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Having sufficient consultation and participation with stakeholders helps to promote ownership and responsibility. During implementation, a great number of consultation meetings were conducted on the design, construction, safeguards, job opportunities, ethnic minority culture protection, gender, and social mpacts. These included hundreds of participants including representatives of local governments, nongovernment organizations, potential customers, ethnic minority groups, and women's federations at town, county, and city levels.

Project Number: 36432-013
Project Name: Dali-Lijiang Railway Project
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Roadside stations were introduced to promote community development along the local roads covered by the project by linking the roads with local community activities. However, in the current institutional arrangement, the Gansu Provincial Transportation Department (GPTD) does not have enough resources, including staff and funds, to operate the roadside stations. This brings their sustainability into question.

Project Number: 33470-013
Project Name: Gansu Roads Development Project
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If possible, pavement layers should be constructed after one year or more of settlement of earthwork, depending on the type of treatment of collapsible losses.

Project Number: 33469-013
Project Name: Ningxia Roads Development Project
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For projects that encounter collapsible loess, sufficient budget should be allocated to design of foundation treatment and its construction, which is much more economical than to remedy deformation of road when inappropriately treated loess settles at a later stage.

Project Number: 33469-013
Project Name: Ningxia Roads Development Project
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Careful and adequate analysis of properties of collapsible loess at project site is necessary, because different types of collapsible loess behave differently while some treatment methods are more effective than others for certain types of loess.

Project Number: 33469-013
Project Name: Ningxia Roads Development Project
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The holistic approach for rural development was not sufficiently emphasized in the project document. The original project design involved a large number of subprojects across 50 counties. This may have overextended loan resources. Reduced and focused geographic coverage would have eased project management pressure at the provincial level and amplified the effect of this holistic approach.

Project Number: 33439-013
Project Name: Fujian Soil Conservation and Rural Development II Project
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Private enterprises played an important role in advancing the agriculture sector through branding and marketing of farm produce, introducing quality standards and technology, investing to improve farm infrastructure, and providing extension services. Farmers also benefited from advice on agricultural inputs, credit services, and increased farm gate prices.

Project Number: 33439-013
Project Name: Fujian Soil Conservation and Rural Development II Project
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Subproject selection criteria guided the selection, but the Fujian provincial government's active role in subproject selection contributed to the project's success. Most subprojects made significant progress during project implementation despite the global financial crisis in 2008.

Project Number: 33439-013
Project Name: Fujian Soil Conservation and Rural Development II Project
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The importance of strong project sponsors. The project clearly demonstrated the importance of strong and committed project sponsors to help ensure the success of a project. Telenor had the technical competence, managerial skills, and extensive telecommunications experience to run a world-class telecommunications operation in Bangladesh. Grameen Bank, for its part, had the brand recognition and distribution network to help market Grameenphone’s services in both urban and rural areas. Both companies have also observed high ethical standards.

Project Number: 37920-014
Project Name: Grameenphone Telecommunications Project and Grameenphone Telecommunications Expansion Project
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Need for thorough review of legal documents. The flaw in the wording in one of the agreements could have been avoided. ADB needs to thoroughly review all legal documents, particularly those that could cause it financial or reputational harm.

Project Number: 37920-014
Project Name: Grameenphone Telecommunications Project and Grameenphone Telecommunications Expansion Project
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Local government reform is a complex undertaking, involving major changes in the regulatory framework, institutional arrangements, supporting infrastructure, and human capacity. It also requires a long-term perspective in both design and implementation. Thus, the government?s continuous commitment to reform, its ownership of the program, and collaborative support by the donor community are all necessary elements in designing local government reform through a programmatic approach.

Project Number: 39516-013, 39516-023
Project Name: Local Government Financing and Budget Reform Program Cluster
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In Viet Nam legislation is often comprehensive but implementation weak. Implementation required close monitoring on an annual basis and ensured continued relevance to the government's reform progress. While the Poverty Reduction Support Credit operations provided financial support for implementing the whole Socioeconomic Development Plan (SEDP), they disbursed against the upfront completion of a number of specific reform measures identified within the SEDP agenda by consultation between partners and the government, led by the World Bank.

Project Number: 41046-013, 42191-013, 42191-023, 42191-033
Project Name: Support the Implementation of the Poverty Reduction Programs IV and V
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The Poverty Reduction Support Credit (PRSC) series served as an effective framework for policy dialogue and interactions between the government and donors. The PRSC exercise also served as a common forum for donors to raise concerns with the government and provided the donors with broad access to a large number of ministries and agencies. The role of cofinanciers under the PRSC evolved from providers of financing to partners engaged in policy dialogue and the preparation of operations.

Project Number: 41046-013, 42191-013, 42191-023, 42191-033
Project Name: Support the Implementation of the Poverty Reduction Programs IV and V
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The new series of programmatic development policy lending is taking this broad lesson into account, driven by a new Socioeconomic Development Plan report (2011-2015). Though focused on two of the four pillars of the last Poverty Reduction Support Credit series, policy coordination that reflects linkages in policy areas requires a strong analytical foundation to inform directions and specific decisions.

Project Number: 41046-013, 42191-013, 42191-023, 42191-033
Project Name: Support the Implementation of the Poverty Reduction Programs IV and V
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The breadth of the reform undertaking and linkages among policy actions across sectors called for a comprehensive approach to dialogue and support by development partners. Several development partners withdrew or reduced their development assistance to Viet Nam, in accordance with their aid practices for middle-income countries. The number of cofinanciers peaked at 11 for Poverty Reduction Support Credits (PRSCs) 6 and 7 and has fallen since, with some impact on the total level of financing under the PRSCs.

Project Number: 41046-013, 42191-013, 42191-023, 42191-033
Project Name: Support the Implementation of the Poverty Reduction Programs IV and V
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