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The governance of the information and communication technology (ICT) sector in Tonga needs strengthening.

Project Number: 44172-022
Project Name: Tonga-Fiji Submarine Cable Project
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Capture and utilization of lessons from completed projects are vital to enhancing efforts to develop the ICT sector of Tonga and other Pacific island countries.

Project Number: 44172-022
Project Name: Tonga-Fiji Submarine Cable Project
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Timing is essential in the successful implementation of reforms.

Project Number: 52074-001
Project Name: Improved Fiscal Sustainability Reform Program
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Continued monitoring of the non-tranche policy actions of reform programs is critical to ensuring that these actions are completed on time.

Project Number: 52074-001
Project Name: Improved Fiscal Sustainability Reform Program
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In future projects, the counterpart funds should be well and firmly arranged at project preparation, including the fund sources, budgeting, financial management, and coordination among the central government, the VEC, and the local governments. At appraisal, it was arranged that the government counterpart fund would fully finance the cost for LAR. However, the government was not able to provide adequate and timely counterpart funds. The significant financing gap raised several serious issues and concerns and postponed project implementation for at least 2 years.

Project Number: 41414-043
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion Ben Luc-Long Thanh Expressway Project - Tranche 1
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The project preparation should be strengthened to avoid excessive unexpected changes during implementation. Upon detailed design, the estimated civil works cost increased substantially mainly because of price escalation and engineering enhancement. Considering the budget availability, the detailed design was modified with a lower civil works cost and the procurement for one civil works contract was postponed. However, the bids for the civil works contracts was much lower than estimated, about 30%.

Project Number: 41414-043
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion Ben Luc-Long Thanh Expressway Project - Tranche 1
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Both ADB and the government should pay adequate attention and make reasonable arrangements during project preparation. Aside from delays caused by the shortage of funds, the LAR activities were very slow, especially at some interchange locations for civil works. Eventually, the LAR activities were substantially completed in March 2018, about five years later than planned. Expressway projects require large amounts of land, which also lead to substantial resettlement.

Project Number: 41414-043
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion Ben Luc-Long Thanh Expressway Project - Tranche 1
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The government should pay adequate attention to the ADB’s policy and procedure, as well as improve its capacity in procurement. Meanwhile, ADB should strengthen project preparation, including providing more training. In 2011, the Office of Anticorruption and Integrity conducted a proactive integrity review on another expressway project in Viet Nam, which identified some issues. In 2016, the follow-up review determined that 16 of the 21 recommendations had been implemented.

Project Number: 41414-043
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion Ben Luc-Long Thanh Expressway Project - Tranche 1
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The use of CSTB procurement system and associated NEC approval process, while somewhat improved from past ADB projects, involves inevitable delays in procurement and should, where possible, be avoided through direct procurement by BDA, even if it requires close ADB training and supervision.

Project Number: 42135-013
Project Name: Pilot Border Trade and Investment Development Project
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The government’s inconsistent support to the law enforcement agents in the province, ineffective project grievance redress mechanisms, and lack off effective coordination and consultations within the subnational levels of governments and within BDA to address environment and social issues resulted in landowners allegedly acting unlawfully and harming a project team member.

Project Number: 42135-013
Project Name: Pilot Border Trade and Investment Development Project
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As a member of G20 and an integral part of the ASEAN community, Indonesia has an important role to play on the international stage. Hence, national financial sector development should include international and regional considerations. This can be in the form of international requirements or regional standards such as ASEAN corporate governance and ASEAN green bonds standards. This builds the capacity to meet national development goals, the requirements of the international financial system, and regional development agendas.

Project Number: 48207-001, 48207-002, 48207-004
Project Name: Financial Market Development and Inclusion Program
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An important project impact relied upon the government to implement specific investment policies through DCI, as well as a telecommunication solution for WSP to provide an environment that would enable WSP’s development into a dynamic growth-center for PNG. Inactivity on these commitments substantially delayed and lost impetus in the achievement of potential project benefits.

Project Number: 42135-013
Project Name: Pilot Border Trade and Investment Development Project
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The government frequently fails to meet their timely commitment of project funding assumed at appraisal. However, it is difficult to attach conditionality of ADB funding to the timely contribution of government funding. Therefore, the government’s counterpart shares have been reduced for PNG projects.

Project Number: 42135-013
Project Name: Pilot Border Trade and Investment Development Project
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Predicating a program on the passage of a law should be minimized unless there is strong ownership to pass the law from both the executive and the parliament. Relying on development partners to complete the reform (revision of a law) introduces a risk that performance targets will not be achieved. Development partners may have different priorities and timelines that do not necessarily coincide with the requirements of ADB’s program.

Project Number: 48207-001, 48207-002, 48207-004
Project Name: Financial Market Development and Inclusion Program
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A key issue was the abolition of BDA at a crucial stage of project benefit creation and realization. Although the project had completed implementation of the civil works and the consultancy services contracts, the creation and realization of project benefits has not been achieved due to the failure of the borrower to utilize the project outputs. The longer the border administration complex buildings remain unoccupied, the more difficult it will be to re-energize the commercial sector in WSP and generate the anticipated project benefits.

Project Number: 42135-013
Project Name: Pilot Border Trade and Investment Development Project
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