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Learning from and drawing on the achievements of past interventions is critical to the success of comprehensive policy reforms supported by the programmatic approach to policy-based lending (PBL).

Project Number: 51199-001
Project Name: Ulaanbaatar Air Quality Improvement Program
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Air quality improvements strengthen people’s health and capacity to fight infections

Project Number: 51199-001
Project Name: Ulaanbaatar Air Quality Improvement Program
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The implementation and sustainability of policy reforms, which can be challenging, require strong and continued political ownership, commitment, leadership, and coordination among key government agencies.

Project Number: 51199-001
Project Name: Ulaanbaatar Air Quality Improvement Program
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A multitranche financing facility (MFF) that initially focuses on piloting, capacity building, behavioral and technology change management, and the establishment of a more robust financial intermediation mechanism may have been more appropriate for this project.

Project Number: 43207-013
Project Name: Market Transformation through Introduction of Energy-Efficient Electric Vehicles Project
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Besides being managed by the most suitable executing agency (EA), onlending schemes need to be informed by a robust assessment of stakeholder capacity and commitment to borrow, which should consider feedback from all relevant groups.

Project Number: 43207-013
Project Name: Market Transformation through Introduction of Energy-Efficient Electric Vehicles Project
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It is important to pay particular attention to the risk bearing as well as overall project management capacity of entities when conducting stakeholder mapping.

Project Number: 43207-013
Project Name: Market Transformation through Introduction of Energy-Efficient Electric Vehicles Project
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Projects involving a behavioral change need to have a full-fledged change management component and engage in more consultations with direct stakeholders.

Project Number: 43207-013
Project Name: Market Transformation through Introduction of Energy-Efficient Electric Vehicles Project
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Introduction of new technologies, particularly those involving more than a like-for-like replacement of the ones already in use, requires collaboration with experts and private suppliers throughout the design, testing, and repeated price discovery stages.

Project Number: 43207-013
Project Name: Market Transformation through Introduction of Energy-Efficient Electric Vehicles Project
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In addition to assessing the value chain and market conditions, the technical viability and suitability of the business model and deployment mechanism should be tested prior to the large-scale dissemination of new technologies.

Project Number: 43207-013
Project Name: Market Transformation through Introduction of Energy-Efficient Electric Vehicles Project
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Establishing a realistic resettlement implementation schedule and allowing adequate time to consult with affected persons are essential to reducing the resettlement risks in urban projects.

Project Number: 44021-013
Project Name: Integrated Development of Key Townships in Central Liaoning
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Competitive market conditions are favorable to improving the quality of engineering designs and the accuracy of project cost estimates.

Project Number: 44021-013
Project Name: Integrated Development of Key Townships in Central Liaoning
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Better envisioning scope changes and other likely causes of project delays will enable swift actions to be taken to minimize or avoid possible delays.

Project Number: 44021-013
Project Name: Integrated Development of Key Townships in Central Liaoning
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The government’s commitment and ownership strengthen the project’s credibility. Providing timely response and adequate support from start-up to completion are critical in overcoming the implementation difficulties in various occasions. For instance, the PMO’s leadership could have helped ensurethat assistance was provided on time to implementing agencies. This, in turn, would help in easing delays in the procurement activities and implementation of subprojects.

Project Number: 42383-023
Project Name: Shanxi Small Cities and Towns Development Demonstration Sector Project
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A project’s medium-term review (MTR provides an opportunity to reassess and modify a project’s DMF, in terms of realistic performance targets, configuration of components and/or outputs, subprojects’ selection, and timeframe of implementation. Project team could strive to review all project’s aspects during an MTR in addition to focusing on project administration and changes in scope.

Project Number: 42383-023
Project Name: Shanxi Small Cities and Towns Development Demonstration Sector Project
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Giving equal importance to the institutional and capacity support and infrastructure investments under a sector loan strengthens commitment, ownership, and accountability of the executing agency. The implementation of infrastructure component of the project, coupled with timely technical support and capacity building, is pivotal to ensuring project readiness and implementation progress in a highly challenging context.

Project Number: 39298-013
Project Name: City Region Development Project
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