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Land acquisition and resettlement (LAR) challenges, often complex and dynamic, must be promptly and robustly addressed.

Project Number: 43032-013
Project Name: Xi'an Urban Road Network Improvement Project
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Consultant selection and management should aim to avoid frequent personnel replacements, and if inevitable, should ensure that only qualified candidates would be taken on board.

Project Number: 44007-013
Project Name: Jiangxi Fuzhou Urban Integrated Infrastructure Improvement Project
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If a bus rapid transit (BRT) system is planned to traverse a highly populated area with limited road space, the alignment should be properly selected at appraisal with priority consideration given to avoiding traffic congestion.

Project Number: 44007-013
Project Name: Jiangxi Fuzhou Urban Integrated Infrastructure Improvement Project
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A gender action plan (GAP) is critical to mainstreaming gender and achieving gender equality results in projects.

Project Number: 42010-013
Project Name: Guangxi Southwestern Cities Development Project
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Changes in the project scope and financing arrangements need to be managed effectively to minimize, if not completely avoid, implementation delays.

Project Number: 42010-013
Project Name: Guangxi Southwestern Cities Development 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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Continuous community consultation, benefit sharing, and interagency coordination are vital to create social acceptance for SLS construction. The Nepalgunj SLS construction was successful due to continuous community engagement, cooperation among political leaders, and early implementation of a community development program targeted to community living near the SLS. The SLSs in Janakpur and Siddharthanagar had to be dropped, however, as nearby communities did not allow their construction.

Project Number: 42161-013
Project Name: Integrated Urban Development Project
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In future, project design consultant’s scope of work should include assessment of background and technical information for underground existing utilities. The project had initial design delays and design modifications during implementation mainly due to unavailability of existing utilities’ underground information such as by plan profile and as-built drawing. Final DSC designs were not always comprehensive. This required variations for most contracts, resulting in both start-up delays and contract modifications.

Project Number: 42161-013
Project Name: Integrated Urban Development Project
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The country’s restructuring affected GESI institutional structure adopted through GESI operational guidelines and requires revision of GESI operational guideline to align with federal structure. Although MOUD has instituted GESI operationally, other structures do not exist after restructuring of MOUD and its department to align with the country’s new federal structure.

Project Number: 42161-013
Project Name: Integrated Urban Development Project
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Financial management staff’s inclusion in review missions will be key to ensuring improved financial performance of future projects. Neither the ADB project team nor PCO could decipher financial management requirements and covenant quantifications due to the absence of financial management staff in review missions. The team failed to follow up on audit opinions and recurrent issues, leading to recurrence of the same issues and delays in submitting the APFS. This improved only after inclusion of a financial management staff toward the end of the project.

Project Number: 42161-013
Project Name: Integrated Urban Development Project
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Greater readiness at the time of MFF approval, including advance action for detailed designs and coordination for utility shifting prior to contract award, would help deliver projects in a timely, responsive, and efficient manner. Proper identification of land requirements helps avoid or minimize resettlement impacts.

Project Number: 41116-023
Project Name: Jammu and Kashmir Urban Sector Development Investment Program (Project 1)
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Water supply and sewerage works contracts should include a reasonable O&M period until local organizations are properly trained and have sufficient budget to take over. House connection should adhere to an annual implementation and financing plan and be considered part of contract performance.

Project Number: 41116-023
Project Name: Jammu and Kashmir Urban Sector Development Investment Program (Project 1)
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Subproject’s scope should be oriented toward outcomes and provide comprehensive end-to-end solutions for the entire target area, such as 24×7 water supply with 5–10 years of O&M, subject to capacity of the asset operator.

Project Number: 41116-023
Project Name: Jammu and Kashmir Urban Sector Development Investment Program (Project 1)
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