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Project Number: 29586-013
Project Name: North-West Frontier Province Barani Area Development Project (Phase 2)
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The project-commissioned monitoring inadequately reported the actual implementation issues at field level. Third party monitoring on an annual basis would improve project performance. The reporting could be in the form of back-to-office notes that outline issues in need of attention and make recommendations.

Project Number: 37027-013
Project Name: Subregional Transport Facilitation Project
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The government needed to review and include interim milestone dates in the contract documents to ensure timely work completion and avoid extensions. The government also needed to institutionalize a safeguard system within the organizational framework of the project, particularly during implementation, for effective monitoring and supervision of and timely compliance with safeguard covenants.

Project Number: 37027-013
Project Name: Subregional Transport Facilitation Project
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There were some difficulties in contract administration between the DOC and UNCTAD. Although the contract for the ASYCUDA was signed between DOR and UNCTAD, DOC was the main agency to supervise UNCTAD’s work. DOC felt that it was less effective in the UNCTAD contract implementation because it was not a party to the contract. Contract provisions should have clearly stated the role, responsibilities, and implementation arrangements of DOC.

Project Number: 37027-013
Project Name: Subregional Transport Facilitation Project
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The practice of international joint venture partners not actively participating in the implementation of the contracts awarded was observed during project implementation. To ensure involvement of all joint venture partners in contract administration, it would be necessary for each partner to issue a guarantee against the collateral for their individual and joint liability. Issuance of individual and joint liability along with a performance bond would ensure liability for the work among all joint venture partners.

Project Number: 37027-013
Project Name: Subregional Transport Facilitation Project
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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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Project Number: 31341-013
Project Name: Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Northern Area Rural Power Distribution Project
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An additional lesson is that if the executing agency’s limited relevant experience of project design and implementation is known at the outset at the project design stage (i.e., as confirmed in the risk assessment), it is necessary to design appropriate mitigation strategies. These could include the following: (i) design smaller pilot projects to gain experience before larger projects are tackled; or (ii) make significant consultant support available in the early stages of implementation to strengthen capacity and ensure timely implementation.

Project Number: 33548-013
Project Name: Urban Water Supply Project
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Project Number: 33443-013
Project Name: Efficient Utilization of Agricultural Wastes Project
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ADB’s having frequent review missions at the initial stage, active participation in technical discussions, and prompt action on project requests, were critical factors in ensuring that the project remained responsive to recurrent and emerging needs and that implementation was on track with the project timelines.

Project Number: 33036-013
Project Name: Health Sector Reform Project
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Installation of project management at a very high level with the President’s office as executing agency and the deputy prime minister as project coordinator facilitated the success of the project. With such high level management support, the adoption of key policy recommendations and implementation of essential reform packages had a much better chance of being acted upon more quickly than if it were anchored on a weak ministry that still needed reform and strengthening.

Project Number: 33036-013
Project Name: Health Sector Reform Project
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Project Number: 32499-013
Project Name: Development of Poor Urban Communities Sector Project
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Program experience demonstrates that accompanying investment projects in a sector development program loan matter. ADB, in selecting the sector lending modality as a broad-based lending instrument, should give careful consideration to the choice of accompanying projects intrinsically linked with the sector performance in all its dimensions.

Project Number: 32285-013
Project Name: Agriculture Sector Development Program
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Due diligence should be exercised not only in terms of technical factors but institutional, social, financial, and even political factors. While most if not all projects have excellent and even noble intentions and objectives and are extremely relevant to existing problems in the countries they are proposed for, these projects have to be realistic and must be designed considering the inherent problems and issues pertaining to the sector, country, or areas where they will be implemented.

Project Number: 31467-013
Project Name: Provincial Towns Water Supply and Sanitation Project
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Project Number: 29257-013
Project Name: Stung Chinit Irrigation and Rural Infrastructure Project
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