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Issues regarding legal and/or technical aspects of operation and maintenance (O&M) planning and funding, measures for cost recovery, tariff collection, and the metering system should be properly studied by consultants to mitigate the risk associated with inadequate O&M of project water supply system facilities.

Project Number: 43171-013
Project Name: Municipal Services Development Project - Phase 2
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On-the-job training activities alone are less effective than actual training courses in terms of capacity development. The capacity of the municipal governments remains weak; all lack a filing and database system to store their asset inventories, which will be essential for planning, improvement and operation and maintenance of municipal infrastructure and services.

Project Number: 43171-013
Project Name: Municipal Services Development Project - Phase 2
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Considering there were some shortfalls in the road subproject detailed design work (such as drainage and ditch cover, sidewalk, and traffic safety provision), Municipal Development Fund (MDF) technical staff, local consultants and contractors need training on technology and workmanship in order to reach international standards. MDF and ADB need to ensure timely recruitment of construction supervision.

Project Number: 43171-013
Project Name: Municipal Services Development Project - Phase 2
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Proactive consultation with municipal governments by the Municipal Development Fund to ensure prompt selection of subprojects created a momentum that was maintained during project implementation and contributed to completion of physical works ahead of schedule.

Project Number: 43171-013
Project Name: Municipal Services Development Project - Phase 2
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The calculation of the economic and financial internal rates of return at appraisal should be made in a manner that facilitates their re-evaluation at project completion.

Project Number: 34355-013
Project Name: Central Region Urban Environmental Improvement Project
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The project provided sufficient resources to implement gender-focused design features. The provision of adequate resources is critical to both successful design and effective implementation of the gender action plan. The project was an excellent example of how attention to gender equality through a comprehensive and well-targeted gender action plan can lead to practical and strategic gender equality results.

Project Number: 34355-013
Project Name: Central Region Urban Environmental Improvement Project
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Sanitation coverage indicators should be simplified by using nominal targets rather than ratios. Monitoring of coverage ratios requires that two independent parameters - physical outputs and population growth - be known. This is complicated by the continuing growth of the service areas under the control of the concerned utilities.

Project Number: 34355-013
Project Name: Central Region Urban Environmental Improvement Project
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The loan covenants required compliance with most financial covenants within a certain number of months from the loan effectiveness date. It would be better to link the achievement of such covenants to the delivery date of project assets instead of the loan effectiveness date.

Project Number: 34355-013
Project Name: Central Region Urban Environmental Improvement Project
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The recruitment of consultants by executing agencies remains time-consuming. This problem is not specific to the project, but common in all ADB-financed projects in Viet Nam. Delays in consultant recruitment result in delays of the entire associated project. In the future, advance actions and project readiness filters should be applied to minimize start-up delays.

Project Number: 34355-013
Project Name: Central Region Urban Environmental Improvement Project
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The technical assistance (TA) attached to the program proved to be crucial to achieving the policy reforms. The TA inputs ensured the technical quality and overall sustainability of the policy measures and contributed significantly to the success of the program. The experience points to the need to back up program loans with strong technical assistance.

Project Number: 43096-013
Project Name: Social Sectors Support Program
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Lesson
Even in the context of a crisis situation, the 20 months allowed at appraisal for the Social Sectors Support Program's (SSSP) implementation was inadequate, particularly for achieving the technically and politically challenging goals of social welfare targeting and consolidation. A reform process in this area tends to be protracted and highly contentious - a fact that was established by the Social Security Sector Development Program (2002-2009) and reconfirmed by the SSSP.

Project Number: 43096-013
Project Name: Social Sectors Support Program
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Lesson
By underpinning some of the most important policy issues in the social sector, the Social Sectors Support Program (SSSP) maintained ADB's position at the center of social sector policy reform in Mongolia. Further modernization of the social protection system, including wider and better use of targeting, will require continuous external technical and capacity development support to strengthen institutions and human resources.

Project Number: 43096-013
Project Name: Social Sectors Support Program
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There is a need for sustained engagement in social protection. The enduring relevance of the Social Sectors Support Program, which has continued after the financial crisis, underlines the importance of the key objective of ADB's Social Protection Strategy to build social protection systems in non-crisis years and its emphasis that such a system should not be based on a oneoff response to a crisis. Sustained engagement in policy dialogue in non-crisis years is critical to building demand for social protection beyond the crisis response.

Project Number: 43096-013
Project Name: Social Sectors Support Program
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