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Lesson
No new lessons

Project Number: 44060-023
Project Name: Small and Medium Enterprise Investment Program Tranche 1
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Lesson
No new lessons

Project Number: 43396-013, 43396-014
Project Name: Increasing Competitiveness for Inclusive Growth Program (Subprograms 1 and 2)
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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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Lesson
No new lessons

Project Number: 42235-013, 42235-023
Project Name: Microfinance Development Program (Subprograms 1 and 2)
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Lesson
The project was fortunate that some of the required information (i.e., reduction of system losses) were available. Otherwise, it would have been difficult to quantify the project’s direct and indirect incremental effects. These could have also been recognized and addressed during the early review missions.

Project Number: 42085-013
Project Name: Power Transmission Enhancement Project
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This validation notes some shortcomings in the formulation of covenants. First, the basis for reducing CO2 emission levels was not clearly defined, and the target emission levels could have been more modest. Second, the medium-term tariff policy is more of a sector issue rather than a project issue. The increase in tariff was critical to the borrower’s compliance with the loan covenants and achievement of some of the impact indicators. However, the implementation of the medium-term tariff policy is beyond the control of the borrower.

Project Number: 42085-013
Project Name: Power Transmission Enhancement Project
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Lesson
Some environmental issues surfaced during implementation, which were not considered as risks at appraisal. These include the unanticipated decrease in hydropower output due to continued drought conditions, and the unexpected geological structures and underground water during the construction of the Agdash substation. The drought conditions rendered one impact indicator to be only partly achieved. A more thorough assessment of the environmental risks during the feasibility study stage could have avoided some if not all of these issues.

Project Number: 42085-013
Project Name: Power Transmission Enhancement Project
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Lesson
An SDP approach increases the transaction costs compared with a programmatic approach. It is, however, a useful transition in supporting the development of a sector, and in establishing collaboration between MOF and line ministries (such as MOH or others). A CDTA grant or loan attached to an SDP or a program increases the chances of successful development of the sector.

Project Number: 41376-022
Project Name: Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Health Sector Development Program
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Lesson
The successful implementation of HSDP is the result of ADB’s long-term commitment to the health sector in the Lao PDR. Long-term commitment and policy dialogue built on trust and confidence between ADB and MOH, and the government, in general. The SDP modality was proposed by ADB in 2007 for the Health System Development Project but MOH was not yet confident enough about the support of MOF. Policy dialogue continued and in 2009, MOH and MOF were ready for an SDP approach.

Project Number: 41376-022
Project Name: Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Health Sector Development Program
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Lesson
Need to better identify barriers to access and use of primary health care services by the intended beneficiaries. HSDP addressed supply-side issues, but demand for services needs to be increased and oriented through better information and communication, and social marketing addressed to the beneficiaries. The health sector needs to mobilize other sectors to achieve health for all. Some barriers cannot be reduced by the health sector alone.

Project Number: 41376-022
Project Name: Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Health Sector Development Program
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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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Lesson
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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Lesson
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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Lesson
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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