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Lesson
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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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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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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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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No new lessons

Project Number: 37328-013
Project Name: Madhya Pradesh State Roads Sector Project II
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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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No new lessons

Project Number: 39669-013
Project Name: CAREC Regional Road Project
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Project monitoring and reporting by the government were inadequate. ADB must ensure that mechanisms are in place for necessary data gathering and monitoring, and make sure that project covenants in this respect are complied with.

Project Number: 43110-013
Project Name: Emergency Flood Recovery (Sector) Project
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ADB and the executing and implementing agencies must ensure that adequately skilled and experienced consultants are fielded to provide the inputs required for effective project design and implementation. The report and recommendation of the president (RRP) explicitly noted that adequate consultant support would be particularly important for disbursements based on experience in emergency assistance projects in the Pacific when design, contracting, and supervision expertise had been insufficient.

Project Number: 43110-013
Project Name: Emergency Flood Recovery (Sector) Project
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ADB disaster response operations often involve executing and implementing agencies with capacity that is limited either inherently or due to the impacts of an emergency. This is particularly the case in countries such as Fiji where institutional capacity is often weak. The project inception report identified this as an issue facing the Ministry of Works, Transport, and Public Utilities (MWTPU), the main implementing agency for the project.

Project Number: 43110-013
Project Name: Emergency Flood Recovery (Sector) Project
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