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Avoiding resettlement impacts or land acquisition in subproject design and site selection averted grievances and associated delays during construction.

Project Number: 35290-023
Project Name: North Eastern Region Capital Cities Development Investment Program (Project 1)
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Systematic analysis of market and states’ internal procurement capacity could have avoided procurement delays due to cumbersome governance procedures and rebidding due to poor bidder participation.

Project Number: 35290-023
Project Name: North Eastern Region Capital Cities Development Investment Program (Project 1)
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Multiple executing agencies at national and state levels with overlapping mandates often result in complex mechanisms that can delay interagency communication, coordination, and timely decisions, thus resulting in implementation delays and ineffective contract management.

Project Number: 35290-023
Project Name: North Eastern Region Capital Cities Development Investment Program (Project 1)
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Clear delineation of DMF performance indicators at the project appraisal (SMART: specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and timely) would have enabled improved outcomes measurement.

Project Number: 35290-023
Project Name: North Eastern Region Capital Cities Development Investment Program (Project 1)
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Project structuring in terms of investment size, safeguards implementation, and engineering scope was appropriately calibrated to implementing agencies’ capacities and external dependencies.

Project Number: 35290-023
Project Name: North Eastern Region Capital Cities Development Investment Program (Project 1)
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Incremental and sequential investment planning under the MFF was appropriate to allow for phased strengthening of institutional capacities and gaining familiarity with ADB practices and guidelines, particularly in procurement and processing, so that experience gained can be applied in succeeding tranches.

Project Number: 35290-023
Project Name: North Eastern Region Capital Cities Development Investment Program (Project 1)
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Effective structural reforms to improve education service delivery and strong and sustained commitment from the government or executing agencies and development partners are required to address the critical barriers to improving education quality in Bangladesh.

Project Number: 42122-013
Project Name: Third Primary Education Development Project
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Strong partnership between the government and development partners is essential and very effective in pursuing reforms.

Project Number: 42122-013
Project Name: Third Primary Education Development Project
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Having experts visit ADB projects and areas of operation may be a sound alternative to sponsoring project staff overseas study tour and training.

Project Number: 45030-002
Project Name: Yunnan Sustainable Road Maintenance (Sector) Project
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Early recruitment of experienced project management consultants and adequate staff training on ADB guidelines and procedures are crucial to the effective implementation of ADB-financed projects by first-time executing and implementing agencies.

Project Number: 45030-002
Project Name: Yunnan Sustainable Road Maintenance (Sector) Project
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Careful estimation of contingencies is essential for the successfulimplementation of long duration project.

Project Number: 45030-002
Project Name: Yunnan Sustainable Road Maintenance (Sector) 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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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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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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