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No new lessons

Project Number: 30207-013, 30207-023
Project Name: Power Sector Development Program
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No new lessons

Project Number: 28025-013
Project Name: Dhaka Power System Upgrade Project
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No new lessons

Project Number: 38458-013
Project Name: Infrastructure Development
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No new lessons

Project Number: 36318-013, 36318-023
Project Name: Assam Power Sector Development Program
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Lesson
Where a large capacity-building component precedes project preparation, reviews by ADB should be more frequent. The consultants should also produce verifiable and detailed reports on progress and staff training. This will allow a more timely response to problems by both ADB and the Borrower.

Project Number: 38458-013
Project Name: Infrastructure Development
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When projects cross ministerial boundaries�as was the case with the national and provincial stakeholders in the water resources sector�there must be a clear commitment at the design stage to avoid disputes. Otherwise, such projects should be avoided altogether.

Project Number: 38458-013
Project Name: Infrastructure Development
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While the project-preparation facilities made sense, the TA loan itself was spread too thinly. The funds were dispersed across three sectors, and were handled by numerous agencies managing subprojects in many locations. This made coordination a challenge right from the outset, especially given the absence of an experienced and capable local coordination team. It did not work. In retrospect, the multi-sector design of the TA was wrong, and approval should not be given for similar TA loans in the future. The important lesson learned here is to restrict loans to one sector at a time.

Project Number: 38458-013
Project Name: Infrastructure Development
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ADB should have restructured its technical assistance (TA) loan much earlier, taking into account two events: (i) the approval of new multitranche financing facilities (MFFs) with project-preparation components that duplicated some of the TA's work, and (ii) dramatic changes in the economy that made some subprojects irrelevant and/or unfundable. The review missions reported on consultant services and their performance, and they did propose a major restructuring of the TA over time.

Project Number: 38458-013
Project Name: Infrastructure Development
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The Planning and Development Division's (PDD lack of capacity to assist the implementing agencies delayed the issuance of consultant mandates, thus slowing down work on some priority subprojects. The choice of the PDD as the executing agency was a mistake. The PDD lacked qualified staff,, access, and a track record. The setting up of new units to manage consultancy contracts does not work and should not have been proposed in the first place.

Project Number: 38458-013
Project Name: Infrastructure Development
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Lesson
The financial loan covenants for Electricite du Laos (EDL) should be accompanied by an agreed plan to achieve compliance over a prescribed period.

Project Number: 31341-013
Project Name: Northern Area Rural Power Distribution Project
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In the climate of international commodity volatility, contracts for supply materials and equipment for distribution systems should have provision for changes in aluminum, copper, and steel prices that might occur during the bid evaluation process; and

Project Number: 31341-013
Project Name: Northern Area Rural Power Distribution Project
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Lesson
Consultants should be required to fulfill their obligations under the terms of reference and to ensure adequate reporting on implementation that will anticipate cost savings or overrun situations in time to take appropriate action;

Project Number: 31341-013
Project Name: Northern Area Rural Power Distribution Project
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The design of distribution networks should be improved by giving due attention to ensuring reliability and operational maintenance objectives rather than focusing solely on meeting connection targets;

Project Number: 31341-013
Project Name: Northern Area Rural Power Distribution Project
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Transmission lines that traverse populated rural areas in the Lao PDR should continue to use the shield wire system and/or single-wire-earth-return system to minimize objections by affected persons and enhance the socioeconomic impact of the transmission component;

Project Number: 31341-013
Project Name: Northern Area Rural Power Distribution Project
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Lesson
No new lessons

Project Number: 32513-013
Project Name: Power Rehabilitation Project
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