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No new lessons

Project Number: 39655-013
Project Name: Xinjiang Regional Road Improvement Project (Korla–Kuqa Section)
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The adequacy and appropriateness of project design have to be tailored to the project’s ultimate objectives and complexities. The PCR provided weak justification of the relevance of the extension and the insufficiency of indicators.

Project Number: 39662-012, 39662-022
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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The 299.7 km four-lane expressway was constructed along the existing two-lane class II national highway (G314) and about 85.0 km of the existing highway was intermittently utilized as a part of the expressway. The advantages of using the existing road were the low cost of construction and less land acquisition and resettlement. However, there were disadvantages. First, using the existing road resulted in higher maintenance costs.

Project Number: 39655-013
Project Name: Xinjiang Regional Road Improvement Project (Korla - Kuqa Section)
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Lesson
Special features. The inclusion of special features in project design should have been supported by careful formulation within the existing institutional context and allocation of sufficient funding to ensure adequate implementation and achievement of expected results.

Project Number: 39149-013
Project Name: Western Guangxi Roads Development Project
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ADB's high-level steering committee demonstrated ADB's institutional support, which enhanced coordination between development partners. The committee, comprising the heads of all regional departments and the Strategy and Policy Department and chaired by the director general of RSDD, provided prompt policy guidance and expedited decisions and actions. It also ensured that the needs of the countries were ascertained and that they had adequate access to project resources.

Project Number: 39662-012
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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ADB was able to use its convening power effectively because it had the necessary in-house technical expertise. Public health experts on ADB's staff with knowledge of emerging infectious diseases were involved in designing and implementing the project. This in-house expertise made the dialogue with the technical and regional agencies to strengthen regional collaboration within and across the animal health and human health sectors possible.

Project Number: 39662-012
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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Lesson
Each new outbreak of disease confronts projects such as this one, as well as the implementing partners and global community, with a fresh challenge, because its early spread outpaces the gathering of scientific evidence needed to formulate containment policies. Each successive outbreak is followed by an initial opaque period characterized by a frustrating lack of scientific evidence on which to base policies and technical guidance.

Project Number: 39662-012
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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Lesson
The rapid launch and accelerated implementation of the project made necessary by the threat that avian influenza would become a pandemic made it difficult to define verifiable indicators for a number of the outputs under the regional capacity building and regional coordination components. A mid-term review of the project would have facilitated a review and updating of the design and monitoring framework.

Project Number: 39662-012
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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The project supported the One Health concept, which emphasizes the links between animal health and human health and emerging animal and human diseases. One Health provided a platform for unprecedented integration of animal, human and ecosystem health issues to fight the threat of avian influenza. The systematic collaboration of technical agencies across disciplines, such as FAO (veterinarians) and WHO (medical doctors) and civil society organizations (community health workers) supported by the project has promoted this concept since the beginning of the project.

Project Number: 39662-012
Project Name: Prevention and Control of Avian Influenza in Asia and the Pacific
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Lesson
No additional lessons

Project Number: 35337-013
Project Name: Guangxi Roads Development II Project
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No new lessons

Project Number: 32336-013
Project Name: Western Yunnan Roads Development Project
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The other lesson learned from the project is that the award of contracts to low price bidders can result in contract management difficulties and implementation delays. To win a contract, the bidders, who are not familiar with Fe?de?ration internationale des inge?nieurs-conseils (FIDIC) contract and contract management in ADB-funded projects, offer low prices and take it for granted that the contract amount would be increased through contract variations during implementation.

Project Number: 35337-013
Project Name: Guangxi Roads Development II Project
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The difficulties encountered in implementing the intercounty road were attributed to the low capacity of local counties in project implementation. The officers in the Baise Communications Bureau and Baise Highway Administration Bureau had no experience in implementing multilateral development bank-financed projects, particularly in procurement, disbursement, and project management. The lesson is that proactive efforts and timely actions should be undertaken to build the capacity of officers in local counties when they are responsible for local road components.

Project Number: 35337-013
Project Name: Guangxi Roads Development II Project
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Proactively treating geological hazards before cutting and excavating the earthworks proved to be more effective and cost-efficient than reactively handling the issue when excavation had been completed.

Project Number: 32336-013
Project Name: Western Yunnan Roads Development Project
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To effectively utilize consulting services, a clear and specific terms of reference for each consultant needs to be prepared with the expected outputs before consultants' mobilization to the project.

Project Number: 32336-013
Project Name: Western Yunnan Roads Development Project
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