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Require expanded risk matrixes for all innovative projects. Considerable time, effort, and emphasis must be placed on the development and monitoring of the risk matrix for innovative projects. This applies particularly to risk identification and potential risk mitigation strategies. A range of alternative strategies should be developed in detail for every identified risk. The risk matrix and mitigation strategies for innovative projects should be discussed extensively by ADB and the government to ensure a common understanding and commitment.

Project Number: 33251-013
Project Name: Distance Education Modernization Project
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Allocate significant resources for preparation of innovative projects. For innovative projects, significant resources are needed up front. This can include resources for assessing the feasibility of, and demand for, the project objectives and approaches for achieving them, as well as to lay the groundwork for ensuring their acceptability among different interest groups. Resistance to the innovations proposed cannot be overcome at the same time as project implementation is proceeding. The same applies to demand for the project outputs and outcomes.

Project Number: 33251-013
Project Name: Distance Education Modernization Project
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Ensure projects have a clear and achievable focus. Apart from its innovative nature, the DEMP was also very broad, with the project inputs spread very thinly. The project included the construction of a national broadband network; mobilization of non-traditional partners including private institutions; capacity building and institution strengthening within the OUSL; development of online courses, which is notoriously difficult and slow; and implementation of these courses with the expectation of rapid, high enrolments.

Project Number: 33251-013
Project Name: Distance Education Modernization Project
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A well-designed program, strong working relationships with regulatory agencies, adequately funded additional TA grant, and properly sequenced policy actions are important factors for success, all of which were shown in CMDP II.

Project Number: 43477-013
Project Name: Second Capital Market Development 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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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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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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To appropriately assess the progress and outcome of the project, project design must incorporate the measurable benefits to beneficiaries at the outcome level, and in general, baselines must be established for all targets.

Project Number: 30286-013
Project Name: Central Region Small and Medium Towns Development Project
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Delays in recruiting consultants resulted in delays of subsequent activities (detailed design, resettlement planning, environmental management planning, and preparing bidding documents). Despite the start-up delays, the project achieved the targeted outputs, demonstrating that the executing agencies at the provincial level have the capacity for project implementation and the decentralized approach to project preparation and implementation is appropriate.

Project Number: 30286-013
Project Name: Central Region Small and Medium Towns Development Project
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A combined program and project loan can work successfully together with careful management.The implementation of various reforms, such as performance-based school management, aschool-based assessment system, strengthened management information systems, andparticularly the decentralization of DSHE at all levels, requires intensive follow-up andsupervision by the MOE to maintain the positive gains made.

Project Number: 37307-013
Project Name: Secondary Education Sector Development Program
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No new lessons

Project Number: 39669-013
Project Name: CAREC Regional Road Project
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Project success depends, to a large extent, on continuous support and attention by ADB—as shown by the long delays and lack of progress when the project was managed from headquarters—in contrast to the quick successful completion after its delegation to the NRM.

Project Number: 34306-013
Project Name: Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women Project
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