting the DMF and its indicators should be made as soon as the need becomes apparent, ideally during the early stage of implementation or at the mid-term review. In particular, a mid-term review provides an opportune time to conduct an in-depth assessment of whether a project is likely to achieve its outcome and outputs, and whether the output and outcome targets remain pertinent for the project context and development objective.

Project Number: 38594-013
Project Name: Guiyang Integrated Water Resources Management (Sector) Project
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A strong and clear DMF is crucial for tracking project results. It is only possible to measure progress if the DMF has strong and clear performance indicators and targets which include definitions and baselines. During the design stage, these components need to be clearly defined to strengthen project readiness. At completion, the clear indicators and targets will provide an appropriate measurement of results that can reflect the actual achievements at completion.

Project Number: 38594-013
Project Name: Guiyang Integrated Water Resources Management (Sector) Project
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Lesson
The importance of project preparation and quality at entry is of utmost importance for similar projects in the future. A better prepared project can reduce issues that may potentially impede implementation at the early stages of implementation.

Project Number: 39321-013
Project Name: Shaanxi Qinling Biodiversity Conservation and Demonstration Project
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Lesson
The project experiences have illustrated the potential financial gains from improved environmental management and conservation. The project has demonstrated enhanced coordination in public finance allocation across institutions in charge of the environment and natural resources. Given the likelihood that such operations will grow in the region, the experience of this project will be valuable.

Project Number: 39321-013
Project Name: Shaanxi Qinling Biodiversity Conservation and Demonstration Project
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The government’s commitment and ownership strengthen the project’s credibility. Providing timely response and adequate support from start-up to completion are critical in overcoming the implementation difficulties in various occasions. For instance, the PMO’s leadership could have helped ensurethat assistance was provided on time to implementing agencies. This, in turn, would help in easing delays in the procurement activities and implementation of subprojects.

Project Number: 42383-023
Project Name: Shanxi Small Cities and Towns Development Demonstration Sector Project
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Lesson
A project’s medium-term review (MTR provides an opportunity to reassess and modify a project’s DMF, in terms of realistic performance targets, configuration of components and/or outputs, subprojects’ selection, and timeframe of implementation. Project team could strive to review all project’s aspects during an MTR in addition to focusing on project administration and changes in scope.

Project Number: 42383-023
Project Name: Shanxi Small Cities and Towns Development Demonstration Sector Project
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