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No new lessons

Project Number: 39118-013
Project Name: Cyclone Emergency Assistance Project [Loan 2174-COO]
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There is a need to address all aspects of a microfinance development program (i.e., rules, regulatory, and supervisory framework; performance standards for MFIs and their close monitoring; business development services for both providers and 5 users of microfinance; a financial literacy program to increase the financial knowledge of both providers and users of microfinance; and attachment of appropriate TA to facilitate program implementation and achievement of outputs and outcomes).

Project Number: 38579-013
Project Name: Microfinance Development Program [Loan 2199-PHI]
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A successful microfinance development program requires continued government commitment and close cooperation and coordination between the various agencies involved

Project Number: 38579-013
Project Name: Microfinance Development Program [Loan 2199-PHI]
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Taking into account issues related to sustainability, it is apparent that the project outcomes can be sustained if the government allocates adequate funds and resources for operation and maintenance based on a rigorous and transparent planning regime.

Project Number: 37680-013
Project Name: Emergency Rehabilitation Project [Loan 2045-KGZ]
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Emergency projects such as this one tend to be difficult to administer and implement and difficult for ADB to properly guide and oversee. This is because speed is of the essence to restore normal activity, and subprojects tend to be spread over large geographical areas. As such, ADB has to depend not only on review mission diligence but also on consultants and the government agencies involved. ADB’s procedures, while fully adequate for non-emergency projects, tend to slow the implementation of emergency projects such as this one, so due diligence is sometimes truncated.

Project Number: 37680-013
Project Name: Emergency Rehabilitation Project [Loan 2045-KGZ]
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To understand that enactment of new laws (financial leasing law in this case) would take time particularly in countries faced with capacity

Project Number: 36383-013
Project Name: Small and Medium Enterprise Development Program [Loan 2129-CAM]
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To provide TA for capacity enhancement and program implementation to make a success of a reform program (2 TAs were provided in conjunction with the Program in this case) is also essential; and constraints is necessary.

Project Number: 36383-013
Project Name: Small and Medium Enterprise Development Program [Loan 2129-CAM]
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It is crucial to the success of a policy-based program to undertake proper pre-appraisal preparatory work to identify correctly the concerns and issues that needed to be addressed under a reform program to facilitate program implementation and accomplish the envisaged outcome and outputs (a pre-assessment was done in this case using an ADB funded TA);

Project Number: 36383-013
Project Name: Small and Medium Enterprise Development Program [Loan 2129-CAM]
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Project Number: 34476-013
Project Name: Gansu Clean Energy Development Project [Loan 2032-PRC]
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Project Number: 34097-013
Project Name: Shanxi Road Development II Project [Loan 1967-PRC]
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Project Number: 32058-023
Project Name: Road Sector Development Program [Loan 1891-PAK]
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To effectively monitor and evaluate the project, the MIS need to be installed and operating early in the project schedule.

Project Number: 31647-013
Project Name: Smallholder Support Services Pilot Project [Loan 1652-PNG]
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Projects that pilot test new approaches need to be designed in a way that they are simple, well focused, and flexible enough to accommodate appropriate changes. In pilot projects, it is essential to have a capacity building component, especially in contexts where weak implementation capacity exists.

Project Number: 31647-013
Project Name: Smallholder Support Services Pilot Project [Loan 1652-PNG]
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The need to be aware, during program design, of present or future laws that could impede reform. In this case, the passage of the Decentralization Law (2001) appears to have delayed the enactment of the investment law and to have led to the cancellation of the final loan tranche.

Project Number: 31644-013
Project Name: Industrial Competitiveness and Small and Medium Enterprise Development Program [Loan 1738-INO]
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One of these pertains to the linking of loan tranche releases with conditions for the passage of new laws. The passage of laws by the Parliament is normally not within the control of ADB or the government. Therefore, the question arises whether such conditions should continue to be imposed by ADB or, if such links are made, whether more time should be allowed for the laws to be passed. In this case, the delay in the passage of the investment law led to the cancellation of the final loan tranche, and thus to diminished efficiency in resource use.

Project Number: 31644-013
Project Name: Industrial Competitiveness and Small and Medium Enterprise Development Program [Loan 1738-INO]
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