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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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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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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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Due diligence on project procurement should be improved to ensure that contract packaging, contracting methods, and standard bidding documents are defined to suit the needs and capacities of the EA and IAs, to avoid changes and noncompliance during implementation.

Project Number: 40682-013
Project Name: Integrated Renewable Biomass Energy Development Sector Project
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In terms of primary counterpart selection for project implementation in biogas use, the National Energy Administration should have had a leading role. It possesses the technological know-how on biogas use in rural areas to guide and demonstrate policy commitment to achieving the renewable energy targets at both county and provincial levels.

Project Number: 40682-013
Project Name: Integrated Renewable Biomass Energy Development Sector Project
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The implementation arrangement for the project was complicated. It particularly affected project progress when minor scope changes were needed, as four provinces had to be coordinated, as well as the secretariats of the GEF and the CEFPF on issues concerning the two grants. The government’s divisional counterparts for the ADB loan, the GEF grant, and the CEFPF grant were also different, and a lengthy coordination procedure was required for each change to the project or the grants.

Project Number: 40682-013
Project Name: Integrated Renewable Biomass Energy Development Sector Project
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Well-designed institutional capacity development interventions contribute greatly to project success.

Project Number: 39321-013
Project Name: Shaanxi Qinling Biodiversity Conservation and Demonstration Project
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Using country systems for MIS. The initial scope of the project considered the PPMS as part of the MIS. Indian Railways has established the CRIS, which develops and manages all MIS for the Indian Railways. Indian Railways is a network under one administration and has an impact on the socioeconomic parameters of the country as a whole. The subprojects selected under this loan, though critical, constitute a very minuscule portion of the entire Indian Railways network.

Project Number: 36317-013
Project Name: Railway Sector Improvement Project
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The project had several significant components in the reform program, as well as the investment subprojects. The reform program covered almost the gamut of railway performance, and the selected subprojects were along the busiest routes of the Indian Railways network. This complexity was bound to cause challenges. There were shortfalls in the readiness of some of the projects because of land acquisition and procurement delays. As a result, some projects had to be dropped. The purpose of the accounting reforms was to improve cost effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability.

Project Number: 36317-013
Project Name: Railway Sector Improvement Project
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The project framework and design were not updated to reflect changes in scope. The project lacked a clear monitoring framework with defined targets. The project could have benefitted from the revision of the DMF during MTR as these would have provided appropriate measurement of achievements.

Project Number: 36317-013
Project Name: Railway Sector Improvement Project
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Specifying the arrangements for availing of and deploying qualified teachers is crucial for implementation of an education program with such components.

Project Number: 39293-037
Project Name: Education Sector Development Program
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The eligibility of schools for upgrading and their selection for support as per the agreed criteria in a program is important for monitoring the implementation of the program.

Project Number: 39293-037
Project Name: Education Sector Development Program
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Introduction of a new technology stream without a comprehensive analysis of its impact on the other streams is potentially problematic and can result in mismatches between the demands of the job market and the output of tertiary education establishments.

Project Number: 39293-037
Project Name: Education Sector Development Program
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Budgetary support for education, matched with the demand for skills, justifies large investments in the sector.

Project Number: 39293-037
Project Name: Education Sector Development Program
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Meaningful consultation and respectful relationships are essential to ensuring smooth project implementation in ethnic minority areas.

Project Number: 42016-013
Project Name: Qinghai Rural Water Resources Management Project
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