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Lesson
The absence of detailed cost estimates and procurement plan that clearly allocate funds for external monitoring led to delays in recruiting external environment monitoring agencies, reduced the scope of external monitoring, and caused delays in the submission of environment monitoring reports for some subprojects. The lesson from this can be considered in similar future projects.

Project Number: 40665-013
Project Name: Songhua River Basin Water Pollution Control and Management Project
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Given the importance of the project to women (based on the household survey and focus group discussions during appraisal stage), more attention is needed to identify an appropriate gender mainstreaming category. Without this, the project may lack interventions that could directly improve women's access to and in managing basic urban infrastructure.

Project Number: 40665-013
Project Name: Songhua River Basin Water Pollution Control and Management 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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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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No new lessons

Project Number: 38196-013
Project Name: Northern Power Transmission Expansion Sector Project
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No new lessons

Project Number: 32298-033
Project Name: Madhya Pradesh Power Sector Investment Program (Tranche 2)
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Lesson
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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Lesson
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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Lesson
Sustainability of project assets and O&M arrangements.

Project Number: 26427-013
Project Name: Secondary Towns Integrated Flood Protection Project (Phase 2)
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Lesson
Delays caused by lengthy land acquisition procedures. Land acquisition and resettlement is the object of complex and lengthy procedures, causing project implementation delays—although the nature and extent of the issues encountered are not described in any detail. The lesson learned is the need during project preparation to ensure the full commitment of the government and the executing agency to implement the resettlement plan.

Project Number: 26427-013
Project Name: Secondary Towns Integrated Flood Protection Project (Phase 2)
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Lesson
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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Lesson
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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Lesson
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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Lesson
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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Lesson
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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