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Lesson
The need to lay down a firm legal, regulatory, and supervisory foundation prior to embarking on promotion of financing institutions, such as SCCs. In this case, ADB attempted to establish the regulatory structure in parallel to project implementation, which did not work well. The two activities should have been better prepared, and sequenced as separate projects.

Project Number: 28201-013
Project Name: Rural Finance Project [Loan 1848-MON]
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The need to enhance the capacity of ADB staff to quickly assess changing project circumstances and adjust project parameters to ensure greater use of ADB loan funds and better attainment of project objectives. The PCR identified some other important lessons.

Project Number: 28201-013
Project Name: Rural Finance Project [Loan 1848-MON]
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The need for start-up TA to set the stage for effective project implementation as part of the loan covenant, establish the PCUs and/or PIUs, and ensure that a realistic implementation arrangement is put in place, even if it means revising the project implementation design, drafting a management operation manual, assisting in the opening of imprest accounts, training project staff on ADB procurement and disbursement procedures and reporting requirements, and initiating the preparation of procurement and disbursement documents;

Project Number: 30210-013
Project Name: Reproductive Health Project [Loan 1900(SF)-PAK]
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Lesson
The need for more frequent review missions, probably with an appropriate consultant/advisor on board, in the early years of implementation and for as long as project implementation is deemed off track; and

Project Number: 30210-013
Project Name: Reproductive Health Project [Loan 1900(SF)-PAK]
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Lesson
The need to take immediate action to scale down project costs, and/or cancel part of the corresponding loan, when it becomes apparent that the government is unable or unwilling to put up the necessary counterpart funds. While it is important to correctly and objectively assess implementation constraints and implementation capacity, countries with serious development needs and weak institutional capacity should be assisted with building up this capacity as part of project design.

Project Number: 30210-013
Project Name: Reproductive Health Project [Loan 1900(SF)-PAK]
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Lesson
No new lessons

Project Number: 29567-013
Project Name: Road Rehabilitation Project [Loan 1657-UZB]
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Lesson
No new lessons

Project Number: 32024-013
Project Name: Sindh Rural Development Project [Loan 1934-PAK]
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Lesson
Sector development programs can be used to facilitate financial sector development through the complementary and mutually reinforcing use of program, TA and investment loan modalities. However, sustained political commitment is a key prerequisite for success.

Project Number: 36075-013, 36075-023
Project Name: Rural Finance Sector Development Program [Loans 1987-PAK and 1988-PAK]
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Lesson
Need for realistic assessments of governments' continued compliance with tranche conditions. The RFSDP experience also illustrates inherent incentive problems associated with the restructuring and commercialization of state banks.

Project Number: 36075-013, 36075-023
Project Name: Rural Finance Sector Development Program [Loans 1987-PAK and 1988-PAK]
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Lesson
Overly complex and ambitious projects are difficult to implement especially when the executing agency is not familiar with the procedures and institutional practices of ADB.

Project Number: 30208-013
Project Name: Decentralized Elementary Education Project (Sindh)
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Lesson
Even a minor or routine problem—e.g., the currency of the second-generation imprest accounts in the districts—can prove fatal and bring down the entire project if left unresolved over a long time.

Project Number: 30208-013
Project Name: Decentralized Elementary Education Project (Sindh)
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Lesson
The persistence of a minor or routine problem could mask serious underlying issues that the project design left unidentified or unresolved, e.g., ownership of the project objectives or governance issues.

Project Number: 30208-013
Project Name: Decentralized Elementary Education Project (Sindh)
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Lesson
No new lessons

Project Number: 37135-013, 37135-033
Project Name: Balochistan Resource Management Program
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Lesson
The need for ADB to either be more rigorous in enforcing conditions for release of funds, or to have the flexibility to alter release conditions during the course of the program when it becomes obvious that the conditions cannot be genuinely met or are evidently irrelevant to the objectives.

Project Number: 33173-013, 33173-023
Project Name: Agriculture Sector Program II
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Lesson
The design of the BRMP, supported by the TA loan, was meant to promote the use ofavailable fiscal resources for delivering services to the poor. This can happen only if the system that links the financial sector and the delivery of services to the poor exists on the ground, and is functioning properly. The situation in Balochistan clearly did not fulfill these conditions. During Board consideration of the loan, a number of members had raised this issue and cautioned the staff, saying that implementation was going to be key.

Project Number: 37135-023
Project Name: Supporting Public Resource Management Reforms in Balochistan
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