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Timely midterm reviews enable changes in scope to be firmed up in a timely manner.

Project Number: 42171-013
Project Name: Khulna Water Supply Project
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Thorough review and due consideration of government policies during project preparation will help prevent scope changes during implementation

Project Number: 42171-013
Project Name: Khulna Water Supply Project
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Timely action by the project steering committee is required to address complex government approval processes, which can cause significant delays and lead to reduced outputs.

Project Number: 42171-013
Project Name: Khulna Water Supply Project
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Gaining the support of key stakeholders, particularly the private sector, is vital to the success of reform measures to revitalize the traditional arts and crafts sector.

Project Number: 42151-013
Project Name: Khadi Reform and Development Program
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A lesser set of tranche conditions, achievable in the short and medium term, could be a more efficient approach in reforming nonfarm production sectors that are highly volatile and dependent on consumer choices.

Project Number: 42151-013
Project Name: Khadi Reform and Development Program
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A focused design, with few policy conditions, strengthens the effectiveness of policy-based reform programs.

Project Number: 42151-013
Project Name: Khadi Reform and Development Program
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Incorporating type tests in the bidding documents for turnkey contracts can enhance contract execution efficiency.

Project Number: 37192-043
Project Name: Power Transmission Enhancement Investment Program - Tranche 3
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Use of large engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contracts can improve implementation efficiency.

Project Number: 37192-043
Project Name: Power Transmission Enhancement Investment Program - Tranche 3
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Ensuring adequate procurement capacity in executing and implementing agencies (EAs/IAs) may require a combination of consulting inputs and staff training.

Project Number: 37192-043
Project Name: Power Transmission Enhancement Investment Program - Tranche 3
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It is essential to carefully study and consider less socially and environmentally disruptive options in investment decision making in hydropower. Possible alternatives in future cases, for example, could include river offtake, run of the river, small decentralized hydro systems, and backup from solar and wind power. The choice should be made through a participatory assessment that gives the same weight to social and environmental dimensions as to technical and economic aspects.

Project Number: 37734-013, 37910-014
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion - Nam Theun 2 Hydroelectric Project
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Biodiversity conservation in the context of hydropower projects requires an approach whereby “conservation forest” is balanced with “production forest” as a source of income for affected people. To date, ADB, the World Bank, and international organizations consider many of the village forest activities as failures (e.g., trees are being cut down to the roots) with government advisors having little understanding of forestry practices in relation to biodiversity conservation and sustainable practice.

Project Number: 37734-013, 37910-014
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion - Nam Theun 2 Hydroelectric Project
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Overly prescriptive approaches limit the scope for adaptive management of livelihood restoration programs for project-affected people. Clear recognition of the many risks associated with implementing a complex project in partnership with a relatively inexperienced and limited-capacity government led to a concerted effort to “get everything right,” as it were, before the project even started. That is reflected in the negotiation of a comprehensive and highly detailed concession agreement, a 1,362-page legal document.

Project Number: 37734-013, 37910-014
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion - Nam Theun 2 Hydroelectric Project
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It is important to avoid overly ambitious objectives in project design. The enhancement of biodiversity conservation in NNT-NPA was an overly ambitious objective. The area to be protected involved the entire watershed and an area downstream. Its size challenged the capability and capacity of a number of agencies to plan, implement, and sustain conservation requirements.

Project Number: 37734-013, 37910-014
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion - Nam Theun 2 Hydroelectric Project
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A large, complex development project requires a commensurate and substantive long-term commitment. The exceptionally long preparation and implementation periods (2003–2019) were essential to provide sufficient time for analysis, appraisal, and supervision of a complex project and ensure an eventually successful outcome in a high-risk context.

Project Number: 37734-013, 37910-014
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion - Nam Theun 2 Hydroelectric Project
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Quality project sponsors are essential for success, but their limitations and country capacity constraints also need to be considered. The selection of a well-qualified developer as the primary equity holder in the NTPC consortium appears to have played a major role in the efficient construction and operation of the dam and power facilities with very modest cost and time overruns.

Project Number: 37734-013, 37910-014
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion - Nam Theun 2 Hydroelectric Project
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