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Lesson
No new lessons

Project Number: 34097-013
Project Name: Shanxi Road Development II Project [Loan 1967-PRC]
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Lesson
No new lessons

Project Number: 32058-023
Project Name: Road Sector Development Program [Loan 1891-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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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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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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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 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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Lesson
The project became effective on 7 January 2004, nearly 1 year after the group company was registered with the HMG’s Commercial and Industrial Bureau on 24 January 2003. Close attention should have been given to revising certain project covenants to ensure that the HMG could continue to follow up on some aspects of water pricing.

Project Number: 33177-013
Project Name: Harbin Water Supply Project [Loan 1995-PRC]
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Lesson
While price setting in a tightly regulated market is often an act of balancing a large number of concerns, it is important to give due consideration to the long-term sustainability of the water utility, including investment in its modernization and expansion. If tariff income falls short of requirements (assuming normative operational efficiencies), government support is required.

Project Number: 33177-013
Project Name: Harbin Water Supply Project [Loan 1995-PRC]
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Lesson
The government recognizes that water resource problems in the PRC are related to various economic, technical, regulatory, and other developmental issues, and that an integrated and comprehensive approach is required to ensure that adequate volumes of water of requisite quality are available on a sustained basis.

Project Number: 33177-013
Project Name: Harbin Water Supply Project [Loan 1995-PRC]
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Lesson
The commitment shown by ADB and the HMG was fundamental to the project’s success. Careful assessment and project design during loan processing, detailed procurement and implementation planning, and timely availability of counterpart funding and decision making ensured smooth implementation and commissioning of the project about 1 year ahead of schedule.

Project Number: 33177-013
Project Name: Harbin Water Supply Project [Loan 1995-PRC]
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Need for adequate advisory services to help prepare required legal and regulatory changes to speed up program implementation. The program also shows the benefits of integrated approaches to microfinance development support that promote capacity development of MFIs in conjunction with necessary reforms in the underlying policy environment.

Project Number: 33040-013, 33040-023
Project Name: Microfinance Systems Development Program [Loan 2000-2001-TAJ]
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Lesson
Technical Assistance Support is Important for Crisis Programs. There was no technical assistance with the program. The absence made it difficult to monitor the outcome of the loan.

Project Number: 43087-013, 43087-023
Project Name: Crisis Recovery Support Program
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Lesson
Program Monitoring to be Improved. The program monitoring system should be improved for similar programs in the future. The government s monitoring system did not capture and produce the required data on indicators performance. In particular, the executing agency collected the information from other government agencies (Ministry of Labor and Social Issues, Ministry of Finance,, government reports on anti-crisis measures progress, and other official statistics) to produce its own project completion report.

Project Number: 43087-013, 43087-023
Project Name: Crisis Recovery Support Program
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Success of a financial crisis response operation is highly contingent on the government s ability to quickly put together its own anti-crisis plan, which could be financed by ADB after exercising due diligence. In the case of Armenia, the government had an anti-crisis action plan and a crisis budget.

Project Number: 43087-013, 43087-023
Project Name: Crisis Recovery Support Program
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