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Ensure that outcome and output indicators are appropriate, and that the methodology to monitor them are identified during program design to better capture the success of the program.

Project Number: 45032-001
Project Name: Public Financial Management Reform Program
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No new lessons

Project Number: 42503-013, 42503-023
Project Name: Economic Recovery Support Program—Subprograms 1 and 2
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Considering the large capacity development needs of the GOWB and other states in India in areas such as modernization of public financial management and information technology systems, future programs should consider longer-term support efforts in this area. Moreover, state-level reform programs of this same nature could consider a sector development program modality with a program loan component accompanied by a project loan, rather than an attached TA, as a suitable option.

Project Number: 44453-014
Project Name: West Bengal Development Finance Program
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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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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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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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Technical assistance is usually expected in order to assist the borrower and theexecuting agency to achieve the program’s policy requirements. On the other hand, having theleverage of a relatively large amount of grant or loan funding can often provide an incentive forgovernments to institute policy measures on a timely basis when they might otherwise bedelayed or avoided due to internal resistance or inertia.

Project Number: 46371-001
Project Name: Strengthening Economic Management Program
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Under LGFGR2, the government adopted legal, policy, and institutional measures, and established supporting infrastructure. Many of the concepts were relatively new and therefore required extensive consultation and coordination to ensure stakeholders' understanding, acceptance, and adoption of the new measures. Substantial technical assistance (TA) support was necessary to ensure that best practices were incorporated and then consolidated throughout implementation to achieve the intended results.

Project Number: 42208-013, 38264-013
Project Name: Second Local Government Finance and Governance Reform Program - Subprograms 1 and 2: Program Completion Report
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Flexibility in design. Fiscal decentralization is the process of decentralizing revenue raising and expenditure of moneys to a lower level of government while maintaining financial responsibility. The process is complex and involves major changes to the legal and regulatory framework, institutional arrangements, and human capacity. Hence, sufficient time must be allocated to program implementation. Design flexibility is also a key consideration.

Project Number: 42208-013, 38264-013
Project Name: Second Local Government Finance and Governance Reform Program - Subprograms 1 and 2: Program Completion Report
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The adoption of the National Action Plan for Fiscal Decentralization (NAPFD) by the Ministry of Finance (MOF) laid the foundation for developing the Directorate General (DG) Fiscal Balance's blueprint for institutional transformation. The policy design of the blueprint has also benefited from inputs by ADB and other donors. Through the development of this blueprint, the government now has a set of long-term objectives to guide and shape medium-term policy design and implementation. ADB is currently a member of an informal development partners working group on decentralization.

Project Number: 42208-013, 38264-013
Project Name: Second Local Government Finance and Governance Reform Program - Subprograms 1 and 2: Program Completion Report
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Simplification. Institutional capacity within the government remains constrained. It is essential that ADB programs are as simple as possible in clarity of the policy agenda and ease of administration. Fewer policy actions with a tighter focus on the most important measures would assist and can help to avoid dilution of focus.

Project Number: 45032-001
Project Name: Public Financial Management Reform Program
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Donor coordination. Strong coordination amongst development partners, notably with the Government of Australia, was essential to the program's success. Australia provided in-line advisors to support the government to implement many of the program-related reforms (e.g., within the MOF and NUC) as well as TA that complemented the program. ADB's donor coordination role also meant ADB was requested by Nauru and its development partners to assist with the crucial task of establishing a new Nauru trust fund.

Project Number: 45032-001
Project Name: Public Financial Management Reform Program
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Technical foundations. The program benefitted from, and integrated, a range of TA from ADB and other development partners. This provided a strong foundation for the program's reform agenda, which meant policy actions were both well founded and viewed as appropriate by the government, despite the political and economic changes.

Project Number: 45032-001
Project Name: Public Financial Management Reform Program
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The potential for large shifts in the political and economic context can create significant challenges for implementation. The program was able to succeed despite encountering such challenges as it was strongly aligned with Nauru's own strategic policy agenda, in particular the National Sustainable Development Strategy.

Project Number: 45032-001
Project Name: Public Financial Management Reform Program
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