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Lesson
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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Lesson
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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Lesson
The DMF was not well designed and had deficiencies in the measurement of performance indicators for the project impact and outcome. Target dates should have been indicated the five outputs of the project involved the implementation of three components. These should have been integrated more closely with the outputs of the DMF.

Project Number: 41041-013
Project Name: Public Finance Management Reform Project
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The procurement of IT systems—including hardware, software, and related communications equipment— requires the involvement of specialized personnel. However, this is not a full-time job, and on-call consultant support could have been considered for the executing agency.

Project Number: 41041-013
Project Name: Public Finance Management Reform Project
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A GAP is not required for projects classified as having no gender elements; hence, this was not needed in the loan agreement.

Project Number: 41041-013
Project Name: Public Finance Management Reform Project
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A results-based loan could have been considered where disbursements would have been phased in relation to the progress of project implementation to avoid difficulties in monitoring evolving needs during and after project completion.

Project Number: 41041-013
Project Name: Public Finance Management Reform Project
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The bid price for the GFMIS application and main servers should have been better estimated. The bid was 43% above the price.

Project Number: 41041-013
Project Name: Public Finance Management Reform Project
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Lesson
Although the supporting TA addressed issues related to budget preparation and execution, continued support for the entire PFMR process is needed. The expectation that the TA could achieve its outcome within 24 months was too optimistic based on capacity constraints, which should have been identified at appraisal.

Project Number: 41041-013
Project Name: Public Finance Management Reform Project
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PFMR is multifaceted and requires sufficient time to implement. Supporting TA and project implementation should go hand in hand. The PMO was established to manage the procurement process with TA support. However, central treasury staff had to carry out both project-specific tasks and their day-to-day functions. This led to competing priorities between their own jobs and project requirements, and delays in dealing with project issues. It is essential for implementing staff to adequately apportion their time between the requirements of the project and their day-to-day activities.

Project Number: 41041-013
Project Name: Public Finance Management Reform Project
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Procurement matters that delay project implementation are a serious issue. Knowledge of procurement procedures is a key aspect of most ADB funded projects and a lack of understanding of the two-stage process should have been rectified earlier. Further training should have been provided to the executing agency, especially since it had limited exposure to ADB procedures and to the prices of the goods and services to be procured under the project.

Project Number: 41041-013
Project Name: Public Finance Management Reform Project
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Target dates for performance indicators should be sufficiently set long after the likely date of disbursement or policy action. This is to identify a plausible causal relationship between investments and actions taken by the program and a change in the performance indicators. This was not the case in the performance indicators under output 1.

Project Number: 49083-001
Project Name: Countercyclical Support
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Project-level lesson: Assistance provided in response to a crisis should only include essential conditions for disbursement. ADB’s Project Administration Instructions stated that the use of conditions for withdrawal should be limited to the extent possible. In this program, four disparate conditions were included as conditions for disbursement without discussion or justification in the RRP.

Project Number: 49083-001
Project Name: Countercyclical Support
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Lesson
Using performance indicators to assess project performance. Performance indicators (in addition to financial disbursements) should be reported throughout implementation to determine whether the project is on track to meet its intended outputs and outcomes.

Project Number: 44236-013
Project Name: Emergency Assistance for Recovery and Reconstruction
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Communication between ADB and the government needs to be strengthened. Despite fielding 13 missions, ADB failed to learn of the government’s efforts to undertake component 3B, indicating a possible lack of communication, which needs to be improved.

Project Number: 44236-013
Project Name: Emergency Assistance for Recovery and Reconstruction
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