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Lesson
The project was well designed. It adopted an effective implementation arrangement under which communities, facilitated by district-level public works services and assisted by village organizers, select and design the priority infrastructures. This promoted strong ownership among the participating communities and developed their capacities for planning and development.

Project Number: 39597-013
Project Name: Rural Infrastructure Support 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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The lessons drawn by the PCR are valuable to ADB. ADB needs to seriously consider the socioeconomic and political environments in designing projects. Implementing a project in an unstable environment is not likely to yield positive outcomes. Proper timing is important in introducing a project especially when it entails a paradigm shift (i.e., from supply-led to demand driven). The experience with this project highlighted the need for greater coordination with other donors in addressing the country’s strategic development needs.

Project Number: 32541-013
Project Name: Fiji: Alternative Livelihoods Development Project
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No additional lessons

Project Number: 32467-013
Project Name: Chittagong Hill Tracts Rural Development Project
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No additional lessons

Project Number: 32058-033
Project Name: Punjab Road Development Sector Project
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No additional lessons

Project Number: 31304-012, 31304-013
Project Name: Rural Infrastructure Improvement 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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No additional lessons

Project Number: 29586-013
Project Name: North-West Frontier Province Barani Area Development Project (Phase 2)
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Lesson
An additional lesson identified by this validation relates to regional projects: all parties should agree on uniform standards covering, in this case, vehicular movements across international boundaries. Both Thailand and the PRC have higher legal axle load limits than the Lao PDR. This creates enforcement issues on permissible axle load limits and should have been resolved early on in project preparation.

Project Number: 34231-013
Project Name: Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Greater Mekong Subregion: Northern Economic Corridor Project
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Lesson
Institutionalize - fast-tracking - and flexibility. The technical assistance (TA) attached to the project allowed flexible responses to diverse capacity gaps, and fast-tracked procurement and disbursement, and the implementation of the safeguards policy. The flexibilities allowed under the emergency policy reduced procurement time and enabled efficient mobilization of resources.

Project Number: 39631-013
Project Name: Earthquake Emergency Assistance Project
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Enhance transparency for effective oversight. The government-established ERRA Council, headed by the prime minister, consists of independent and reputable individuals from civil society in the affected regions. The council followed the reconstruction process and reviewed and reported regularly to the general public on its progress and outcomes, developing a sense of ownership. Independent oversight, involving representatives of civil society disseminating information to key constituents, promoted transparency and enhanced the credibility of the host government.

Project Number: 39631-013
Project Name: Earthquake Emergency Assistance Project
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Articulate policies, strategy, and standards early. The local populations and nongovernment organizations (NGOs) started reconstruction work well before provincial and federal governments started articulating their responses. Expectations rose, and some facilities, especially in health, were built by bilateral donors to standards that were much higher than the capacity of the line agencies to maintain them. This resulted in inconsistencies, violations of policies and standards developed for reconstruction work, and unsustainable operation of completed facilities.

Project Number: 39631-013
Project Name: Earthquake Emergency Assistance Project
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Lesson
Clarify roles and respect existing mandates. Initial delays in implementation of the project were caused by confusion about the roles of new and existing institutions. Any large- scale reconstruction operation requires clear delineation of the mandates of levels of government, to provide the structure and clarity required for all stakeholders to work with maximum efficiency. To the extent possible, the provincial and regional governments and federal agencies should be provided with capacity to perform their mandated roles.

Project Number: 39631-013
Project Name: Earthquake Emergency Assistance Project
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Have a dedicated lead institution. The dedicated federal (Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority or ERRA) and provincial reconstruction authorities led the overall coordination and monitoring, and facilitated procedures, policies, and strategies for reconstruction. This arrangement allowed efficient and transparent reconstruction, and established the government's commitment to and credibility in mobilizing resources.

Project Number: 39631-013
Project Name: Earthquake Emergency Assistance Project
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Implementing ADB's requirement to incorporate strengthened building standards into the design of buildings and structures was not possible. It took the government 3 years to develop the revised standards, by which time most structures had been designed and many constructed.

Project Number: 39144-013
Project Name: Tsunami-Affected Areas Rebuilding Project
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