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The rapid urbanization and transformation of cities in the PRC means that resettlement safeguards are a critical element of urban projects throughout project preparation and implementation. This is particularly complex in the eastern coastal cities, such as Fuzhou, that experienced unplanned housing development.

Project Number: 35340-013
Project Name: Fuzhou Environmental Improvement Project
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Public announcement of the resettlement cutoff date and its notification to affected villagers should be supported by robust evidence of the established cutoff date such as unambiguous aerial photographs. Local authorities should also try to prevent people from building illegal structures and should rigorously enforce the cutoff date.

Project Number: 35340-013
Project Name: Fuzhou Environmental Improvement Project
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A careful institutional assessment and well-targeted capacity development program would help strengthen institutional capacity and promote sustainable management of urban services. There were discrepancies between the actual institutional arrangements and those stipulated in the loan and project agreements concerning responsibilities for investment and operations and maintenance in wastewater services and inland creek rehabilitation. These discrepancies made some of the loan covenants inoperable and caused the project's capacity building program to be mistargeted.

Project Number: 35340-013
Project Name: Fuzhou Environmental Improvement Project
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Alternative design options to avoid or minimize house demolition and resettlement should be explored thoroughly during detailed design and project implementation, particularly if the project is located in a rapidly urbanizing area. In the Fuzhou project, design options were largely limited by technical parameters such as flood discharge flows and gradients.

Project Number: 35340-013
Project Name: Fuzhou Environmental Improvement Project
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Urban development projects are inherently complex, involving various sectors and agencies, numerous infrastructure works, and significant safeguard impacts; thus they require tight coordination among all stakeholders. Considering the sector and institutional complexities, sufficient time should be allowed to scope, design, and implement urban projects. While the project management setup and implementation arrangements were generally relevant and effective, the interagency coordination necessary for the project was at times inadequate.

Project Number: 35340-013
Project Name: Fuzhou Environmental Improvement Project
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Projects that are intermingled with domestically financed development projects should be avoided. Many cities have elaborate local land acquisition and resettlement regulations that often make it difficult for ADB projects to implement land acquisition and resettlement independently from the other development projects. In the case of Fuzhou, the ADB-financed project and the domestically financed projects affected the same villages, and this caused some confusion and dissatisfaction in the affected villages.

Project Number: 35340-013
Project Name: Fuzhou Environmental Improvement Project
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Affected persons should not be displaced before they have signed compensation agreements. This was strictly applied in Fuzhou and is now a national regulation.

Project Number: 35340-013
Project Name: Fuzhou Environmental Improvement Project
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The government's land acquisition plan should be prepared well before project approval so that all preparatory administrative procedures are completed ahead of physical implementation of projects.

Project Number: 35340-013
Project Name: Fuzhou Environmental Improvement Project
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Sufficient budget and institutional coordination should be available to minimize the transition period between the completion of resettlement housing and demolition of structures, and relocation of affected persons to their new residences.

Project Number: 35340-013
Project Name: Fuzhou Environmental Improvement Project
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To protect and restore wetlands, strong political support, including funding for nature reserves, is important. To disseminate lessons learned more widely and to help high-level decision making, executing agencies must publish policy briefs.

Project Number: 35289-013
Project Name: Sanjiang Plain Wetlands Protection Project
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Monitoring methods and frequencies need to be defined and agreed upon by the government and ADB at the beginning of a project, and followed during implementation by the executing or implementing agencies, to ensure the reliability and replicability of the monitoring data and the effectiveness of the project completion evaluation.

Project Number: 35289-013
Project Name: Sanjiang Plain Wetlands Protection Project
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Performance targets and indicators for impact, outcome, and outputs should be realistic and measurable through local efforts, particularly when a target or an indicator has a global perspective. Baseline indicators and targets for project performance, including environmental management, should be developed during project preparation.

Project Number: 35289-013
Project Name: Sanjiang Plain Wetlands Protection Project
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The consulting services for project implementation designed during project preparation did not meet the needs during implementation. This usually happens because needs change over time. To avoid having to undertake contract variations to correct this balance, an approach used in European Union contracts would have allowed greater flexibility; bidders for consulting services are typically evaluated on a small number of long-term key experts; while short-term expertise is not defined in the bidding but decided upon during implementation based on agreed work plans and government demands.

Project Number: 35289-013
Project Name: Sanjiang Plain Wetlands Protection Project
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The steering committee established under the project effectively acted as an inter-agency working committee, with authorization from and representation across various sectors such as land, water, fisheries, and agriculture to coordinate wetland protection efforts. To ensure coordination on inter-sector activities in future projects, such a committee or similar agency should be established before project start-up.

Project Number: 35289-013
Project Name: Sanjiang Plain Wetlands Protection Project
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The most successful elements of the project were those that had been discussed with the relevant authorities at an early stage so that plans developed under the project could feed into government plans. This provided a lasting and replicable impact from the project. Examples are the work with the water authorities on water allocation for the nature reserves, and the work with the tourism authorities on ecotourism development.

Project Number: 35289-013
Project Name: Sanjiang Plain Wetlands Protection Project
Report Date: