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Given the importance of the project to women (based on the household survey and focus group discussions during appraisal stage), more attention is needed to identify an appropriate gender mainstreaming category. Without this, the project may lack interventions that could directly improve women's access to and in managing basic urban infrastructure.

Project Number: 40665-013
Project Name: Songhua River Basin Water Pollution Control and Management Project
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While the heating component helped expand the heating service area and reduce the annual coal consumption and sulfur dioxide emissions as targeted, the project formulation team could have carried out more extensive studies to include in the project design innovative measures to gradually phase out coal as the heating source. This is especially important given the ADB’s new energy policy. In the future, ADB will need to take a more cautious approach to decarbonize, as called for by the Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General.

Project Number: 40051-013
Project Name: Gansu Baiyin Urban Development Project
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The project aimed at establishing the landlord status of the SLPA and entrusting the operation to the private sector to improve efficiency. This validation views that this is a right direction and many port projects in the world are taking or try to take the same approach. However, as witnessed by many port projects, it is a challenging approach.

Project Number: 39431-013
Project Name: Colombo Port Expansion Project
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More detailed bottlenecks of the port in the three functions should have been identified at appraisal. It is now difficult to review what functions were improved effectively. Balanced investments in three functions are essential for port business, but it is not clear how theproject achieved the enhancement of capacity and efficiency.

Project Number: 39431-013
Project Name: Colombo Port Expansion Project
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Since project benefits are contingent on the actual extent to which disasters/accidents occur, the EIRR may not be the right tool for decision making. Cost-effectiveness or finding the least-cost option approach would be more appropriate.

Project Number: 39153-023
Project Name: Railway Safety Enhancement Project
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Freight transportation was initially the major benefit envisaged under this project. Since decisions to change railway corridor priorities, e.g., the balance between a high-speed passenger railway versus freight railway services, are usually the basis of a railway services plan, the modification in project design should have been known even at the appraisal stage since the Chongqing–Lichuan Railway (CLR) was to be a section of the Shanghai-Wuhan-Chengdu corridor high-speed passenger railway.

Project Number: 39153-013
Project Name: Chongqing–Lichuan Railway Development Project
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No new lessons

Project Number: 38196-013
Project Name: Northern Power Transmission Expansion Sector Project
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(ii) When gender and development issues are among the output targets, project management should be hiring a competent and experienced gender specialist on a long-term basis.

Project Number: 36224-013
Project Name: Second Rural Infrastructure Improvement Project
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(i) A proper project design includes not only conducting due diligence and risk assessments but also identifying risk mitigation measures;

Project Number: 36224-013
Project Name: Second Rural Infrastructure Improvement Project
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No new lessons

Project Number: 36008-013
Project Name: Lower Secondary Education for the Most Disadvantaged Regions Project
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Project design should be thorough, realistic in cost and time estimation, and in the delivery of target outputs.

Project Number: 35377-013, 35377-023
Project Name: Regional Road Development Project
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Vocational schools were not familiar with the new way of operating that the project supported. They needed support to build their knowledge of and information on local labor market conditions, including skills standards and emerging employment opportunities. Projects which focus on the interface between education and employment need to be underpinned by regular implementation supervision as the conditions on the ground can be different across the country.

Project Number: 33409-013
Project Name: Vocational Education Strengthening Project
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The project needed to provide additional support to those schools that needed it, particularly in more remote areas.

Project Number: 33409-013
Project Name: Vocational Education Strengthening Project
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The project may have benefited from a more decentralized project management structure. The project supported a process of service decentralization while project management itself was centralized.

Project Number: 33409-013
Project Name: Vocational Education Strengthening Project
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Project performance may have been better if outcomes had been closely linked to ADB-supported activities, and if they had reflected gradual improvements in the vocational training system rather than the end of point of improved relevance, efficiency, and effectiveness of the vocational training system.

Project Number: 33409-013
Project Name: Vocational Education Strengthening Project
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