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Lesson
ADB could not have continued to invest in water resources generally or irrigation especially, without major policy reforms to operationalize the provisions of the Water Law.

Project Number: 38558-013
Project Name: Water Resources Management Sector Development Program: Project Completion Report
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Improved clarity on which agencies would undertake specific tasks would enhance implementation. This is the case for Cambodia irrigation scheme information system, Stung Sen river basin planning, Technical Services Centre courses), as well as administration from both CARM and ADB HQ.

Project Number: 38558-013
Project Name: Water Resources Management Sector Development Program: Project Completion Report
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Due diligence was deficient by failing to properly assess the political risk. Political stability and support for the achievement of objectives at all levels were explicit in the assumption statements of the design and monitoring framework.

Project Number: 38558-013
Project Name: Water Resources Management Sector Development Program: Project Completion Report
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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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Lesson
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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Lesson
The importance of project preparation and quality at entry is of utmost importance for similar projects in the future. A better prepared project can reduce issues that may potentially impede implementation at the early stages of implementation.

Project Number: 39321-013
Project Name: Shaanxi Qinling Biodiversity Conservation and Demonstration Project
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Lesson
The project experiences have illustrated the potential financial gains from improved environmental management and conservation. The project has demonstrated enhanced coordination in public finance allocation across institutions in charge of the environment and natural resources. Given the likelihood that such operations will grow in the region, the experience of this project will be valuable.

Project Number: 39321-013
Project Name: Shaanxi Qinling Biodiversity Conservation and Demonstration Project
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Lesson
GAP targets that proved to be unrealistic during project implementation should be corrected during mid-term review mission.

Project Number: 41116-013
Project Name: Jammu and Kashmir Urban Sector Development Investment Program (Project 3 and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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ADB needs to follow up more closely on compliance with submission requirements for audited project financial statements and audited entity financial statements.

Project Number: 41116-013
Project Name: Jammu and Kashmir Urban Sector Development Investment Program (Project 3 and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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Water supply subproject should include comprehensive end-to-end solutions to maximize benefits, such as 24/7 water supply and 5–10 years of O&M by contractors, subject to capacity of the asset operator.

Project Number: 41116-013
Project Name: Jammu and Kashmir Urban Sector Development Investment Program (Project 3 and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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A realistic project schedule should be ensured on consultant recruitment, detailed design development, and contract periods.

Project Number: 41116-013
Project Name: Jammu and Kashmir Urban Sector Development Investment Program (Project 3 and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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Continued budget transfers for O&M of assets to the line departments from the state is necessary for sustainability.

Project Number: 41116-013
Project Name: Jammu and Kashmir Urban Sector Development Investment Program (Project 3 and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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Lesson
Local context and the state’s capacity should be carefully assessed in designing an ambitious reform agenda.

Project Number: 41116-013
Project Name: Jammu and Kashmir Urban Sector Development Investment Program (Project 3 and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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MFFs impose a burden on executing and implementing agencies in the initial years as they prepare subsequent projects while also implementing ongoing projects, requiring sufficient implementation support.

Project Number: 41116-013
Project Name: Jammu and Kashmir Urban Sector Development Investment Program (Project 3 and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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Establishing land acquisition collector office within the project management unit proves to be extremely beneficial in managing involuntary resettlement.

Project Number: 41116-013
Project Name: Jammu and Kashmir Urban Sector Development Investment Program (Project 3 and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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