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Project Number: 35304-032, 35304-046
Project Name: Private Sector and Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Development Program Cluster (Subprograms 1 and 2)
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Any conduit institution for a credit facility needs to undergo a thorough due diligence in terms of its lending policies and procedures, and that key players (i.e., NDB and NDTF) must be required to participate in stakeholder consultations so that a credit facility can be designed realistically based on market demand and actual experiences of lending agencies.

Project Number: 34318-013
Project Name: Aquatic Resource Development and Quality Improvement Project
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Project Number: 34276-013
Project Name: Information Technology Development Project
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It is noted that the project analysis tended to focus on supply-side interventions with inadequate attention to thedemand side. The assumptions and risks identified in project design mention the assumption that external degree students will recognize the quality and convenience of Distance Education Partnership Program (DEPP) distance learning, but all other assumptions and risks focus on supply-side issues. In a market intervention of this kind, both supply and demand need equal attention.

Project Number: 33251-013
Project Name: Distance Education Modernization Project
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More modern ways by which program management consultants and engineering supervision consultants to monitor and encourage contractor performance on the environmental dimensions of their work is helpful. Reference could be made, for example, to an excellent system of environmental quality monitoring of contractors, linked with small (but rising) withholdings from their monthly invoice payments until shortfalls are corrected. Consultants developed and applied the system for the Ministry of Public Works of Jordan some 4 years ago, which now has a record of proven success.

Project Number: 30240-013
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion: Cambodia Road Improvement Project
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Project-specific benefit monitoring data need to be available to ensure project effectiveness through the evaluation of project performance. Total reliance on secondary data is not adequate.

Project Number: 23213-013
Project Name: Southern Punjab Basic Urban Services Project
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Project monitoring should be close enough to identify if key project design assumptions are being put at risk (such as when the LGRDD, through the PCO, became the executing agency of the project), and if consequent shifts in project direction are likely (such as when PCO management was taken over by staff members deputed from the Housing, Urban Development and Public Health Engineering Department and focus was shifted toward infrastructure investments), and to avoid the shift in direction unless all parties agree to it.

Project Number: 23213-013
Project Name: Southern Punjab Basic Urban Services Project
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Although one of the key features of project design was that urban projects need an integrated approach and infrastructure alone cannot result in improved services, unless capacities, resources, and systems are in place to sustainably deliver these services—the project design failed to ensure that all project stakeholders shared this view and were committed to it. Stakeholder analysis and ways to ensure the commitment of stakeholders to project design initiatives is thus recommended.

Project Number: 23213-013
Project Name: Southern Punjab Basic Urban Services Project
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Development projects can influence local people in work principles and have a significant benefit on local communities at little cost. Before the project, few people left their communities in search of jobs. Now most young people do, and over 30% of migrants are female.

Project Number: 39652-023
Project Name: Gansu Heihe Rural Hydropower Development Investment Program– Erlongshan Hydropower Project
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Project Number: 36357-013
Project Name: Financial Markets Program for Private Sector Development
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Governments and ADB should conduct a more detailed review of the studies to confirm soundness of assumptions and results. The pre-feasibility study that prepared the project design and appraised the viability of the subprojects had quality issues, given that two airport projects in Cambodia were cancelled due to poor market viability, the airport project in the Lao PDR had to be redesigned due to the need to expand scope, the site for the wastewater treatment plant in Siem Reap was not firmed up and substantial time was wasted looking for an alternative site, and others.

Project Number: 35282-013, 33434-013, 35345-013
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion: Mekong Tourism Development Project
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Cautionary note on the effectiveness and efficiency of project designs that attempt to combine program loans to promote PPP environment and capital markets development with project finance facilities to invest in specific projects, particularly when they involve wholesale loans to financial institution intermediaries.

Project Number: 34262-013
Project Name: Private Sector Infrastructure Facility at State Level Project
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No new lessons.

Project Number: 31296-013
Project Name: West Zone Power System Development Project
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The conduct of a project preparatory technical assistance (PPTA) should be a necessary condition before undertaking a lending operation for technical education and vocational training. A PPTA could have helped to understand the institutional context, including possible political–economic factors that were in play.

Project Number: 36654-013
Project Name: Restructuring of the Technical Education and Vocational Training System Project (Balochistan)
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Project Number: 34234-013
Project Name: Rural Area Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project
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