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Although challenging, meeting the social safeguards requirements of complex sector projects with scattered subprojects is possible with the right elements.

Project Number: 38594-013
Project Name: Guiyang Integrated Water Resources Management (Sector) Project
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It might be advisable not to use ADB loan proceeds for the payment of retention money, as it requires an unconditional bank guarantee that is difficult for small contractors and suppliers to meet

Project Number: 38594-013
Project Name: Guiyang Integrated Water Resources Management (Sector) Project
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The necessity of water users’ associations (WUAs) needs to be carefully considered at project preparation.

Project Number: 38594-013
Project Name: Guiyang Integrated Water Resources Management (Sector) Project
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Well-defined indicators and baseline information and continuous monitoring are vital to reliably assessing the changes that are directly attributable to a project.

Project Number: 43049-013
Project Name: Comprehensive Agricultural Development Project
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Complementing integrated agricultural development projects with institutional development, technical support, and training, is crucial for sustainability.

Project Number: 43049-013
Project Name: Comprehensive Agricultural Development Project
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Adopting a consistent model and streamlining procurement and reporting processes facilitates the successful implementation of projects across a large and scattered geographic area.

Project Number: 43049-013
Project Name: Comprehensive Agricultural Development Project
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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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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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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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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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Appropriate formulation of DMF facilitates accurate measurement of project performance and achievements. A clear alignment of data and logical framework on performance targets and indicators conforming to each subproject provides a correct measurement on project’s intended results and overall impact. All impact indicators were focused on Anning, but available data were for either Gansu province or Lanzhou, making it difficult to measure these indicators as required.

Project Number: 40625-013
Project Name: Lanzhou Sustainable Urban Transport Project
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The retention of implementing agency and staff until project completion enables timely and smooth implementation of project through continuous staff expertise support and institutional knowledge. If a change of implementing agency is necessary, transition needs to be during a non-critical project implementation period. In this project, the change in implementing agency happened during the critical period when land acquisition, resettlement negotiations, and relocations of underground oil pipeline.

Project Number: 40625-013
Project Name: Lanzhou 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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