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Requiring project performance management system (PPMS) for all urban development-type projects would help enhance the valuation of economic and financial benefits.

Project Number: 45023-002
Project Name: Hubei-Yichang Sustainable Urban Transport Project
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A systematic benefit analysis appropriately captures and values the diverse benefits from the project investment. Identification, quantification, and valuation of economic and financial benefits are a complex process for urban development projects, and EIRRs and FIRRs are crucially dependent on sound measurement of these benefits.

Project Number: 45023-002
Project Name: Hubei-Yichang Sustainable Urban Transport Project
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Focusing the development efforts on the very poorest and most backward regions will often result in a more expensive investment with lower economic gains and impact. Investment funds spent on the project could have had a much broader and wider impact if invested in a region with greater development potential. There are regions that are better off with development funding through social assistance and/or transfer payments to ease the poverty situation than investment projects. The latter would be a less technically and economically practical option.

Project Number: 42016-013
Project Name: Qinghai Rural Water Resources Management Project
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More careful assessment of the targeted area’s topography for gravity irrigation project enhances project performance, including agricultural productivity. For instance, determining the suitability of land area and its compatibility with irrigation development through the examination of the supply and quality of water resources, agro-climatic conditions, carrying capacity, and cropping intensity, including the agricultural practices and beneficiaries’ culture in place, supports a productive and sustainable management of irrigation and drainage system.

Project Number: 42016-013
Project Name: Qinghai Rural Water Resources Management Project
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Extensive consultations are critical for identifying and addressing unforeseeable issues emerging from project implementation. By being responsive and flexible, potential duplication of project works can be avoided, and synergy between ADB and other development partners with shared interestscan be created to harmonize the support and maximize the benefits for the target borrower. As in this case, the project adjusted its scope of RAMS development because of the World Bank project approved in March 2015.

Project Number: 45030-002
Project Name: Yunnan Sustainable Road Maintenance (Sector) Project
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It is important to perform an adequate due diligence at appraisal to develop a realistic project schedule that duly considers the borrower's institutional setup and internal review and approval procedures, and the executing agency's existing capacity and prior experience in implementing ADB projects. Identifying and implementing risk mitigation measures and providing early implementation support are crucial in minimizing initial delays and facilitating timely implementation progress.

Project Number: 45030-002
Project Name: Yunnan Sustainable Road Maintenance (Sector) Project
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Given the long-term nature of support to sector plans, continuous update of inventory of interventions and partnerships, along with their achievements, issues, lessons, and recommendations, can benefit future interventions in the sector. For sector loan projects where past, related interventions and investments were provided, building on progress achieved from them and duly taking account of relevant recommendations can optimize project design and fast-track project implementation toward efficient fund utilization and satisfactory delivery of project outputs.

Project Number: 45030-002
Project Name: Yunnan Sustainable Road Maintenance (Sector) 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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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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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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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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A systematic and careful problem diagnosis at the project level strengthens the choice of appropriate operational option (i.e., an investment or a policy, or a combination of both) in meeting the development constraint. During a midterm review when project restructuring is required due to changes in scope, this permits necessary adjustments to project components while helping to ensure that a project remains relevant and its expected outcomes achievable.

Project Number: 43024-013
Project Name: Xinjiang Altay Urban Infrastructure and Environment Improvement Project
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