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Lesson
The DMF should provide short-, medium-, and long-term indicators to help ensure that progress is being made as planned.

Project Number: 47337-001
Project Name: Emergency Assistance for Relief And Recovery from Typhoon Yolanda
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Risk management framework is vital in mitigating the high-risk aspects of the project. These could be avoided by specifically monitoring those risks that remain high. This need to be articulated in the RRP so that the borrower reports back on these high-risk areas, and to satisfy the ADB concern that appropriate monitoring is occurring.

Project Number: 47337-001
Project Name: Emergency Assistance for Relief And Recovery from Typhoon Yolanda
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The government’s commitment to reforms and buy-in to the program are critical success factors.

Project Number: 46372-001
Project Name: Support for Myanmar’s Reforms for Inclusive Growth Program
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Emphasizes the value of undertaking a comprehensive baseline study in the project management cycle and a not too complicated and ambitious project design.

Project Number: 37530-013
Project Name: Rural Development Project
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No new lessons

Project Number: 36455-013
Project Name: Central Yunnan Roads Development Project
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The executing agency and the national project implementation team need to have adequate capacity to undertake the varied roles required in a broad project like this. Such roles as procurement, management of civil works contracts, record keeping, monitoring, and evaluation are just some of the necessary attributes required of a project management team. If the capacity is not present at inception, then part of the initial implementation process should include provision for on-the-job training and capacity building.

Project Number: 38559-022
Project Name: Enhancing Education Quality Project
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If a large number of reforms is attempted (especially on government policy), then there must be strong stakeholder engagement and ongoing commitment from the government through its executing agency at every step of the implementation. This project was helped by pre-project stakeholder engagement and continuous government consultation and commitment.

Project Number: 38559-022
Project Name: Enhancing Education Quality Project
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The recruitment of consultants took longer than expected. Again, the PCR did not indicate the reason for the delays although the complexity of the consultancy contract may have been partly responsible. Under the project, implementation consultants were to be hired under a single contract yet this was divided into two packages—one to be financed by AFD and the other by ADB. This is an unusual arrangement and assistance from ADB and AFD during the recruitment process may have helped facilitate and expedite the recruitment process.

Project Number: 33356-013, 33356-014
Project Name: Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Nam Ngum River Basin Development Sector Project
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The need for ADB to be proactive and to keep an open dialogue with the government to minimize any delay in loan effectiveness. The PCR did not identify the reason for the long delay, nor did it mention any attempt by ADB to resolve any difficulty that was causing the delay. The Lao PDR is not a new borrower from ADB and is, therefore, generally familiar with the requirements of loan effectiveness, hence, potential problem caused by new procedure or policies of the government should have been identified during project preparation and measures to mitigate these should have been included.

Project Number: 33356-013, 33356-014
Project Name: Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Nam Ngum River Basin Development Sector 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: 37041-013
Project Name: Second Power Transmission and Distribution Project
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Knowledge about local context and political dynamics will be important, as well as investing enough time for dialogue and consultation with local stakeholders.

Project Number: 30303-013
Project Name: Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environmental Management Project
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Finding the right balance of complexity is important, and ADB should spend enough time during project preparation to decide how complex or simple the project scope will be. Lessons from evaluation studies indicate that projects with fewer subprojects are easier to manage and achieve better results.

Project Number: 30303-013
Project Name: Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environmental Management Project
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It is easier to build new infrastructure than to repair the existing infrastructure, in terms of both cost and political benefit/visibility. Local authorities and ADB have focused on new infrastructure in the past. Replacing old and leaky water lines is expensive, not because of the water pipe itself, but because of road repairs and related traffic disruption in busy, already overcrowded lanes and streets. These associated expenditures cost several times more than the water line itself, and are often underestimated.

Project Number: 30303-013
Project Name: Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environmental Management Project
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Future projects need to develop clear rules and obligations for efficient water sharing. ADB loan covenants need to ensure that city governments, with assistance from state and national governments, resolve cost-sharing arrangements before the project is closed and assets are transferred.

Project Number: 30303-013
Project Name: Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environmental Management Project
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