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The project adopted excellent design features of poverty targeting, community participation, capacity building for both the project implementers and the project beneficiaries, and microenterprise business development in aquaculture production and processing.

Project Number: 35183-013
Project Name: Sustainable Aquaculture Development for Food Security and Poverty Reduction Project
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The delay in project start-up could have been avoided if the government had issued Government Regulation No. 7 of 4 February 2008 immediately after project effectiveness.

Project Number: 35183-013
Project Name: Sustainable Aquaculture Development for Food Security and Poverty Reduction Project
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Long-term perspective. The adoption of the medium-term blueprint for a capital market master plan meant that the government had a set of long-term objectives to guide and shape medium-term policy design and implementation. The close consultations involving the government, ADB, and other development partners strengthened the government's ownership and increased the potential for funding agency buy-in._x005F_x000D__x005F_x000D_Flexibility in design.

Project Number: 32507-013
Project Name: Capital Market Development Program Cluster
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Progress fairly steady but slow. Implementation of the EFRP (Economic and Financial Reform Program) has been satisfactory but has often taken longer than anticipated, particularly in the area of legislative reform. The number of policy actions and reforms monitored through the EFRP has varied greatly each year - 49 in 2010, 31 in 2011, 77 in 2012, and 29 in 2013.

Project Number: 46497-001
Project Name: Economic and Financial Reform Program
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Benefits of dialogue and tight focus. The tight focus of the EFRP (Economic and Financial Reform Program) and the ADB policy matrix has helped to strengthen ownership by the government. The CEWG (core economic working group) policy dialogue contains three main elements: (i) discussions on the design and implementation of the EFRP policy matrix, (ii) regular CEWG meetings, and (iii) the annual joint review missions. Policy dialogue was anchored on the EFRP matrix with its objectives of strengthened PFM, budget reform, and economic growth.

Project Number: 46497-001
Project Name: Economic and Financial Reform Program
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Use of country systems. The CEWG (core economic working group) process has helped to channel a growing share of development partner assistance through government systems and as a result reduce transaction costs over a narrow front of activity, and make greater use of country systems in line with development partner commitments. In 2009 - 2013, the portion of recurrent and development expenditures through budget support increased. Recurrent budget grants comprised 5.2% of total revenue and grants in 2009 and rose to 9.6% in 2013.

Project Number: 46497-001
Project Name: Economic and Financial Reform Program
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Country ownership is critical to successful implementation of the EFRP. The effectiveness of the EFRP (Economic and Financial Reform Program) and the CEWG (core economic working group) mechanism has reflected the strong leadership of the minister of finance and his permanent secretary; support from the prime minister, other ministers, and senior government officials; and the commitment of development partners to support these processes.

Project Number: 46497-001
Project Name: Economic and Financial Reform Program
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It is problematic to use a country's overall position in the Doing Business report to monitor progress in improving the business environment and overall competitiveness. The report has been subject to criticism and methodological problems have been identified. Its usefulness for monitoring progress in similar programs lies more in monitoring the country's performance over time - particularly in indicators that are not sensitive to the representative case used by the World Bank team - rather than measuring progress against other economies.

Project Number: 41544-022
Project Name: Investment Climate Improvement Program
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Despite an improvement in the business environment, firms in the Kyrgyz Republic have had limited progress in developing new productive capabilities

Project Number: 41544-022
Project Name: Investment Climate Improvement Program
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Implementation of institutional reforms under the program was more effective and efficient when there was an adequate and detailed blueprint with clear and measurable results indicators, as well as where project-type implementation arrangements were in place to facilitate the change process (e.g., the business registration system or the new inspection process for tax administration were supported by detailed blueprints and financed through investment projects). The $2.9 million grant approved under the program cluster was thus very useful.

Project Number: 41544-022
Project Name: Investment Climate Improvement Program
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Traffic forecasts should be much more realistic, and reflect impacts of follow on projects on expected usage. Similarly, more effort should be taken to establish sustainable asset management systems, supported by credible sources offunding.

Project Number: 41121-023
Project Name: CAREC Transport Corridor 1 (Zhambyl Oblast Section) [Western Europe–Western People’s Republic of China International Transit Corridor] Investment Program (Project 1)
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Targets and indicators in the DMF of program loans such as this need to be extremely conscious of exogenous factors. There is also a need for ADB program to assign focus areas for policy coordination and monitoring among ADB and other development partners so that respective contributions to policy dialogue under the different program components can be traced.

Project Number: 43191-023, 43191-013
Project Name: Economic Recovery Support Program— Subprograms 1 and 2
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Greater effort is needed in assessing the political and economic context to determine the chances of success of reform efforts. The program design was complex with 25 policy conditions for subprogram 1 and 38 policy conditions for subprogram 2, involving a large number of implementing agencies and reform areas. There are benefits in keeping program simple by limiting the number of reform actions, agencies involved, and the number of subprograms under a cluster.

Project Number: 41545-013, 41545-023
Project Name: Sindh Growth and Rural Revitalization Program
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Need to constantly follow-up with the executing agency on the implementation of the project performance and monitoring system. It is surprising to note that this loan condition was not readily achieved, although its compliance was considered as ongoing.

Project Number: 36432-013
Project Name: Dali–Lijiang Railway Project
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While work on the land acquisition and resettlement seemed to have progressed well, the executing agency—the West Yunnan Railway Company (WYRC)—should have been provided more assistance in its implementation given its inexperience with both PRC and ADB practices. As such, ADB assistance, through more frequent missions during the implementation period, could have provided the guidance needed for land acquisition and resettlement.

Project Number: 36432-013
Project Name: Dali–Lijiang Railway Project
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