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A number of the indicators in the DMF are framed inadequately. For example, the indicator related to road beneficiaries claimed that 4.5 million people would benefit. It was not clear how this was measured, as the area of the project itself is basically uninhabited. While it was also clear that some indicators were dropped during project implementation, such as the number of women expected to benefit from the project (para. 16).

Project Number: 42107-033
Project Name: Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 2 Road Investment Program (Tranche 2)
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The original forecasts for traffic intensity on the road section may have not warranted a four-lane road improvement (para. 13). While the PCR listed an economic downturn in Uzbekistan for this, the validation notes that the methodology followed for the estimation of traffic intensity at initial appraisal, contract completion, and reappraisal was poorly structured. Estimating traffic based upon extremely short surveys is known to introduce significant potential inaccuracies. This appears to be a common issue, with insufficient emphasis being placed upon traffic surveys.

Project Number: 42107-033
Project Name: Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 2 Road Investment Program (Tranche 2)
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The implementation of the project was initially delayed by the bankruptcy of the originally selected contractor’s parent firm. This bankruptcy occurred prior to mobilization and as such no additional costs were incurred. However, the additional procurement process led to significant delays and additional costs for both ADB and the borrower. It would be useful to learn more about the contractors and to review procedures for assessing their financial sustainability.

Project Number: 42107-033
Project Name: Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 2 Road Investment Program (Tranche 2)
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There were issues associated with working with the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations, Investments and Trade (MFERIT) during the project. MFERIT is responsible for registering all construction contracts in the country, but it appears that there are slow processes within MFERIT, which delayed the process and led to significant detrimental effect on the progress of the contractor mobilization. ADB can work with MFERIT to improve processes generally, or at least identify a fast-track approach for externally funded projects.

Project Number: 42107-033
Project Name: Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 2 Road Investment Program (Tranche 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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Demonstration projects need to be thoroughly scrutinized so that key components are not overlooked. A board of experts who have experience in the new technology could have been convened to provide expert opinion and advice, as is done for some large hydro projects.

Project Number: 42117-013
Project Name: Tianjin Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle Power Plant 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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2. Where a project has ethnic groups as beneficiaries, their culture, traditions, and language need be considered as risks and mitigating measures identified. Mainstreaming them into project might require interventions distinct from the others.

Project Number: 37579-012, 37579-032
Project Name: Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Sustainable Natural Resource Management and Productivity Enhancement Project
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1. Also, here are additional project-level lessons: project proposals need to be anchored on a rigorous sector analysis where different scenarios that consider changing policy environment of the state are laid out so that assumptions, indicators, and their performance targets are drawn up with guarded optimism.

Project Number: 37579-012, 37579-032
Project Name: Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Sustainable Natural Resource Management and Productivity Enhancement Project
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Traffic forecasts could be more realistic considering the low traffic volumes in the XME’s and local roads’ initial years of operation. The PVR adds that stronger evaluation on economic efficiency aspects is needed to demonstrate the performance of the individual project components and how these contribute to the EIRR.

Project Number: 42018-013
Project Name: Anhui Integrated Transport Sector Improvement Project
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Risk management needs to consider factors outside the control of the executing agency. The completion of the 4-kilometer link to another expressway (para. 15) could have been settled through a signed agreement between the two provincial governments to ensure the achievement of expected benefits.

Project Number: 42018-013
Project Name: Anhui Integrated Transport Sector 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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For a project with clear demonstration value, dissemination activities need to be encouraged. Dissemination techniques were discussed during loan review missions (knowledge products including videos and information being available on the regional knowledge hub established by ADB and Tongji University as examples) but the PCR was silent on these initiatives.

Project Number: 40642-013
Project Name: Guangxi Wuzhou Urban Development Project
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Impact indicators need not always be project-specific.

Project Number: 40642-013
Project Name: Guangxi Wuzhou Urban Development Project
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