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Achieving meaningful project impacts requires adequate management information system (MIS) and reporting.

Project Number: 43158-013
Project Name: Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise Development Project
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Sustained development of MSMEs requires a sound policy and regulatory framework as well as targeted measures to address both supply- and demand-side constraints.

Project Number: 43158-013
Project Name: Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise Development Project
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Micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSME) subsector investments have to consider the size of operation of the executing agency and/or financial intermediary.

Project Number: 43158-013
Project Name: Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise Development Project
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A single point of contact in the EA/IA will facilitate ADB implementation support.

Project Number: 39415-013
Project Name: Sustainable Power Sector Support Project
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It is advisable not to task new and/or under-resourced entities with managing complex project designs with myriad stakeholders and a requirement for multiple approvals.

Project Number: 39415-013
Project Name: Sustainable Power Sector Support Project
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Careful assessment of the capacities of executing agencies (EAs) and implementing agencies (IAs) supports the formulation of realistic timetables.

Project Number: 39415-013
Project Name: Sustainable Power Sector Support Project
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Sustained government budget support is crucial to the success and sustainability of reforms.

Project Number: 38421-013, 38421-023, 38421-072
Project Name: Promoting Economic Diversification Program
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Complex processing requirements could limit the uptake and effectiveness of project grants.

Project Number: 38421-013, 38421-023, 38421-072
Project Name: Promoting Economic Diversification Program
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Proactive interventions are crucial to ensuring that reform programs remain on track.

Project Number: 38421-013, 38421-023, 38421-072
Project Name: Promoting Economic Diversification Program
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Reform actions have to be sensitive to and sufficiently address the likelihood of institutional resistance.

Project Number: 38421-013, 38421-023, 38421-072
Project Name: Promoting Economic Diversification Program
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A well-defined design and monitoring framework (DMF) is crucial to assessing a project’s overall effectiveness.

Project Number: 44060-024
Project Name: Small and Medium Enterprise Investment Program (Tranche 2)
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Using commercial banks as sole channel for onlending could crowd out smaller SMEs.

Project Number: 44060-024
Project Name: Small and Medium Enterprise Investment Program (Tranche 2)
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Holistically addressing supply-side constraints will foster the sustainability of ADB investments in small and medium enterprise (SME) development.

Project Number: 44060-024
Project Name: Small and Medium Enterprise Investment Program (Tranche 2)
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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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