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The delays early on during the project implementation suggested that it was important for the PMU to have an appropriate mix of full- and part-time personnel. In this project’s case, more full-time staff were required early in the project to attend fully to activities that were different from routine government activities, such as familiarization with the enhanced SPS regimes, ADB procurement requirements, and other procedures. PMU’s too many part-time appointments caused inefficiencies in procurement and timely implementation of the project activities.

Project Number: 43120-025
Project Name: Trade Facilitation: Improved Sanitary and Phytosanitary Handling in Greater Mekong Subregion Trade Project
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Pilot testing is an appropriate approach to introduce a new regulatory requirement to demonstrate its relevance and benefits to the industry, test its effectiveness, and determine areas for improvement in design and implementation. Pilot testing can generate substantial demonstration effects that justify a program’s nationwide expansion.

Project Number: 43120-025
Project Name: Trade Facilitation: Improved Sanitary and Phytosanitary Handling in Greater Mekong Subregion Trade Project
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Focusing the development efforts on the very poorest and most backward regions will often result in a more expensive investment with lower economic gains and impact. Investment funds spent on the project could have had a much broader and wider impact if invested in a region with greater development potential. There are regions that are better off with development funding through social assistance and/or transfer payments to ease the poverty situation than investment projects. The latter would be a less technically and economically practical option.

Project Number: 42016-013
Project Name: Qinghai Rural Water Resources Management Project
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More careful assessment of the targeted area’s topography for gravity irrigation project enhances project performance, including agricultural productivity. For instance, determining the suitability of land area and its compatibility with irrigation development through the examination of the supply and quality of water resources, agro-climatic conditions, carrying capacity, and cropping intensity, including the agricultural practices and beneficiaries’ culture in place, supports a productive and sustainable management of irrigation and drainage system.

Project Number: 42016-013
Project Name: Qinghai Rural Water Resources Management Project
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More time needs to be allotted for loan effectiveness if there are institutional changes to be made and implemented. The 90 days provided was insufficient when government bureaucracy requires review and approval up to the highest levels.

Project Number: 35049-023, 35049-033, 35049-012
Project Name: Padma Multipurpose Bridge Design Project
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Ensuring the availability of adequate project funding through firm financial commitment from project stakeholders at the onset of project appraisal is important in mitigating possible delays and risks. This helps to ensure adequate funding for detailed engineering design and other related projectpreparatory activities.

Project Number: 35049-023, 35049-033, 35049-012
Project Name: Padma Multipurpose Bridge Design Project
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Rigorous assessments on the costs of project design and feasibility studies during project preparation can help avoid design inconsistencies and scope changes. A more careful assessment in identifying all project components (e.g., surveys and studies) and procurement costs (e.g., civil works and consultancy services), including appropriate cost contingencies, are crucial in ensuring that project expenditures are consistent with the financial plans, budget, and project activities.

Project Number: 35049-023, 35049-033, 35049-012
Project Name: Padma Multipurpose Bridge Design Project
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Sustained efforts in providing adequate oversight and coordination between the government and concerned development partners are crucial for the timely implementation of a project. In particular, active and regular engagement among the stakeholders enhance monitoring and supervision of activities. This facilitates timely decision-making and helps minimize implementation issues.

Project Number: 45067-005
Project Name: Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 6 (Marakand–Karshi) Railway Electrification Project
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Accurate estimates of technical parameters, indicators, and an improved demand analysis allow a more robust assessment of the project’s economic viability and development impact. Obtaining reliable existing traffic data along with developing sound traffic demand forecast volume would facilitate securing some of the key inputs required for the related efforts. It would also be beneficial to ascertain diverted and newly generated traffic volume including the identification of anticipated demand-shifting factors.

Project Number: 45067-005
Project Name: Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 6 (Marakand–Karshi) Railway Electrification Project
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Extensive consultations are critical for identifying and addressing unforeseeable issues emerging from project implementation. By being responsive and flexible, potential duplication of project works can be avoided, and synergy between ADB and other development partners with shared interestscan be created to harmonize the support and maximize the benefits for the target borrower. As in this case, the project adjusted its scope of RAMS development because of the World Bank project approved in March 2015.

Project Number: 45030-002
Project Name: Yunnan Sustainable Road Maintenance (Sector) Project
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It is important to perform an adequate due diligence at appraisal to develop a realistic project schedule that duly considers the borrower's institutional setup and internal review and approval procedures, and the executing agency's existing capacity and prior experience in implementing ADB projects. Identifying and implementing risk mitigation measures and providing early implementation support are crucial in minimizing initial delays and facilitating timely implementation progress.

Project Number: 45030-002
Project Name: Yunnan Sustainable Road Maintenance (Sector) Project
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Given the long-term nature of support to sector plans, continuous update of inventory of interventions and partnerships, along with their achievements, issues, lessons, and recommendations, can benefit future interventions in the sector. For sector loan projects where 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 fast-track project implementation toward efficient fund utilization and satisfactory delivery of project outputs.

Project Number: 45030-002
Project Name: Yunnan Sustainable Road Maintenance (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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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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