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Project Number: 32058-033
Project Name: Punjab Road Development Sector Project
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Project Number: 31381-013
Project Name: Protected Area Management and Wildlife Conservation Project
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Project Number: 31304-012, 31304-013
Project Name: Rural Infrastructure Improvement Project
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Changing the scope of a project during implementation as excessively as in this case cannot be considered as a good practice, even when in response to a flood.

Project Number: 31282-013
Project Name: Southern Province Rural Economic Advancement Project
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During the feasibility study stage, the estimate of consultant inputs is based on the assessment of existing institutional capacity to carry out certain activities. In this project, about $7.2 million worth of international consultants inputs were not used. The absence of such a significant amount of international expertise could have contributed to the project’s underperformance. The lesson here is that before making a decision to cancel consultant inputs, careful consideration should be taken as to its impact on project performance.

Project Number: 29637-013
Project Name: Employment-Oriented Skills Development Project
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A more effective project management could have avoided, or at least minimized much of the implementation problems related to coordination, conflict resolution, scheduling, and monitoring and reporting. The position of project manager is the bridge between the key policy and decision makers and the people involved in implementing the different activities. Thus, the selection process should ensure that the candidate is able to deal effectively with those at the top and those on the ground.

Project Number: 29637-013
Project Name: Employment-Oriented Skills Development Project
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Project Number: 29629
Project Name: Ulaanbaatar Heat Efficiency Project
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Project Number: 29586-013
Project Name: North-West Frontier Province Barani Area Development Project (Phase 2)
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Project Number: 26459-013, 26459-022
Project Name: West Henan Agriculture Development Project
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It is essential that adequate compensation mechanisms are built into the project design and implemented. If this had been undertaken, it might have preempted the need for a protracted and expensive system for redressing grievances. Rapid compensation is highly desirable. If compensation is delayed, land values may increase and resettlers may no longer consider defined compensation rates to be adequate.

Project Number: 24268
Project Name: Chashma Right Bank Irrigation Project (Stage III)
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Aid agencies need to make the criteria for their support clear to the government counterpart, while understanding why the government is seeking assistance in the first place. In the case of Danida, they held the funding as they wanted TESDA to (i) receive an adequate budget allocation, and (ii) seek reimbursement from Danida after spending their own budgetary resources. However, the government had a budget problem. Danida spent 2 years trying to encourage the budget allocation for TESDA, but that did not happen. Danida eventually canceled their portion after 2 years.

Project Number: 23229-013, 23229-023
Project Name: Technical Education and Skills Development Project and Fund for Technical Education and Skills Development
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There is no doubt that selecting hydro versus thermal power in Nepal provided a least-cost intervention given the country’s topography and relatively high costs of alternative energy such as diesel and oil. At feasibility study time, alternatives to the adopted design were investigated but ultimately rejected and it now appears when factoring in energy production (actual versus planned), down time due to mechanical problems in the turbines, that including considerations of operational costs into decision making process may have changed the design of the plant.

Project Number: XXXXX
Project Name: Kali Gandaki “A” Hydroelectric Project
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ADB should consider promoting complementary rural development initiatives in project-impacted areas with indicators of outcome derived from the impact assessment process. Agencies to be involved in implementing these initiatives should be preferably located at the district or village level. ADB should not rely on the “polluter pays” principle or on compliance mechanisms to implement its safeguards.

Project Number: XXXXX
Project Name: Kali Gandaki “A” Hydroelectric Project
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Consider projects with sufficient storage capacity to better address load shedding, which continues to affect economic growth and living standards. To consider such projects, greater knowledge of technical aspects, including geology, hydrology (including extreme events), and sedimentation, should be developed by financing agencies and/or developers.

Project Number: XXXXX
Project Name: Kali Gandaki “A” Hydroelectric Project
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Specific loan covenant must be included and strictly enforced. This lesson pertains to the whole subject of loan covenants: they should be more strictly enforced. During ADB Board of Directors’ meeting on 18 March 1996, the Board expressed a similar opinion.

Project Number: XXXXX
Project Name: Kali Gandaki “A” Hydroelectric Project
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