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Many PNG projects have poor compliance with DMF monitoring due to (i) lack of undertaking baseline studies, (ii) limited measurements of DMF target progress during implementation, and (iii) a lack of BDA who draft and complete a project PCR prior to loan closing. ADB review missions need to monitor these compliance issues more closely and require submission of an updated DMF table prior to each review mission.

Project Number: 42135-013
Project Name: Pilot Border Trade and Investment Development Project
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Border housing compliance with WSP building and electrical installation standards as well as the apparent substandard quality of this housing highlights the importance of the quality of the construction supervision consultants and BDA’s ability to monitor and manage contracts.

Project Number: 42135-013
Project Name: Pilot Border Trade and Investment Development Project
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As the project aimed to achieve development impacts in WSP, BDA and PMO should have had a greater presence in WSP, and a greater involvement with the WSPA as the project was delivered. The location of BDA headquarters in Port Moresby may have limited the rate of development of WSP into a dynamic growth center for PNG.

Project Number: 42135-013
Project Name: Pilot Border Trade and Investment Development Project
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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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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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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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Adequately taking into account institutional capacity and implementation constraints at appraisal leads to better design formulation.

Project Number: 43566-013
Project Name: Inclusive Micro, Small, and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project
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Project design should reflect realistic target timeframes for outputs that target legislation, as it is largely influenced by political conditions, priorities, and pace of reforms.

Project Number: 43566-013
Project Name: Inclusive Micro, Small, and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project
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The PRC’s energy market is dominated by government oversight and regulation, rather than market principles; flexibility is therefors required to adapt project implementation to evolving market conditions and government priorities.

Project Number: 40524-013
Project Name: Shandong Energy Efficiency and Emission Reduction Project
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It is essential to adopt an appropriate monitoring framework with relevant indicators to measure project results.

Project Number: 40524-013
Project Name: Shandong Energy Efficiency and Emission Reduction Project
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The broad range of enterprises and technologies requires commercial banks to expand their knowledge and understanding of energy efficiency technologies to broaden project origination and monitoring skills.

Project Number: 40524-013
Project Name: Shandong Energy Efficiency and Emission Reduction Project
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Technical advisory and capacity building are critical in ensuring that commercial banks are able to assess risks and returns associated with energy efficiency investments.

Project Number: 40524-013
Project Name: Shandong Energy Efficiency and Emission Reduction Project
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Financial intermediation arrangements can help build energy efficiency lending portfolios of commercial banks.

Project Number: 40524-013
Project Name: Shandong Energy Efficiency and Emission Reduction Project
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