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Lesson
Technical assistance can be better targeted and made more efficient if support needed during implementation at different stages and levels can be identified upfront. A program administration memorandum would have been useful.

Project Number: 36155-013
Project Name: Private Participation in Infrastructure Program
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Complex projects such as this require consistent and close follow-up and coordination among the involved government agencies and departments and offices within ADB. It would be more catalytic and demonstrational if the setting up of policies, systems, and procedures were accompanied by the development of pilot projects especially in local government.

Project Number: 36155-013
Project Name: Private Participation in Infrastructure Program
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Undertaking policy reform requires a champion within the government system. Without adequate political backing, reforms are likely to flounder as the delay in implementation of the program and its subsequent turnaround exemplified.

Project Number: 36155-013
Project Name: Private Participation in Infrastructure Program
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A thorough funds disbursement analysis should have been conducted during project implementation to determinesufficiency or insufficiency of funds from all sources to finance all project components. While the actual cost for theproject civil works sections increased by 50%, the project still ended with unutilized loan proceeds of $9.65 million (Loan 2205) and $1.40 million (Loan 2206 [Special Funds]). These were more than sufficient to continue implementing the local roads component estimated to cost $3.8 million, of which $3.0 million was to be funded from the loan.

Project Number: 35457-013
Project Name: East–West Highway Improvement Project
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No new lessons.

Project Number: 35304-032, 35304-046
Project Name: Private Sector and Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Development Program Cluster (Subprograms 1 and 2)
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The project should be realistic about the capacity of counterparts to handle intensive procurement, according to ADB rules. In this case, procurement picked up significantly after a full-time procurement specialist was hired to support the project management office.

Project Number: 35261-013
Project Name: Sustainable Capacity Building for Decentralization Project
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Appetite for outputs should be tested before a project goes for approval. In this case, there was minimal appetite for the revolving fund set up with cofinancing from the Government of the Netherlands, and for capacity-building service provider accreditation.

Project Number: 35261-013
Project Name: Sustainable Capacity Building for Decentralization Project
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It is important for ADB to monitor the engagement of key project players to ensure their ownership of a project and support for its purpose and actions. The successful implementation of the shelter finance component in this case might have had a better chance with greater ADB attention to the participation of shareholder institutions.

Project Number: 35143-013
Project Name: Neighborhood Upgrading and Shelter Sector Project
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Accurate estimates and monitoring of cost and technical parameters and reporting of them are essential for good project design, not least for calibrating the correct scale of complementary components. Work on shelter for the poor in Indonesia in this case, should take advantage of the country’s long and extensive experience in this sector.

Project Number: 35143-013
Project Name: Neighborhood Upgrading and Shelter Sector Project
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No new lessons.

Project Number: 35087-013
Project Name: Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Project
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No new lessons.

Project Number: 34331-013
Project Name: Sustainable Livelihoods in Barani Areas Project
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Any conduit institution for a credit facility needs to undergo a thorough due diligence in terms of its lending policies and procedures, and that key players (i.e., NDB and NDTF) must be required to participate in stakeholder consultations so that a credit facility can be designed realistically based on market demand and actual experiences of lending agencies.

Project Number: 34318-013
Project Name: Aquatic Resource Development and Quality Improvement Project
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No new lessons.

Project Number: 34276-013
Project Name: Information Technology Development Project
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No new lessons.

Project Number: 34263-013
Project Name: Madhya Pradesh State Roads Sector Development Program
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No new lessons.

Project Number: 34188-013
Project Name: Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Northern Community-Managed Irrigation Sector Project
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