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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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To avoid significant delays (4 years) in agreeing on compensation, careful consideration needs to be given to the following: (i) the location of the proposed house relocation site need to be close to the original houses; (ii) compensation rates offered should be higher due to cost inflation of construction materials; and (iii) the relocation sites need to be comparable.

Project Number: 40642-013
Project Name: Guangxi Wuzhou Urban Development Project
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No additional lessons

Project Number: 38411-023
Project Name: Orissa Integrated Irrigated Agriculture and Water Management Investment Program – Project 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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ADB would need to identify more adequate indicators for power system reliability to appropriately capture the benefits of transmission projects. The formulation of specific DMFs for the different tranches of an MFF are essential to appropriately measure effectiveness and establish causality between outputs and outcomes. The indicators and targets in the DMF for future projects, prepared under the new guidelines should be closely aligned with project outcomes and outputs.

Project Number: 37192-033
Project Name: Power Transmission Enhancement Investment Program–Tranche 2
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The allowable size of civil works contracts should consider contractor technical and financial capacity, geographic proximity of the projects and ease of supervision by the implementing agency. While a smaller contract size encourages competition and hypothetically lower prices, this may discourage technically and financially capable contractors from participating. This may also result in poor quality of work that would require more frequent supervisory visits and rectification.

Project Number: 40559-013
Project Name: Second Urban Governance and Infrastructure Improvement (Sector) Project
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No additional lessons

Project Number: 48478-001
Project Name: Fiscal Sustainability Reform Program
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No additional lessons

Project Number: 38492-013
Project Name: Power Grid Transmission (Sector) Project
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Regarding results framework and methodology level lessons, this validation suggests that since one of the MFF outcomes was for better financial performance of the distribution companies, ADB should emphasize more on the monitoring of financial performance over the 5 or more years of project implementation. Improvement in the physical infrastructure of the power systems should go hand-in-hand with improvements in the financial soundness of these companies. Corrective measures to financial performance should be during implementation when ADB has the most leverage.

Project Number: 32298-063
Project Name: MFF-Madhya Pradesh Power Sector Investment Program (Tranche 5)
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The number of projects and subprojects to be implemented under any assistance package must consider the absorptive capacity of local contractors, availability of construction materials, and local labor. Close attention must be given to the quality of the facilities and infrastructures built. Utilizing local contractors and labor have their trade-offs, such as implementation delays and deficiency in financial resources, but the quality of the completed facilities is nonnegotiable. This would require closer supervision, frequent monitoring, and faster processing of payments.

Project Number: 44065-013
Project Name: Conflict-Affected Region Emergency Project
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