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Lesson
This program, like others that ADB has supported in India starting in the mid-1990s, came about as a result of a looming fiscal crisis. While most programs have helped states undertake urgent fiscal adjustment and reforms; this experience raises the question of whether more proactive processes can be adopted to help states make ongoing, incremental adjustments and reforms so as to avoid major crisis-driven response efforts.

Project Number: 44453-014
Project Name: West Bengal Development Finance Program
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Adequate stakeholder coordination during project design could have prevented an overlap between the drainage rehabilitation and maintenance component of the grant and the Nuku’alofa CBD Reconstruction Project.

Project Number: 38160-032
Project Name: Integrated Urban Development Sector Project
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Data requirements to provide evidence of achievement of performance targets need more attention and lack of M&E data has characterized this PCR

Project Number: 38160-032
Project Name: Integrated Urban Development Sector Project
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If gender-related goals are to be incorporated into policy conditions, there must be a high degree of commitment and genuine effort from the policy makers to achieve the objectives with a certain degree of confidence.

Project Number: 44061-012
Project Name: Strengthening Public Resource Management Program
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A combined program and project loan can work successfully together with careful management.The implementation of various reforms, such as performance-based school management, aschool-based assessment system, strengthened management information systems, andparticularly the decentralization of DSHE at all levels, requires intensive follow-up andsupervision by the MOE to maintain the positive gains made.

Project Number: 37307-013
Project Name: Secondary Education Sector Development Program
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No new lessons

Project Number: 39669-013
Project Name: CAREC Regional Road Project
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Project success depends, to a large extent, on continuous support and attention by ADB—as shown by the long delays and lack of progress when the project was managed from headquarters—in contrast to the quick successful completion after its delegation to the NRM.

Project Number: 34306-013
Project Name: Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women Project
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Geographic targeting of poor, isolated areas is crucial in reaching communities that are most in need of development support, but it may undermine project implementation and viability.

Project Number: 34306-013
Project Name: Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women Project
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A project’s scope must be within the implementation capacity of the executing and implementing agencies.

Project Number: 34306-013
Project Name: Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women Project
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The program grant enabled the Revenue Equalization Reserve Fund (RERF) drawdown to be reduced in 2014 and expedited reforms. Ongoing actions under the post-program partnership framework can be combined into a multi-year matrix linked to ongoing budget support. The program also highlighted the importance of partnership (with government and other development partners) through creation of a joint policy matrix.

Project Number: 47314-001
Project Name: Strengthening Fiscal Stability Program: Program Completion Report
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The grant pre-conditions were an incentive for the government to reform state owned enterprise (SOE) governance and operation and improve management of government revenue, expenditure, assets, and liabilities. An ongoing ADB technical assistance (TA) was timely in supporting SOE reforms that preceded and continued after grant release.

Project Number: 47314-001
Project Name: Strengthening Fiscal Stability Program: Program Completion Report
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Offsetting weakness in low bids. ADB's introduction of a stronger performance security requirement to the standard national competitive bidding (NCB) document for works after slow performance by the initial contractors proved effective in preventing similar problems in later subprojects. The new requirement weeded out bidders whose bids were too low to actually cover the costs of an adequate delivery of works.

Project Number: 37641-013
Project Name: Hunan Flood Management Sector Project
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Issues caused by related urban development plans. The implementation of somesubprojects was delayed due to changes in the designs to be consistent with related urban development plans, followed by the contract variations made necessary by these redesigns. It also meant that the affected elements of the subprojects would have to be carried out only when the related urban development plans were to be implemented. Related urban development plans should have been fully considered when subprojects were designed.

Project Number: 37641-013
Project Name: Hunan Flood Management Sector Project
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Incomplete external monitoring and evaluation of resettlement. The LPMOs committed during project preparation to pay independent agencies for external resettlement M&E but became reluctant to do so. As a result, the M&E reporting was less frequent than required. ADB should have financed the M&E with loan proceeds, to ensure the M&E to be carried out without relying on LPMOs' payments to the agencies. The two agencies should have provided the LPMOs with reports or feedback to establish close cooperation with them.

Project Number: 37641-013
Project Name: Hunan Flood Management Sector Project
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Shortcomings in environmental management. The local environmental protection bureaus (LEPBs) should have been closely consulted during project preparation. ADB should have assessed the capacities of the LPMOs and LEPBs for programing and implementing environmental monitoring in more detail. ADB should have provided more regular guidance to the PPMO and conducted more frequent follow-ups regarding the implementation of the consolidated environmental management plan (CEMP) and the environmental management plans (EMPs).

Project Number: 37641-013
Project Name: Hunan Flood Management Sector Project
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