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Dialoguing to better understand existing regulations and policies is vital to ensuring project compliance with government requirements.

Project Number: 49232-001
Project Name: Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Air Quality Improvement-Hebei Policy Reforms Program
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Policy action recommendations need to be backed by adequate technical and economic due diligence, including feasibility studies.

Project Number: 49232-001
Project Name: Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Air Quality Improvement-Hebei Policy Reforms Program
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A realistic policy framework with manageable policy actions is needed to implement air quality reforms.

Project Number: 49232-001
Project Name: Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Air Quality Improvement-Hebei Policy Reforms Program
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Strong commitment and coordination among development partners make the attainment of policy reforms more feasible.

Project Number: 49232-001
Project Name: Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Air Quality Improvement-Hebei Policy Reforms Program
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Sustained engagement is important in undertaking policy reforms that may take many years to implement.

Project Number: 49232-001
Project Name: Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Air Quality Improvement-Hebei Policy Reforms Program
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Project-level lesson: Assistance provided in response to a crisis should only include essential conditions for disbursement. ADB’s Project Administration Instructions stated that the use of conditions for withdrawal should be limited to the extent possible. In this program, four disparate conditions were included as conditions for disbursement without discussion or justification in the RRP.

Project Number: 49083-001
Project Name: Countercyclical Support
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Target dates for performance indicators should be sufficiently set long after the likely date of disbursement or policy action. This is to identify a plausible causal relationship between investments and actions taken by the program and a change in the performance indicators. This was not the case in the performance indicators under output 1.

Project Number: 49083-001
Project Name: Countercyclical Support
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Consolidation of social welfare reforms needs time and sustained engagement.

Project Number: 49210-001
Project Name: Social Welfare Support Program
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Aligning social welfare programs with fiscal consolidation goals boosts the likelihood of success in both areas of endeavor.

Project Number: 49210-001
Project Name: Social Welfare Support Program
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Social welfare programs contain the impact of economic crises on the poor.

Project Number: 49210-001
Project Name: Social Welfare Support Program
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No additional lesson.

Project Number: 39516-023, 39516-013
Project Name: Local Government Financing and Budget Reform Program Cluster
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The integrated approach to disaster recovery operations beyond infrastructure restoration to also include activities directed at restoring livelihood and improving the resilience of infrastructure and economic activity to disasters.

Project Number: 39631-013
Project Name: Earthquake Emergency Assistance Project
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Requiring project preparatory technical consultants to coordinate closely with the government agencies to ensure compatibility of project design with the sector strategy of the government is a standard operating procedure, yet is often taken for granted.

Project Number: 28309-013
Project Name: Upper Secondary Education Development Project
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Pilot studies are a worthwhile project subcomponent as they map a path for introducing innovations and for building capacity within local agencies.

Project Number: 28309-013
Project Name: Upper Secondary Education Development Project
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Having teacher and school management training in local schools could result in engaging high-performing leaders and local managers as trainers.

Project Number: 28309-013
Project Name: Upper Secondary Education Development Project
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