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Financing requirements for the project should have been firmed up from the beginning considering that there were other cofinanciers. It took some time before the EU actually signed the contribution agreement with ADB and this was identified by the midterm review mission as one issue for the project. While it was anticipated that the EU would sign the agreement by June 2011, it was signed only in 2012. This caused delays in the implementation of specific subprojects to be funded out of the EU contribution.

Project Number: 43381-012
Project Name: Second Road Improvement (Sector) Project
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A thorough evaluation of the executing agency capacity’s, especially in providing the required counterpart staff. This is to maximize the knowledge and skills transfer from the consultants to the national staff, and to enable the national staff to manage future projects and maintain existing infrastructures. Under the project, MID was unable to mobilize the required number of counterpart staff resulting in the national consultants assuming their roles in the project.

Project Number: 43381-012
Project Name: Second Road Improvement (Sector) Project
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Greater project management capacity is necessary. MOTC and IPIG were effective in delivering the purely physical side of the project—the 75 km road civil works being completed within budget and the project’s closing date being extended to rehabilitate an additional 6 km village road using unutilized funds. However, the executing agency was not fully appreciative of the broader project design, including the nonphysical outputs and the importance of environmental safeguards, consultation, and monitoring.

Project Number: 42399-013
Project Name: CAREC Transport Corridor 1 (Bishkek–Torugart Road) Project 2
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The accident rate on the project roads was an indicator for the achievement of the project outcome. However, data were unavailable and improvements in road safety could not be assessed quantitatively. The appraisal design should have arranged a way of obtaining accident data.

Project Number: 41656-012
Project Name: Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Northern Greater Mekong Subregion Transport Network Improvement Project
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While the heating component helped expand the heating service area and reduce the annual coal consumption and sulfur dioxide emissions as targeted, the project formulation team could have carried out more extensive studies to include in the project design innovative measures to gradually phase out coal as the heating source. This is especially important given the ADB’s new energy policy. In the future, ADB will need to take a more cautious approach to decarbonize, as called for by the Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General.

Project Number: 40051-013
Project Name: Gansu Baiyin Urban Development Project
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The project aimed at establishing the landlord status of the SLPA and entrusting the operation to the private sector to improve efficiency. This validation views that this is a right direction and many port projects in the world are taking or try to take the same approach. However, as witnessed by many port projects, it is a challenging approach.

Project Number: 39431-013
Project Name: Colombo Port Expansion Project
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More detailed bottlenecks of the port in the three functions should have been identified at appraisal. It is now difficult to review what functions were improved effectively. Balanced investments in three functions are essential for port business, but it is not clear how theproject achieved the enhancement of capacity and efficiency.

Project Number: 39431-013
Project Name: Colombo Port Expansion Project
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Since project benefits are contingent on the actual extent to which disasters/accidents occur, the EIRR may not be the right tool for decision making. Cost-effectiveness or finding the least-cost option approach would be more appropriate.

Project Number: 39153-023
Project Name: Railway Safety Enhancement Project
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Freight transportation was initially the major benefit envisaged under this project. Since decisions to change railway corridor priorities, e.g., the balance between a high-speed passenger railway versus freight railway services, are usually the basis of a railway services plan, the modification in project design should have been known even at the appraisal stage since the Chongqing–Lichuan Railway (CLR) was to be a section of the Shanghai-Wuhan-Chengdu corridor high-speed passenger railway.

Project Number: 39153-013
Project Name: Chongqing–Lichuan Railway Development Project
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The two project components—addressing port sector policy, institutional, and regulatory issues; and preparing the technical and economic feasibility study for the SHDP— were combined into one consultancy contract. Of the total 288 person-months, 12 person-months (less than 5%) were directly allocated for JCT business reorganization and corporatization. The bulk (225 person-months) was allocated for PPP and/or engineering works or what could also be considered as PPP transactional services.

Project Number: 33019-013
Project Name: Colombo Port Efficiency and Expansion Project
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Ensure adequate monitoring of performance indicators throughout implementation, including baseline data and making adjustments where needed to reflect the actual scope of the project.

Project Number: 31351-013, 31351-014
Project Name: Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Smallholder Development Project
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Include sufficient support for project management during early project implementation

Project Number: 31351-013, 31351-014
Project Name: Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Smallholder Development Project
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No new lessons

Project Number: 36455-013
Project Name: Central Yunnan Roads Development Project
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Need to improve access of local communities to the project road. This was noted by the PCR mission in its foray to the local communities. The secondary roads connecting local communities to A380 were not rebuilt to provide better and safe access to the main roadway. The provision for cattle crossings would have further enhanced road safety and should have been considered in the road design.

Project Number: 42107-023
Project Name: Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 2 Road Investment Program (Tranche 1)
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No new lessons

Project Number: 42496-013
Project Name: Emergency Assistance for Wenchuan Earthquake Reconstruction Project
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