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Lesson
Achieving sustainability requires a consistent and long term approach. The sustainability of project outcomes is greatly dependent on an ongoing commitment by the government to road maintenance, rehabilitation and asset management. Significant steps have been taken to harmonize donor assistance to the transport sector in support of a sector-wide approach. The ongoing Transport Sector Development Project and its support to MID (Ministry of Infrastructure Development) provides a predictable medium-term source of financing through NTF (National Transport Fund).

Project Number: 43381-012
Project Name: Second Road Improvement (Sector) Project
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Proper engagement and communication with stakeholders is vital to ensure that the rationale and the objectives of the project are fully understood, and this helps during project implementation by speeding up important decisions. The good interaction between MOW (Ministry of Works), the PSC (project steering committee), and the PIA (project implementation assistance) consultants proved highly beneficial in completing this project on time.

Project Number: 38160-032
Project Name: Integrated Urban Development Sector Project
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Allowing some NCB (national competitive bidding) packages in any project gives an opportunity to engage and test the ability of reputable local contractors. In this project it was noted that the local contractors for smaller NCB packages offered some very competitive rates and, with close supervision from the project team, were able to complete and deliver components in a timely manner.

Project Number: 38160-032
Project Name: Integrated Urban Development Sector Project
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For projects where machinery and equipment are to be purchased from project funding, it should be ascertained during project design that the executing agency is making sufficient allocations to the operational budget in the year targeted for the procurement of the equipment, and the years to follow. Otherwise, the equipment is not used effectively for lack of operational budget in the first year.

Project Number: 38160-032
Project Name: Integrated Urban Development Sector Project
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ADB provided guidance and support throughout the project with frequent project review missions.

Project Number: 38160-032
Project Name: Integrated Urban Development Sector Project
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Under a sector modality, core subprojects should only be included at project appraisal if detailed feasibility studies have shown them to be implementable. Under this grant project, a core subproject (Sopu drainage channel) had to be dropped in the implementation phase when detailed design and feasibility studies revealed huge and unfeasible land acquisition needs.

Project Number: 38160-032
Project Name: Integrated Urban Development Sector Project
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One of the significant lessons from the project is the positive impact of early fielding of PIA (project implementation assistance) consultants. During project preparation, the capacity of the executing agency, MOW (Ministry of Works), was assessed as insufficient, particularly for detailed design, construction supervision, and overall project planning, monitoring, and reporting. The project design therefore provided for PIA consultants to assist and support MOW.

Project Number: 38160-032
Project Name: Integrated Urban Development Sector Project
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One of the contracts issued that was declared misprocured by ADB because the bidder failed to meet minimum post-qualification financial threshold requirements, and which was then paid for by the executing agency, was completed successfully and within budget by the national company. That work was of high quality.

Project Number: 28261-023
Project Name: Third Road Upgrading (Sector) Project
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The consultant supervision costs were the responsibility of the executing agency. As was previously noted, the delays in civil works resulted in increasing consultant supervision costs and the executing agency decided to terminate the consultants and recruit individual consultants. The consultants were paid by the executing agency and the change was made over ADB's objections.

Project Number: 28261-023
Project Name: Third Road Upgrading (Sector) Project
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A lack of data and documentation was noted throughout project implementation. The project procurement-related audit noted this, and, as determined by the project completion review mission, data is unavailable within the executing agency. For example, there are no traffic counts after 2009, only two benefit monitoring evaluation reports were available, and the project completion report lacks important information. ADB needs to ensure during project implementation that data requested is provided by the executing agency.

Project Number: 28261-023
Project Name: Third Road Upgrading (Sector) Project
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No new lessons

Project Number: 40554-022, 40554-032
Project Name: Rural Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Sector Development Program
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Despite the safety features (e.g., barriers) built into the project, the increased speeds resulting from the new road will likely have an impact on both the frequency and severity of road traffic collisions. Collisions on the project road will need to be monitored carefully by MOTC (Ministry of Transport and Communications) during 2015 - 2020 in coordination with the police force and, if and when collisions start to occur, timely and appropriate remedial engineering measures may need to be put in place to counteract any increased risk.

Project Number: 42399-013
Project Name: CAREC Transport Corridor I (Bishkek-Torugart Road) Project 2
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There is a need to ensure an appropriate level of public consultation during project development to enable the local population to have an input into project design and ensure greater'buy-in', which would likely result in fewer disputes between the contractor and local population.

Project Number: 42399-013
Project Name: CAREC Transport Corridor I (Bishkek-Torugart Road) Project 2
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Originally a total of $0.5 million was allocated to the capacity development component, but only $0.01 million was actually spent. Additional attention could have been given at appraisal to properly identify and cost each part of the capacity development component.

Project Number: 42399-013
Project Name: CAREC Transport Corridor I (Bishkek-Torugart Road) Project 2
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In order to sustain project benefits it is critical that the project road is appropriately maintained. The frost heave cracking issue needs to be monitored by MOTC (Ministry of Transport and Communications) on an annual basis and, in order to prevent further widening, cracks must be filled as they appear. Whilst maintenance budgets have increased, MOTC needs to allocate further resources to protect the substantial investment in road infrastructure that has occurred on this road corridor over the last decade.

Project Number: 42399-013
Project Name: CAREC Transport Corridor I (Bishkek-Torugart Road) Project 2
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