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A well-designed GAP can effectively increase the project’s benefits for women.

Project Number: 40515-013
Project Name: Sustainable Rural Infrastructure Improvement Project
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A well-formulated financial program and strategy to fund regular and periodic road maintenance is critical in guaranteeing an adequate level and quality service of road asset during its economic life.

Project Number: 40515-013
Project Name: Sustainable Rural Infrastructure Improvement Project
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In road projects that address rural development, socioeconomic data on the impact of the project and traffic volumes are often difficult to obtain.

Project Number: 40423-023
Project Name: Rural Connectivity Investment Program – Tranche 1
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The lack of a well-designed platform for generating long-term savings and investment products results in low achievement of program results.

Project Number: 48427-001, 48427-002
Project Name: Encouraging Investment through Capital Market Reforms Program
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A good DMF with specific, appropriate, and measurable performance indicators is critical in an MFF program where earlier tranches provide pilots for subsequent reforms.

Project Number: 39538-013, 39538-035
Project Name: State-Owned Enterprises Reform and Corporate Governance Facilitation Program (Tranche 2 and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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Capacity development for public sector officials is a long-term issue and a short-term TA, as provided in tranche 2 ,is not likely to help.

Project Number: 39538-013, 39538-035
Project Name: State-Owned Enterprises Reform and Corporate Governance Facilitation Program (Tranche 2 and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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Risk assessment is an important part of program initiation and requires all parties involved to assess the risks and develop meaningful mitigation strategies.

Project Number: 39538-023
Project Name: MFF–SOE Reform and Corporate Governance Facilitation Program—Tranche 1
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It is important to ensure that before an RRP is approved, the DMF has performance indicators that are specific and measurable, and that the data source is appropriate.

Project Number: 39538-023
Project Name: MFF–SOE Reform and Corporate Governance Facilitation Program—Tranche 1
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Although the use of quantitative and qualitative surveys were appropriate approaches to determine whether the project was meeting its performance targets, any subsequent summary report using the survey results could indicate whether there were any limitations to the survey techniques that influenced the findings.

Project Number: 38097-012
Project Name: Establishing Women and Children Service Centers
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Changes made to the DMF and the risk assessment and the risk management plan was a good practice indicating that the risks at the expanded phase had been reassessed with insights from the pilot project.

Project Number: 38097-012
Project Name: Establishing Women and Children Service Centers
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Access to improved technology (e.g., seedlings, management practices); well-defined property rights; public pest and disease management; and access to forest products’ markets, could altogether help improve forest sector productivity and its attractiveness to investors.

Project Number: 42022-013
Project Name: Jiangxi Sustainable Forest Ecosystem Development Project
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Loans could be more preferrable to direct subsidies as these provide better value for money on public funds utilization point of view.

Project Number: 42022-013
Project Name: Jiangxi Sustainable Forest Ecosystem Development Project
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Special financial instruments in the forestry sector, with longer tenor and grace periods, could help improve the financial position of beneficiaries since investments take longer to generate revenue.

Project Number: 42022-013
Project Name: Jiangxi Sustainable Forest Ecosystem Development Project
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Active participation by all development partners in the policy dialogue helped align policy messages and build consensus around a core set of reform measures.

Project Number: 47293-001
Project Name: Improving Competitiveness Program
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While the EMCC program was highly relevant in pursuing wide ranging reforms across sectors, a less complex program could have facilitated deeper reform progress in a selected sector.

Project Number: 47293-001
Project Name: Improving Competitiveness Program
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