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Effective coordination and implementation arrangements foster the success of programs/projects.

Project Number: 41373-012, 41373-013
Project Name: Public Financial Management for Rural Development Program
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Implementation of reforms takes time and requires long-term commitment and support.

Project Number: 41373-012, 41373-013
Project Name: Public Financial Management for Rural Development Program
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Alignment with government priorities favors the successful implementation of reform programs.

Project Number: 41373-012, 41373-013
Project Name: Public Financial Management for Rural Development Program
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Combining policy-based financing with project support is suitable for advancing far-ranging policy and institutional reforms.

Project Number: 41373-012, 41373-013
Project Name: Public Financial Management for Rural Development Program
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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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Well designed and adequately resourced technical assistance is critical in helping governments with limited technical capacity deliver a complex set of reforms. This is demonstrated by the broadening of the tax base by implementing the goods and services tax. Collected revenue doubled during 2012–2016 with the help of sustained and targeted support from ADB starting in 2010.

Project Number: 39658-013
Project Name: Economic Recovery Program
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Successful privatization of state-owned enterprises requires strong political commitment and government ownership. The new government failed to carry forward the privatization program articulated in the report and recommendation of the President. This underlines the need for such reforms to be based on broad stakeholder consultations, and the importance of a high degree of political consensus on the goals and process of the reform.

Project Number: 39658-013
Project Name: Economic Recovery Program
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Information technology (IT) can be used to standardize and enhance the quality and accessibility of service delivery.

Project Number: 36172-063
Project Name: Strengthening Public Management Program
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Reforms have to be carefully sequenced by first setting the prerequisites right, followed by focused and gradual implementation that considers the varying speed of absorption at different tiers of the government.

Project Number: 36172-063
Project Name: Strengthening Public Management Program
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Policy reforms, particularly on public financial management at the local level, take longer and require concerted efforts.

Project Number: 36172-063
Project Name: Strengthening Public Management Program
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Policy reforms cannot take place in isolation and need to be well coordinated and have strategic linkages both at the national and subnational level.

Project Number: 36172-063
Project Name: Strengthening Public Management Program
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Implementing governance reforms from a strategic perspective galvanizes support for Asian Development Bank (ADB) reform initiatives in developing member countries.

Project Number: 36172-063
Project Name: Strengthening Public Management Program
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Improving accountability requires a holistic approach.

Project Number: 36172-063
Project Name: Strengthening Public Management Program
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