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Both support facilities were critical to the crisis response of Bangladesh as no other development partners provided any crisis-related assistance or program support during the program period. However, the pricing (interest spread of 200 basis points above the London Interbank Offered Rate or LIBOR) and maturity (5 years) of the CSF loan makes it is less suitable for a poorer country like Bangladesh.

Project Number: 43157-013
Project Name: Public Expenditure Support Facility Program and Countercyclical Support Facility Support Program
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ADB's proactive participation in implementation, supervision, and monitoring, and its flexibility in addressing actual conditions in the project area and providing essential support to the federally administered tribal areas (FATA) Secretariat in a timely manner was also a central factor for the success of the project.

Project Number: 33268-013
Project Name: Federally Administered Tribal Areas Rural Development Project
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The active support of the borrower and the executing agency, through timely provision of counterpart funds, steering committee meetings convened for timely decisions and approvals, and consistent monitoring and supervision, helped ensure smooth and timely implementation.

Project Number: 33268-013
Project Name: Federally Administered Tribal Areas Rural Development Project
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Appointing qualified staff and retaining them for the duration of the project avoided delays in implementation.

Project Number: 33268-013
Project Name: Federally Administered Tribal Areas Rural Development Project
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The project was a success primarily because of its design, which accounted for actual conditions in the project area, applied lessons from previous interventions, and incorporated and adopted efficient and sustainable delivery mechanisms. The involvement of beneficiaries in the project through effective social mobilization was critical to its success. Training, awareness raising, and capacity building of beneficiaries was also instrumental in ensuring that the subprojects were owned and operated by the communities and were sustainable.

Project Number: 33268-013
Project Name: Federally Administered Tribal Areas Rural Development Project
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No additional lessons

Project Number: 31287-013
Project Name: Coastal Resource Management Project
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As experienced in all past ADB-financed emergency assistance projects in Bangladesh, delegation of authority to the ADB resident mission in the borrower's country is essential for effective monitoring and immediate decision-making. [Main text, paras. 16, 29, 30, 56]

Project Number: 42166-013
Project Name: Emergency Assistance for Food Security Project
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For short-duration and emergency assistance projects, ADB should maintain better coordination with the executing agency throughout the whole project period and afterward to assess the project's impact in the next few years. [Main text, para. 55]

Project Number: 42166-013
Project Name: Emergency Assistance for Food Security Project
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Experience from the project demonstrates that prompt loan processing and disbursement is crucial to success of such budgetary support provided during a crisis situation. [Main text, paras. 10, 11, 54]

Project Number: 42166-013
Project Name: Emergency Assistance for Food Security Project
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Safety net programs are proven effective for mitigating critical food crises at times of price increases and natural disasters. Implementation of safety net programs requires experienced and committed human resources for food management, transparent identification of beneficiaries, and systematic and efficient distribution of food grains among beneficiaries. Finally, close monitoring oversight and evaluation are essential for improving the implementation and impact of safety net programs.

Project Number: 42166-013
Project Name: Emergency Assistance for Food Security Project
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Substantial evidence demonstrates that community-driven development (CDD) approaches are more effective than other approaches to basic infrastructure development. Evidence also indicates that CDD is likely to offer better cost recovery and maintenance of completed infrastructure facilities and services because of the strong sense of ownership of the community members. In addition, CDD leads to better accountability. Transparency in decision making and procurement and increased use of audits have demonstrably reduced corruption and leakage of public funds.

Project Number: 40247-013
Project Name: Rural Infrastructure Support to the PNPM Mandiri Project
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Community facilitators must be qualified and committed, and enough time must be set aside for community empowerment activities, to ensure that community members are sufficiently involved in prioritizing their needs, developing investment proposals, and making decisions. [Main text, para. 65(ii)]

Project Number: 40247-013
Project Name: Rural Infrastructure Support to the PNPM Mandiri Project
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Involving the beneficiaries at all stages of planning and implementation of upgrading activities and promoting inclusive community empowerment are critical in ensuring pro-poor investments and sustainability.

Project Number: 40247-013
Project Name: Rural Infrastructure Support to the PNPM Mandiri Project
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Self-supply groundwater wells have not been closed completely as envisaged at appraisal and still exist in Qingfeng and Puyang counties. As a result, the actual operational capacity of three water supply plant (WSP) subprojects is lower than designed. The self-supply groundwater wells also caused difficulties in collecting the wastewater tariff.

Project Number: 34473-013
Project Name: Henan Wastewater Management and Water Supply Sector Project
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At the beginning of project implementation, three local governments tried to adopt build-operate-transfer (BOT) modality and contracted private companies to construct the wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). However, the local governments had inadequate capacity to conduct due diligence, and the contracted companies could not provide adequate counterpart financing. The unsuccessful introduction of BOT modality also showed that the capacity of individual WWTPs was too limited to ensure commercial viability.

Project Number: 34473-013
Project Name: Henan Wastewater Management and Water Supply Sector Project
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