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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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A holistic and in-depth assessment of project context and adequate stakeholder consultations are important to ensure project readiness in identification of candidate subprojects and to avoid unnecessary changes leading to delays. For example, change of the location for the solid waste management subproject due to unavailability of land in the originally proposed location.

Project Number: 39298-013
Project Name: City Region Development Project
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For sector loan projects where several past related interventions and investments were provided, building on progress achieved from them and duly taking account of relevant recommendations can optimize project design and fasttrack project implementation towards efficient fund utilization and satisfactory delivery of project outputs. In the case of this project, its design capitalized on the capacity of the implementing agencies strengthened through previous ADB projects and the flexibility of a sector loan to incentivize them to perform and compete for securing the investment funds.

Project Number: 39298-013
Project Name: City Region Development Project
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Additional lesson: The TA cluster modality addressing many sectors (as in this project) can enable effective application of the “One ADB” concept with resident mission and HQ staff engaged.

Project Number: 46380-001
Project Name: Sustainable Infrastructure Assistance Program
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Additional lesson provided by IRM during interdepartmental comments: Cluster TAs such as SIAP have long approval processes due to the need to obtain separate approvals from the Steering Committee as well as ADB management.

Project Number: 46380-001
Project Name: Sustainable Infrastructure Assistance Program
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Additional lesson provided by IRM during interdepartmental comments: Providing TA support when projects are not in the Blue Book5 and counterparts have not issued commitment letters presents a unique risk that future TA interventions should mitigate.

Project Number: 46380-001
Project Name: Sustainable Infrastructure Assistance Program
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Additional lesson: Meaningful outcome indicators are consistently, plausibly, and directly linked to desired outcomes.

Project Number: 46380-001
Project Name: Sustainable Infrastructure Assistance Program
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As noted in the TCR self_x005F_x0002_assessment above, SIAP was instrumental in leveraging significantly more funding from ADB and the Government of Australia for SIAP2.

Project Number: 46380-001
Project Name: Sustainable Infrastructure Assistance Program
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Additional lesson: Effective TA implementation to improve project readiness and strengthen policy advisory and capacity building can trigger a follow-on TA and new donor funding (as in this project).

Project Number: 46380-001
Project Name: Sustainable Infrastructure Assistance Program
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Boosting ADB resident mission capacity to provide support in key areas where EA/IA capacities are lacking will significantly help improve project performance.

Project Number: 43576-013
Project Name: Clean Energy and Network Efficiency Improvement Project
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Competitive bidding for loan support and capital grants to private enterprises fosters greater private sector participation in renewable energy initiatives.

Project Number: 43576-013
Project Name: Clean Energy and Network Efficiency Improvement Project
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Drones are effective in assisting with stringing in hilly, forested areas

Project Number: 43576-013
Project Name: Clean Energy and Network Efficiency Improvement Project
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Changing transmission line routes without adequate consultation could lead to serious objections and legal actions and hamper the timely completion of works.

Project Number: 43576-013
Project Name: Clean Energy and Network Efficiency Improvement Project
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Right of way needs to be fully secured prior to contract award to avoid construction delays.

Project Number: 43576-013
Project Name: Clean Energy and Network Efficiency Improvement Project
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Undertaking a rigorous risk assessment, including possible mitigation measures during project preparation, helps minimize implementation delays and cost overruns, both of which could undermine the realization of expected project results. A thorough assessment of potential risk factors such as the soundness of supply and demand projections; adequacy and sources of O&M expenditures, including other possible cost-recovery measures; and financial arrangement among borrowers and development partners helps strengthen project preparation.

Project Number: 38164-013
Project Name: Natural Gas Access Improvement Project
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