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Geographic targeting of poor, isolated areas is crucial in reaching communities that are most in need of development support, but it may undermine project implementation and viability.

Project Number: 34306-013
Project Name: Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women Project
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A project’s scope must be within the implementation capacity of the executing and implementing agencies.

Project Number: 34306-013
Project Name: Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women Project
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Frequent changes of key government personnel—including program consultant specialists and project-level engineers—affected project continuity. Thus, ways to retain key government personnel for the project implementation period and beyond needed to be agreed with the government while excessive consultant staff turnover could carry more stringent contract penalties.

Project Number: 38254-033
Project Name: North Karnataka Urban Sector Investment Program, Tranche 1
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Cost estimation—most of the reasons provided for the cost escalation were predictable, such as (i) higher bid premiums for civil works packages relative to engineering estimates, (ii) bidder concerns over timely payments (as the implementing agencies were small municipalities), (iii) difficulties in mobilizing resources for interior towns, and (iv) more thorough review of possible price risks was required.

Project Number: 38254-033
Project Name: North Karnataka Urban Sector Investment Program, Tranche 1
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Engagement and development of private sector energy-service companies for replication and sustainability through different incentives, i.e., provision of credit, consultation, and training.

Project Number: 39653-043
Project Name: Guangdong Energy Efficiency and Environment Improvement Investment Program, Tranche 3 and Multitranche Financing Facility
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Buy-in from private sector companies as energy savings reduced their operating costs and increased their competitiveness

Project Number: 39653-043
Project Name: Guangdong Energy Efficiency and Environment Improvement Investment Program, Tranche 3 and Multitranche Financing Facility
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During implementation, the executing agency organized a series of seminars, workshops, and training on energy savings, financial management, and office capacity enhancement for sub-borrowers

Project Number: 39653-043
Project Name: Guangdong Energy Efficiency and Environment Improvement Investment Program, Tranche 3 and Multitranche Financing Facility
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An innovative MFF modality that allowed the establishment of the pilot EPP model and the revolving use of loan proceeds for follow ups and replication across tranches;

Project Number: 39653-043
Project Name: Guangdong Energy Efficiency and Environment Improvement Investment Program, Tranche 3 and Multitranche Financing Facility
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The program grant enabled the Revenue Equalization Reserve Fund (RERF) drawdown to be reduced in 2014 and expedited reforms. Ongoing actions under the post-program partnership framework can be combined into a multi-year matrix linked to ongoing budget support. The program also highlighted the importance of partnership (with government and other development partners) through creation of a joint policy matrix.

Project Number: 47314-001
Project Name: Strengthening Fiscal Stability Program: Program Completion Report
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The grant pre-conditions were an incentive for the government to reform state owned enterprise (SOE) governance and operation and improve management of government revenue, expenditure, assets, and liabilities. An ongoing ADB technical assistance (TA) was timely in supporting SOE reforms that preceded and continued after grant release.

Project Number: 47314-001
Project Name: Strengthening Fiscal Stability Program: Program Completion Report
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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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Offsetting weakness in low bids. ADB's introduction of a stronger performance security requirement to the standard national competitive bidding (NCB) document for works after slow performance by the initial contractors proved effective in preventing similar problems in later subprojects. The new requirement weeded out bidders whose bids were too low to actually cover the costs of an adequate delivery of works.

Project Number: 37641-013
Project Name: Hunan Flood Management Sector Project
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Issues caused by related urban development plans. The implementation of somesubprojects was delayed due to changes in the designs to be consistent with related urban development plans, followed by the contract variations made necessary by these redesigns. It also meant that the affected elements of the subprojects would have to be carried out only when the related urban development plans were to be implemented. Related urban development plans should have been fully considered when subprojects were designed.

Project Number: 37641-013
Project Name: Hunan Flood Management Sector Project
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