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Project Number: 28708
Project Name: South Asia Regional Apex Fund
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The need for ADB to focus more on sectors in which it has substantial experience, from which it can draw from during the relatively fast pace of processing and implementing an emergency project. Also, given limited resources, sector selectivity is important to ensure a significant impact. Moreover, emergency project designs should likewise incorporate provisions for O&M of project facilities to ensure their sustainability.

Project Number: 39099-013
Project Name: Tsunami Emergency Assistance Project
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Special measures need to be taken with respect to timing, cost estimations, and availability of contractors in a difficult conflict environment. Lessons learned from the resettlement component needed to be included.

Project Number: 37136-012, 37136-013
Project Name: Regional Airports Rehabilitation Project (Phase 1)
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Capacity building is needed in enabling institutions to reach the poor with demand driven products and services.

Project Number: 33196-013
Project Name: Small and Microfinance Development Project
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The selection of appropriate institutions is crucial in targeting poor and low-income households. Commercial banks are constrained to reach large numbers of poor households due to inherent rigidities of bank regulations and policies.

Project Number: 33196-013
Project Name: Small and Microfinance Development Project
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The use of credit lines is not adequate in meeting long-term development needs and constraints of the sector.

Project Number: 33196-013
Project Name: Small and Microfinance Development Project
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The definition of microfinance at appraisal in the context of Uzbekistan should have been given upfront to provide overall guidance in the project design.

Project Number: 33196-013
Project Name: Small and Microfinance Development Project
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Poverty intervention projects such as the project need to be clear on the mechanisms for ensuring participation of the poor.

Project Number: 33196-013
Project Name: Small and Microfinance Development Project
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Project Number: 32058-033
Project Name: Punjab Road Development Sector 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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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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Experienced foreign investors in power generation have access to private sector technical insurance that sovereign entities may not otherwise have. This is important when technical problems arise that cause major shutdown of operations, as was the case of AKL due to a 2004 fire. Private sector insurance enables unforeseen technical problems to be fixed along with compensation to the insured for revenue loss due to the incident. Foreign investors can leverage important insurance that is often difficult for sovereign entities to acquire.

Project Number: 34912-014
Project Name: AES Kelanitissa Power Project in Sri Lanka
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