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Lesson
No new lessons.

Project Number: 31352-013
Project Name: Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Small Towns Development Sector Project
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Lesson
No new lessons.

Project Number: 31345-013
Project Name: Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Second Education Quality Improvement Project
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Lesson
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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Lesson
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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Lesson
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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Support to HIV/AIDs should have been considered relative to other health issues in the Pacific. At the time of project design it would have been interesting to know what the main causes of death in the Pacific were, and where AIDS stood in relation to these.

Project Number: 38599-022
Project Name: HIV/AIDS Prevention and Capacity Development in the Pacific
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Lesson
Given that multiple streams of funding for HIV/AIDS were already available, it may have been more efficient for ADB to work in partnership with another donor who had more experience and technical expertise in HIV/AIDS.

Project Number: 38599-022
Project Name: HIV/AIDS Prevention and Capacity Development in the Pacific
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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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Acquisition of land early on and advance actions on contracts were appropriate in avoiding unnecessary delays and in facilitating project implementation.

Project Number: 35466-013
Project Name: Dhaka Clean Fuel Project
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Lesson
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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Lesson
In the context of Sri Lanka where the areas of reform are complex, the use of a sequenced approach to reforms would have been more appropriate.

Project Number: 34320-013
Project Name: Rural Finance Sector Development Program
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Lesson
Adequate assessment of institutional capacity of implementing agencies at formulation would have been needed to effectively address constraints.

Project Number: 34320-013
Project Name: Rural Finance Sector Development Program
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Government commitment and buy-in is important in a reform program such as Rural Finance Sector Development Program. There should have been strong commitment of the government and stakeholders to develop the sector and achieve sustainable rural finance.

Project Number: 34320-013
Project Name: Rural Finance Sector Development Program
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This relates to the baseline data that was missing in the project. The lack of basic data as the benchmark for evaluation has caused difficulties in assessing the project’s achievements; hence, the evaluation was mainly based on qualitative data.

Project Number: 40049-013, 40049-012
Project Name: Rural Basic Education Project
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