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ADB staff need to be trained in economic analysis, specifically the identification, quantification, and valuation of economic benefits. This would improve the credibility of EIRR calculations.

Project Number: 39019-013
Project Name: Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Environment Improvement Project
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Since capacity building components of projects are rarely on the critical path to project completion, such as the institutional reform and corporate governance improvement component of this project, capacity building could be undertaken as a stand-alone technical assistance to avoid implementation delays caused by other components of the project.

Project Number: 39019-013
Project Name: Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Environment Improvement Project
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The DMF targets need to be project related. It used a target for impact indicator that linked project output to government revenue. While it is possible to reasonably forecast results, the government revenue may change for reasons unrelated to the project or the sector, as seen in this case.

Project Number: 37399-013
Project Name: Green Power Development Project
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The use of cross-subsidy and innovative technologies for renewable energy and electricity storage are effective in rapidly expanding electricity access for remote communities. This is critical in countries having mountainous terrain and archipelagos that require large investment to expand the distribution network.

Project Number: 37399-013
Project Name: Green Power Development Project
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The PPP model can help finance relatively large infrastructure projects that directly increase export and government revenue. This approach is particularly relevant in developing countries with weak private sector participation in infrastructure and which lack the capacity for commercial borrowing because of debt sustainability considerations. Some examples of countries in a similar situation are the Kyrgyz Republic, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Nepal, and Tajikistan where large hydropower potential can be developed to increase their power exports using the PPP model.

Project Number: 37399-013
Project Name: Green Power Development Project
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No additional lessons

Project Number: 46093-001, 46093-004
Project Name: Inclusive Growth through Improved Connectivity Program (Subprograms 1 and 2)
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The project underperformance was partly due to a design shortcoming, including underestimation of costs.

Project Number: 38662-013
Project Name: Shanxi Integrated Agricultural Development Project
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No additional lessons

Project Number: 42052-022
Project Name: Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 3 (Dushanbe–Uzbekistan Border) Improvement Project
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No additional lessons

Project Number: 38662-023
Project Name: Henan Sustainable Agriculture and Productivity Improvement Project
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ADB needs to develop better techniques for forecasting traffic because the use of country-wide aggregates to forecast traffic on specific roads often leads to gross over-estimation.

Project Number: 41121-023, 41121-033, 41121-043, 41121-053
Project Name: MFF-CAREC Corridor 1 (Zhambyl Oblast Section) Investment Program
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ADB had gained experience in Pakistan’s municipal services sector and these were recorded in past PCRs and country assistance program evaluations. Except for the successful Punjab Community Water Supply and Sanitation Project, available PCRs rated ADB’s interventions less than successful, including the recent experience with the Megacity Development Project in the Sindh province (footnote 28). Lessons from these experiences could have been applied to the design of this MFF.

Project Number: 37220-023
Project Name: Sindh Cities Improvement Investment Program (Tranche 1)
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Changing performance targets and due dates midstream is not warranted.

Project Number: 37220-023
Project Name: Sindh Cities Improvement Investment Program (Tranche 1)
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A lack of assessment and monitoring of contingent liabilities causing fiscal risk and limited coverage of public financial management affecting expenditure and fiscal consolidation was an additional risk identified for subprograms 2 and 3.

Project Number: 48044-001, 48044-004, 48044-005
Project Name: Improving Domestic Resource Mobilization for Inclusive Growth Program
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The DMF was reasonably well-designed and the performance indicators—with the exception of the initial program impact indicators—targets, and baseline data were precise and generally easily measurable. However, the PCR assessed the program against the DMF prepared for subprogram 3, which, like subprogram 2 had no indicators to measure impact, although these were included for subprogram 1.

Project Number: 48044-001, 48044-004, 48044-005
Project Name: Improving Domestic Resource Mobilization for Inclusive Growth Program
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Continuing TA support is required to ensure the sustainability of the program, especially to enhance domestic savings (output 3), and the increased mobilization of private resources focused on mobilizing private savings (output 4). Private savings through pensions and a more developed capital market will mobilize long-term finance. These reforms, however, are long-term in nature involving legislative changes and institutional strengthening.

Project Number: 48044-001, 48044-004, 48044-005
Project Name: Improving Domestic Resource Mobilization for Inclusive Growth Program
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