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Adequate stakeholder consultations can ensure the appropriateness and feasibility of the design of soft components such as gender and capacity building in various local contexts.

Project Number: 42408-013, 424080-43
Project Name: Water Supply and Sanitation Investment Program (Multitranche Financing Facility and Tranche 3)
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Effectively engaging key government agencies can provide the much-needed oversight to monitor progress and facilitate the resolution of design and implementation issues.

Project Number: 42408-013, 424080-43
Project Name: Water Supply and Sanitation Investment Program (Multitranche Financing Facility and Tranche 3)
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Effectively engaging and coordinating with other donor agencies can help avoid duplication of funds for same or similar purposes, e.g., institutional strengthening and capacity building, and maximizing the efficient use of development financing

Project Number: 42489-043
Project Name: Water Supply and Sanitation Services Investment Program (Tranche 1)
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Effective and efficient utilization of project funds allocated for training and capacity building, in parallel with recruiting additional staff, will enhance the capability and practices of existing staff at the project management and implementation units.

Project Number: 42489-043
Project Name: Water Supply and Sanitation Services Investment Program (Tranche 1)
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If requirements on submission of audited project financial statements are properly formulated and covenanted, made realistic, and firmly understood by the executing agency, and timely actions are taken, they will ensure satisfactory implementation of financial covenants.

Project Number: 42489-043
Project Name: Water Supply and Sanitation Services Investment Program (Tranche 1)
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Completion of detailed designs and safeguard compliances before loan processing will minimize the likelihood of cost overruns.

Project Number: 37381-013, 37381-023
Project Name: Dry Zone Urban Water and Sanitation Project
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Strong political will to adjust tariffs is crucial to ensuring the financial sustainability of water supply schemes.

Project Number: 37381-013, 37381-023
Project Name: Dry Zone Urban Water and Sanitation Project
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Fewer contracts and adequate contract management capacity in the executing and/or implementing agencies (EA/IAs) are vital to ensuring the efficacious completion of civil works.

Project Number: 37381-013, 37381-023
Project Name: Dry Zone Urban Water and Sanitation Project
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Strategic environmental impact assessment should be considered to justify and strengthen ADB’s continued commitment and presence in the Issyk-Kul region and clearly provide ADB’s value addition.

Project Number: 41548-013
Project Name: Issyk-Kul Sustainable Development Project
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Misprocurement can be avoided by (a) ensuring proper pre-qualification of bidders; and (b) defining clear evaluation guideline that will allow for skeptical review of bids that are well below a defined threshold to ensure that the winning bidder has the financial and technical capacity to perform.

Project Number: 41548-013
Project Name: Issyk-Kul Sustainable Development Project
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Realistic outcomes in nonrevenue water (NRW) normally suggest that NRW reduction take time and are not capital intensive or asset specific.

Project Number: 41548-013
Project Name: Issyk-Kul Sustainable Development Project
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Twinning of utilities can have a positive impact on utility performance and specific results; however, as with this project, issues concerning compatibility and outcome targets may arise.

Project Number: 41548-013
Project Name: Issyk-Kul Sustainable Development Project
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Engaging individual consultants rather than firms for key project roles may be more appropriate in Vanuatu.

Project Number: 42391-013
Project Name: Port Vila Urban Development Project
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Knowledge and skills transfer needs to be embedded in consultant deliverables in ADB-financed projects in Vanuatu.

Project Number: 42391-013
Project Name: Port Vila Urban Development Project
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Gender analysis, focused monitoring, and stakeholder awareness building are crucial to the effective design and implementation of project gender action plans (GAPs).

Project Number: 42391-013
Project Name: Port Vila Urban Development Project
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