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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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The necessity of water users’ associations (WUAs) needs to be carefully considered at project preparation.

Project Number: 38594-013
Project Name: Guiyang Integrated Water Resources Management (Sector) Project
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It is important to consider the use of benchmarks and a longer timeframe for the establishment of eco-compensation mechanisms that often entails difficult and lengthy negotiations.

Project Number: 38594-013
Project Name: Guiyang Integrated Water Resources Management (Sector) Project
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Careful consideration of overarching and related development plans in the selection of subprojects helps to avoid scope changes.

Project Number: 38594-013
Project Name: Guiyang Integrated Water Resources Management (Sector) Project
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The sector loan modality provides enough flexibility in the selection of subprojects.

Project Number: 38594-013
Project Name: Guiyang Integrated Water Resources Management (Sector) Project
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Although challenging, meeting the social safeguards requirements of complex sector projects with scattered subprojects is possible with the right elements.

Project Number: 38594-013
Project Name: Guiyang Integrated Water Resources Management (Sector) Project
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It might be advisable not to use ADB loan proceeds for the payment of retention money, as it requires an unconditional bank guarantee that is difficult for small contractors and suppliers to meet

Project Number: 38594-013
Project Name: Guiyang Integrated Water Resources Management (Sector) Project
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Appropriate monitoring of project activities promotes timely project implementation and accuracy of project cost variations. It provides an assessment of the range of factors contributing to or potentially constraining the achievement of project results. A robust DMF, with appropriate performance indicators, helps in strengthening the quality of project outputs and outcome. During the midterm review and project restructuring due to scope changes, further improvements to the DMF permits necessary adjustment to project components while keeping the project on track.

Project Number: 29296-013, 29296-023
Project Name: Phuoc Hoa Water Resources Project
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Strengthening the capacity of executing agencies with limited experience in implementing ADB-financed projects is imperative to support the delivery of project activities. Extending necessary training and capacity building support (e.g., ADB projects administration, procurement procedures, and financial management), through the provision of a technical assistance, can help fill the skills gap in selected executing and implementing agencies.

Project Number: 29296-013, 29296-023
Project Name: Phuoc Hoa Water Resources Project
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When designing a project even in a difficult and tenuous political situation, it may be best to be strongly proactive rather than tentative and conservative. In an area that is just recovering from a long civil war, with a practically nonfunctioning implementing agency and a weak government capacity, the ADB preparation team designed a project with a whole gamut of proactive measures to bring about improved water resources management using basin-wide IWRM principles.

Project Number: 36252-013
Project Name: Western Basins Water Resources Management Project
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Incorporating capacity development (whenever and wherever needed) as an integral part of project design results in a more holistic development approach. At the beginning of the project, the MEW was institutionally weak, and the Hari Rud RBA did not exist. The project spent $7.5 million in loan and grants funds for capacity development.

Project Number: 36252-013
Project Name: Western Basins Water Resources Management Project
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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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