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Lesson
Special interagency arrangements work well in addressing significant land acquisition or forest and other environmental protection measures required in projects

Project Number: 42513-013
Project Name: Karnataka State Highway Improvement Project
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Land acquisition issues can spur problems with contractors, with impacts that are proportionate to the size of their contracts.

Project Number: 42513-013
Project Name: Karnataka State Highway Improvement Project
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Effective operation and maintenance (O&M) and strong management support are essential to ensuring the sustainability of the bus rapid transit (BRT) system.

Project Number: 45023-002
Project Name: Hubei-Yichang Sustainable Urban Transport Project
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Showcasing of successful models, in addition to strong government ownership and commitment and support, is important for the adoption of new and innovative projects and knowledge solutions

Project Number: 45023-002
Project Name: Hubei-Yichang Sustainable Urban Transport Project
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A full-blown awareness-building and public involvement program is vital to developing BRT ridership and broad public support for sustainable mass transport systems.

Project Number: 45023-002
Project Name: Hubei-Yichang Sustainable Urban Transport Project
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Speedy completion of road construction projects, which requires close coordination and adequate capacity in key implementers, lessens their disruptive impacts on traffic and other facets of everyday life.

Project Number: 45023-002
Project Name: Hubei-Yichang Sustainable Urban Transport Project
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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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Lesson
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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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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Lesson
This is a description of a follow_x005F_x0002_on activity and not formulated as a lesson. It could, for example, be: The effectiveness of a TA project can be enhanced if a follow-on TA will build on the results of the first.

Project Number: 48033-001
Project Name: Enhancing Road Safety for Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Member Countries
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In this TA, the Central and West Asia Department. collaborated effectively with the East Asia Department and the Development and Climate Change Department. A lesson from this would be: In a regional TA, application of the "One-ADB" approach can be particularly effective.

Project Number: 48033-001
Project Name: Enhancing Road Safety for Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Member Countries
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The stated lesson from the TA project is the second sentence, i.e., “The coordination of activities of this TA with relevant international development agencies, agencies in CAREC member countries, civil society and other stakeholders to avoid overlapping and to maximize the effectiveness of the project can be replicated in other TA projects.”

Project Number: 48033-001
Project Name: Enhancing Road Safety for Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Member Countries
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A lesson from this TA project could also be: In addition to exploring involvement of traditional local stakeholders and other donor organizations, a TA project can explore relationships with and participation by local youth organizations (as was the case in this TA project with regard to the Global Shapers Ulaanbaatar Hub and the Youth Generation of Tajikistan).

Project Number: 48033-001
Project Name: Enhancing Road Safety for Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Member Countries
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The importance of regular client meetings for fine-tuning of needs is a weak lesson since it is commonly known. The second part of the lesson could have been made more specific or clear, e.g., mentioning what “other stakeholders” the TA project team built relationships with, and is referred to, to trigger the lesson.

Project Number: 48033-001
Project Name: Enhancing Road Safety for Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Member Countries
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