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ADB financial sector operations in India. The limited fiscal space for government guarantees, including to India Infrastructure Finance Company Limited, emphasizes the need for innovation and well-structured ADB interventions in the financial sector and infrastructure financing, including public nonsovereign operations, for ADB to remain relevant to changes and financial market developments in India.

Project Number: 41036-013
Project Name: Second India Infrastructure Project Financing Facility
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The success of India Infrastructure Project Financing Facility II draws important lessons of building and maintaining strong partnerships during project implementation, not only with the government and India Infrastructure Finance Company Limited (IIFCL) but also with development partners, banks and financial institutions, project sponsors, and other stakeholders. Building awareness, continuous dialogue, and strengthening safeguard practices of IIFCL and banks/ and financial institutions are crucial to ensure effective project implementation and disbursements.

Project Number: 41036-013
Project Name: Second India Infrastructure Project Financing Facility
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Although Kunming municipal government and Yunnan provincial government provided additional counterpart funding for the project and committed to share a big portion of the ADB loan repayment, KWSG undertook a heavy financial burden resulting from domestic commercial loans for the project (about 44% of the total project cost) and the associated water plants and distribution works (100% of the total cost).

Project Number: 40052-013
Project Name: Kunming Qingshuihai Water Supply Project
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The cost estimates at appraisal are conservative as they are based on the preliminary design with limited geological investigations. The potential cost increase due to complex and difficult terrain and geological conditions was not fully taken into account.

Project Number: 40052-013
Project Name: Kunming Qingshuihai Water Supply Project
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Procurement could have been improved. Civil works for conveyance works could have been grouped in bigger packages to attract contractors with good reputation, higher qualification, stronger financial resources, and more experience with large civil works contracts. This will reduce the risk of contract implementation as well as reduce the cost for managing the large number of contracts.

Project Number: 40052-013
Project Name: Kunming Qingshuihai Water Supply Project
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The project facilitated the following corporate governance reforms of KWSG

Project Number: 40052-013
Project Name: Kunming Qingshuihai Water Supply Project
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In addition to the physical works, a water quality online monitoring system was established under the project. The system will be integrated into the management information systems developed by KWSG which, as the central water supply monitoring and control platform, will play a significant role in supervising and monitoring the overall supply of reliable, safe and clean water to the city in the future.

Project Number: 40052-013
Project Name: Kunming Qingshuihai Water Supply Project
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Strong commitment from the executing agency and the implementing agency is critical for successful project implementation. Yunnan provincial government and Kunming municipal government strongly supported the project. Additional CNY260 million counterpart funds were provided, and the provincial and municipal governments committed to share partial ADB loan repayment to help release Kunming Water Supply Group Company Limited (KWSG)'s financial burden.

Project Number: 40052-013
Project Name: Kunming Qingshuihai Water Supply Project
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The 299.7 km four-lane expressway was constructed along the existing two-lane class II national highway (G314) and about 85.0 km of the existing highway was intermittently utilized as a part of the expressway. The advantages of using the existing road were the low cost of construction and less land acquisition and resettlement. However, there were disadvantages. First, using the existing road resulted in higher maintenance costs.

Project Number: 39655-013
Project Name: Xinjiang Regional Road Improvement Project (Korla - Kuqa Section)
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Special features. The inclusion of special features in project design should have been supported by careful formulation within the existing institutional context and allocation of sufficient funding to ensure adequate implementation and achievement of expected results.

Project Number: 39149-013
Project Name: Western Guangxi Roads Development Project
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The project yielded the following insights for similar, future community-driven development projects: (i) Inclusive involvement of community members in decision making and implementation of infrastructure projects is needed to ensure ownership and transparency. (ii) Community facilitators and consultants must be well selected so that only qualified and committed personnel are deployed to support communities in the empowerment process and on technical matters.

Project Number: 38385-013
Project Name: Rural Infrastructure Support to the PNPM Mandiri Project II
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To minimize the cost for rehabilitating local roads, some existing bridges were not included in the project for reconstruction or reinforcement. The improved road network together with the construction of other expressway projects in the area triggered a significant increase in traffic volume, which resulted in damage to Changyishao Bridge in Huayuan-Fenghuang. In June 2012, serious safety problems were detected that subsequently stopped vehicle traffic on the bridge.

Project Number: 37494-013
Project Name: Hunan Roads Development III Project
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Ambitious project design including diverse technical and geographic coverage combined with innovative project procedures can delay implementation until all implementing agencies fully understand the process. _x005F_x000D__x005F_x000D_Competitive bidding for agricultural research based on clear selection criteria that prioritize marginal areas and are formulated jointly by researchers and extension workers can lead to more user-responsive and demand-driven research, which also can be immediately extended to poor farmers.

Project Number: 36304-013
Project Name: Agriculture Science and Technology Project
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Early proactive engagement with project stakeholders could have been done for readiness in critical areas. Although the project largely achieved its intended outcome and outputs and had significant impact on the capital market and insurance sector of the country, implementation began much later than scheduled because of delayed recruitment of consultants. _x005F_x000D__x005F_x000D_Training component could be spread over the implementation period.

Project Number: 36197-013
Project Name: Improvement of Capital Market and Insurance Governance TA Loan
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The free connection policy has clearly shown its enormous impact on water supply coverage. A condition of connecting a premise to the water supply is that it must have a sanitation facility complying with local sanitation regulations. Residents are willing to install an approved sanitation facility so they can access the free connection to the piped system. Moreover, this policy has tremendously impacted sanitation coverage in the target communities.

Project Number: 34197-032, 34197-042
Project Name: Northern and Central Regions Water Supply and Sanitation Sector
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