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Senior provincial and district government officials and elders expressed gratitude to ADB for its timing and confidence in the implementation of the project. They hope that this will open the regions for future investments and improve governance in the regions.

Project Number: 37136-013
Project Name: Regional Airports Rehabilitation Project Phase I
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Close coordination of the multiple development partners was important to ensure that works and programs were complementary, with no overlap or gaps in support. The project was able to incorporate separate but complementary programs from bilateral development partners, which helped the overall implementation and impact of the project.

Project Number: 37136-013
Project Name: Regional Airports Rehabilitation Project Phase I
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The main lesson learned through implementation of the project was that working with and supporting existing government structures helps develop the capacity of the executing agency to implement externally funded projects, especially in procurement and contract management. It also ensures better ownership of the various works and continued sustainability. Most other development activities are implemented off-budget in Afghanistan.

Project Number: 37136-013
Project Name: Regional Airports Rehabilitation Project Phase I
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The government needs to institutionalize a safeguard system within the organizational framework of the project, particularly during implementation, for effective monitoring and supervision of and timely compliance with safeguard covenants.

Project Number: 37027-013
Project Name: Subregional Transport Facilitation Project
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There were some difficulties in contract administration between Department of Customs (DOC) and United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Although the contract for automatic system of customs data (ASYCUDA) was signed between Department of Roads (DOR) and UNCTAD, DOC was the main agency to supervise UNCTAD's work. DOC felt that it was less effective in the UNCTAD contract implementation because it was not a party to the contract. Contract provisions should have clearly stated the role, responsibilities, and implementation arrangements of DOC.

Project Number: 37027-013
Project Name: Subregional Transport Facilitation Project
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The government needs to review and include interim milestone dates in the contract documents to ensure timely work completion and avoid extensions.

Project Number: 37027-013
Project Name: Subregional Transport Facilitation Project
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The absence of international joint venture partners in the implementation of international competitive bidding (ICB) contracts awarded to them was observed during project implementation. To ensure involvement of all joint venture partners in contract administration, it would be necessary for each individual joint venture partner to issue a guarantee against the collateral for their individual and joint liability. Issuance of individual and joint liability along with a performance bond would ensure liability for the work among all joint venture partners.

Project Number: 37027-013
Project Name: Subregional Transport Facilitation Project
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Uninterrupted power supply and assured raw water availability are critical to ensure the sustainability of investments. Such infrastructure constraints that are outside the control of a particular project may reduce the project's benefits as well as accelerate the depreciation of the assets created.

Project Number: 35496-013
Project Name: Western Uzbekistan Rural Water Supply Project
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The midterm review should thoroughly review the project, including knowledge of ground realities, costs, and implementation progress, and come up with a revised project scope, if warranted, keeping in view the budgetary provisions, and a realistic implementation schedule.

Project Number: 35496-013
Project Name: Western Uzbekistan Rural Water Supply Project
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Market-level compensation is necessary to attract and retain competent staff at the PMU and PIUs.

Project Number: 35496-013
Project Name: Western Uzbekistan Rural Water Supply Project
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Consultants should be fielded early in the project implementation period.

Project Number: 35496-013
Project Name: Western Uzbekistan Rural Water Supply Project
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Initial implementation delays need to be reduced. To this end, more work should be completed during project preparation including (a) the preparation of a request for proposal for consulting services, (b) the approval of advance action for the procurement of consulting services and construction contracts, (c) the preparation of feasibility studies and their approval by the government, and (d) the preparation of tender documents for the first contract package.

Project Number: 35496-013
Project Name: Western Uzbekistan Rural Water Supply Project
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Schedule for implementation and financing. The WMG should have increased the wastewater tariff to raise the required funding instead of requiring the WUDDC to borrow more from domestic banks. The WUDDC�s audited financial reports indicate that its short-term indebtedness is much higher than the typical for such an enterprise. The more timely reallocation of unused loan proceeds could have achieved full utilization of the loan proceeds including savings on interest during construction.

Project Number: 34472-013
Project Name: Wuhan Wastewater Management
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Land acquisition and resettlement. Because of land use changes in updated urban development programs, the Luobuzui WWTP was relocated after the issuance of the land-use permit. Resettlement impacts were consequently different from those anticipated in the resettlement plans, and identification of a new WWTP site caused implementation delays and difficulties. The change mandated the adaptation of the associated wastewater collection system, which made resettlement more difficult.

Project Number: 34472-013
Project Name: Wuhan Wastewater Management
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The required tariff was accurately estimated at appraisal and was made a loan covenant to assure the Wuhan Urban Drainage Development Company's (WUDDC) financial autonomy. During project implementation, the tariff was adjusted but was still insufficient to achieve the goal set for the WUDDC. The delay in the tariff increase was not only due to lack of support from relevant government agencies, but mainly because of the Wuhan municipal government's (WMG) concerns on social stabilities caused by inflation and overall prices increases in recent years.

Project Number: 34472-013
Project Name: Wuhan Wastewater Management
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