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Small investments in areas like micro-finance, SHG formation, low cost sanitation facilities, and skills upgrading training can have large social and economic impacts and help build local support for a project.

Project Number: 30303-013
Project Name: Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environmental Management Project
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House service connections for urban water and sewerage should be part of the project scope to ensure optimum utilization of outputs and timely delivery of benefits.

Project Number: 30303-013
Project Name: Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environmental Management Project
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Adherence to sound engineering design principles based on required primary surveys and validated secondary data can lead to more efficient outcomes and avoid delays. Adequate time needs to be allocated for surveys and engineering design.

Project Number: 30303-013
Project Name: Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environmental Management Project
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The project and contract schedule should be realistic, taking into account the technical complexities of the project components, the capacity of executing agencies, consultants and contractors, and the available working season in project towns.

Project Number: 30303-013
Project Name: Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environmental Management Project
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Advance actions for consultant selection, procurement, land acquisition, and statutory clearances can help in timely completion of projects.

Project Number: 30303-013
Project Name: Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environmental Management Project
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Adequate consultations with all stakeholders during project formulation and appraisal of the project, based on the primary data or validated secondary data, will ensure more locally rooted and systematic planning, help build local ownership, and lead to better project implementation and sustainability of project outputs.

Project Number: 30303-013
Project Name: Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environmental Management Project
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Fully staffed project management unit (PMU) and project implementation units (PIUs) and the complete involvement of the project authorities from project preparation is necessary to create ownership and commitment.

Project Number: 30303-013
Project Name: Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environmental Management Project
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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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The parallel cofinancing of part A with Agence Franc?aise de De?veloppement (AFD) worked well. The underlying reason was AFD acceptance of ADB rules and procedures for equipment procurement, which enabled consistent processing of ADB and AFD procurement packages. The leveraging of ADB's participation greatly assisted completion of the national power sector development program and the arrangements could be used in similar circumstances elsewhere.

Project Number: 32273-013
Project Name: Northern Power Transmission Sector Project
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The delegation of loan administration to the Viet Nam Resident Mission improved ADB's ability to monitor project progress by allowing for more regular and informal meetings with project management staff in order to obtain information firsthand, rather than relying on quarterly reports, which were sometimes late and/or inadequate.

Project Number: 32273-013
Project Name: Northern Power Transmission Sector Project
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The transmission and substation subprojects that had not been appraised prior to loan presentation took longer to process than planned and call into question the justification for the sector loan approach. All but one subproject had been identified during implementation, and problems that could have been tackled prior to approval led to significant delays and increased administrative effort during project implementation.

Project Number: 32273-013
Project Name: Northern Power Transmission Sector Project
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ADB should not approve funding for projects without independent evaluation and diligent review. ADB's appraisal of Component B of the project was inadequate. This oversight eventually delayed loan closing and caused the underutilization of the ADB loan.

Project Number: 32273-013
Project Name: Northern Power Transmission Sector Project
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