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Ambitious targets create potential issues and expose the project to higher implementation risks as the executing and implementing agencies must spread their meager resources to more outputs.

Project Number: 38357-013
Project Name: National Highways Sector Project
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The preparation of detailed designs for project roads at the pre-feasibility and project appraisal levels could be subjected to more thorough technical scrutiny.

Project Number: 38357-013
Project Name: National Highways Sector Project
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When attaching additional ‘special features’ to a loan project, it is important to ensure that there is explicit buy in from the borrower and that specific financing is attached to each item.

Project Number: 38174-013
Project Name: Southern Gansu Roads Development Project
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Within the DMF it would be more helpful if both a baseline and with project scenario can be presented. For this project, this was not the case, which made the attribution of benefits to the

Project Number: 38174-013
Project Name: Southern Gansu Roads Development Project
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Close consultation with the government and readiness of the projects for financing are essential to avoid implementation delays.

Project Number: 37231-013
Project Name: Punjab Irrigated Agriculture Investment Program (Tranche 3 and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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For complex programs with a number of different components, activities addressing institutional reform may need to be ring-fenced from other program activities into their own separate project to prevent institutional reform not receiving the dedicated attention it requires.

Project Number: 37231-013
Project Name: Punjab Irrigated Agriculture Investment Program (Tranche 3 and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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Consideration should be given to protecting against currency fluctuations after loan effectiveness.

Project Number: 37231-013
Project Name: Punjab Irrigated Agriculture Investment Program (Tranche 3 and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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The ongoing delivery of benefits from an irrigation project, which aimed to improve upstream major assets, is dependent on adequate financing and implementation arrangements for operation and maintenance (O&M) of the downstream system of minor canals, distributaries and on-farm canals.

Project Number: 37231-013
Project Name: Punjab Irrigated Agriculture Investment Program (Tranche 3 and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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Future projects in all sectors would benefit from the preparation of a government project completion report as part of the terms of reference of consultants.

Project Number: 37231-013
Project Name: Punjab Irrigated Agriculture Investment Program (Tranche 3 and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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Target indicators outcomes need to be well designed and specified to ensure clarity of achievements.

Project Number: 37231-013
Project Name: Punjab Irrigated Agriculture Investment Program - (Tranches 1 and 4)
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Consideration should have been given to breaking out some of the smaller project components (e.g. the groundwater and on-farm water management components and even the Punjab Irrigated Agriculture Project Preparation Facility activities) into separate projects under the Punjab Irrigated Agriculture Investment Program MFF rather than attempting to managing them together with significant civil works components.

Project Number: 37231-013
Project Name: Punjab Irrigated Agriculture Investment Program - (Tranches 1 and 4)
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For complex projects with a number of different components, activities addressing institutional reform may need to be ring-fenced from other project activities to prevent institutional reform not receiving the dedicated attention it requires.

Project Number: 37231-013
Project Name: Punjab Irrigated Agriculture Investment Program - (Tranches 1 and 4)
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Consideration has to be given to protecting against currency fluctuations immediately after loan effectiveness.

Project Number: 37231-013
Project Name: Punjab Irrigated Agriculture Investment Program - (Tranches 1 and 4)
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For projects involving significant civil works but prepared only to a feasibility study level, a realistic timeframe needs to be identified at appraisal for the recruitment of consultants and the preparation of detailed design prior to start of construction.

Project Number: 37231-013
Project Name: Punjab Irrigated Agriculture Investment Program - (Tranches 1 and 4)
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The ongoing delivery of benefits from an irrigation project improving upstream major assets such as barrages and main canals is dependent upon adequate financing and implementation arrangements for O&M of the downstream system of minor canals, distributaries and on-farm canals.

Project Number: 37231-033
Project Name: Punjab Irrigated Agriculture Investment Program–Tranche 2
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