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The project design and monitoring framework included components that are not directly related to the project. The implementation arrangements for these components were different from ADB-financed ZPSHPP, and ZPSC did not have any role in implementing these components. This prevented effective monitoring of the implementation of these components by ADB review missions, and confirming their efficacy in achieving the outcomes. Furthermore, the indicators to measure the poverty alleviation impacts were poorly defined as a result these could not be monitored during review missions.

Project Number: 28212-013
Project Name: Hebei Zhanghewan Pumped Storage Project
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No additional lesson.

Project Number: 39652-033
Project Name: Gansu Heihe Rural Hydropower Development Investment Program – Dagushan Hydropower Project
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One of most complex mountainous expressways in the PRC, the project expressway passes through the most difficult and complicated geo-technical terrain. In coping with various technical difficulties and challenges, Sichuan Provincial Transport Department and Sichuan Yaxi Expressway Company Limited initiated 32 technical research and development studies associated with the project's design, construction, and operation. Application of these technical findings has generated significant social and economic benefits.

Project Number: 34174-013
Project Name: Central Sichuan Roads Development Project
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Project Management. Strong government ownership was critical to the successful implementation of the project. Creative and practical implementation arrangements ensured the investment program was soundly managed. Under the multitranche financing facility, a distinctive financial intermediary modality was adopted, and a third party was selected to conduct energy savings measurement and verification for each subproject.

Project Number: 39653-033
Project Name: Guangdong Energy Efficiency and Environment Improvement Investment Program - Tranche 2
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The project was formulated to minimize the potential technical, safety, economic, financial, and resettlement risks. The main technical risks were associated with 25 tunnels (41 km in total length) and 270 bridges (91 km in total length). To mitigate the risks, national and international consultants reviewed the project design and construction methods and incorporated solutions based on advanced technologies and international prevailing practices.

Project Number: 34174-013
Project Name: Central Sichuan Roads Development Project
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Institutional arrangements. The project management office serves a critical coordinating function in executing urban development projects that involve implementing agencies from several sectors. A project management office with strong leadership, experience with ADB procedures, and good communication skills is desirable. The establishment of databases and monitoring mechanisms by each implementing agency early in the project is important.

Project Number: 37596-013
Project Name: Guangxi Nanning Urban Environmental Upgrading Project
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The project cost is within the approved cost estimate, which can be attributed to accurate preliminary and detailed designs. Contingencies envisaged at appraisal sufficiently covered all routine variations. The Sichuan Provincial Transport Department and Sichuan Dashaan Expressway Company Limited started preliminary and detailed designs during the project processing stage, and results of both designs were incorporated in the project design, contract packaging, and preparation of the procurement plan.

Project Number: 37490-013
Project Name: Eastern Sichuan Roads Development Project
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Water reuse. Water reuse was included in the project design, which contributed to water conservation and efficiency. For commercial use of reclaimed water, identification of suitable industrial users is critical. Lingqing and Gaotang municipal wastewater management subprojects identified two existing paper mills close to the wastewater treatment plants as potential users at appraisal, and started providing treated wastewater upon operation of wastewater treatment plants to generate revenues.

Project Number: 36505-013
Project Name: Shandong Hai River Basin Pollution Control Project
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Although the final cost of the project was much higher than the appraisal estimate, the increase was largely due to the unrealistic cost estimate at the feasibility study stage, which is evident even when other factors, such as price increase of construction materials, modification to the original design, and the addition of facilities, are considered. The completion review noted that many cost items in the original estimate were based on outdated cost quotas that were far below market prices.

Project Number: 36433-013
Project Name: Taiyuan-Zhongwei Railway Project
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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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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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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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Addressing adequately the social and environmental impact of hydropower development projects during preparation and making sure the local communities affected by the development participate in the benefits of the investment is an important lesson to ensure longer term project sustainability. To achieve this goal, funding needs to be committed before loan approval to ensure that such issues will be addressed during implementation, and independent monitoring mechanisms put in place to measure the impact on local communities.

Project Number: 34476-014
Project Name: Gansu Clean Energy Development Project
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