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Lesson
Close and sustained engagement with the government and development is essential to the success of crisis response programs. This program’s design and implementation benefited from the strength of ADB’s close engagement with the government. ADB’s continuous policy dialogues with the government contributed to the government’s response strategy and development financing plan. The resulting close alignment also promoted ADB’s rapid processing, impactful design, and smooth implementation of the program.

Project Number: 54180-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Active Response and Expenditure Support Program
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As demonstrated by this program, providing a TA to strengthen the institutional capacity of executing and implementing agencies is essential for enabling improved project implementation. However, a caveat is to avoid an optimistic assumption that the absorptive and implementation capacities of the executing and implementing agencies would achieve a significant improvement right after the TA and capacity building measures.

Project Number: 40423-053
Project Name: Rural Connectivity Investment Program (Tranche 3 and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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Planning for efficient resource use in advance adequately addresses the situation when the full output cannot be delivered

Project Number: 45506-002
Project Name: Gansu Jiuquan Integrated Urban Environment Improvement Project
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Active engagement with key government agencies is important. It can provide the much-needed oversight and intervention to facilitate the resolution of unexpected design and implementation issues emerging from project implementation. These especially concern issues that ADB has very limited control.

Project Number: 42414-033
Project Name: Sustainable Urban Transport Investment Program (Tranche 2)
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Effective communication mechanisms enhance project implementation and need to continue beyond project completion. The effective communication mechanisms established by the project management and implementation institutions guaranteed joint efforts to timely find issues, actively communicate and consult with all parties, and seek and adopt effective solutions. After project completion, the relevant institutions should further ensure smooth communication.

Project Number: 47046-002
Project Name: Gansu Featured Agriculture and Financial Services System Development Project
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The program's participatory approach was effective in engaging multiple stakeholders, enhancing donor coordination, and delivering the intended results. Emergency programs are less amenable to inter-donor coordination compared to programs implemented under normal conditions. However, based on a participatory approach, the CARES program made it possible to involve different parties: ministries, international nongovernment organizations, the private sector and civil society organizations. The approach proved to be effective, as the results were satisfactory.

Project Number: 54189-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Active Response and Expenditure Support Program
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Demand-led implementation and strong ownership and consistent government support are critical to the success of financial market reform programs. All stakeholders demonstrated strong commitment to the reform agenda, which led to timely and complete implementation. Sufficient assessment at program appraisal ensured that the strategic objectives of stakeholders were aligned with development objectives.

Project Number: 51252-003, 51252-004, 51252-005
Project Name: Financial Market Development Program
(Subprograms 1; 2; and 3)
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Preparation of the design for operation and maintenance (O&M) at the outset facilitates the sustainability of the waste management facilities installed in protected areas and early handover to the community management teams. Consideration of these operational matters at the early stage of implementation could have mitigated the subsequent O&M issues for community waste management teams and toilet systems.

Project Number: 48216-001
Project Name: Integrated Livelihoods Improvement and Sustainable Tourism in Khuvsgul Lake National Park Project
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The choice of a multifinancing facility (MFF)\ as the financing modality for a proposed investment needs to be adequately justified, with due consideration of the fulfillment of preconditions, scope of tranches, and the extent to which an MFF would generate potential value addition in terms of efficiency, portfolio performance, and development results as compared to standalone project-based loans.

Project Number: 37139-023
Project Name: Uttaranchal Power Sector Investment Program - Tranche 1
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Urban transport projects typically involve a variety of risks during implementation and execution of activities. Formulating appropriate project design and risk assessment during preparatory phase is critical to minimize start-up and implementation delays. This includes a systematic appraisal of the project’s technical scope and engineering design, project cost and contingencies, environmental and social safeguards, and financial and contractual risks. The institutional setup, internal review

Project Number: 43032-013
Project Name: Xi'an Urban Road Network Improvement Project
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Exploring the possibility of developing other techniques and approaches in measuring the economic benefits of a WSS project helps to firm up its socioeconomic contribution. This could help better capture a project’s results. Although time savings are valid benefits, these may or may not be secondary to the health benefits

Project Number: 38560-022
Project Name: Second Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project
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Changing mindsets from traditional investment to RBL could take time, requiring all stakeholders to have an in-depth understanding of the RBL modality. The provincial government and education department’s strong commitment to the program has powered ts success.

Project Number: 48101-003
Project Name: Guizhou Vocational Education Development Program
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Ensuring close coordination between relevant agencies and capacity building are essential for land acquisition and resettlement activities are carried out in a timely and satisfactory manner. For this project, close coordination was forged between the implementing unit and the Land Agency.

Project Number: 41243-012
Project Name: Fourth Health Sector Development Project
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High turnover of government project staff affects institutional memory and implies additional time and effort to introduce the project’s concepts to a new team to ensure the government is involved and owns the project implementation.

Project Number: 41243-012
Project Name: Fourth Health Sector Development Project
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The program proved to be a timely and effective means of channeling support to the government. Designed with coordinated support from various development partners,the government-led program, was coherent and relevant and delivered most of its intended outputs and outcomes. Several performance Indicators had specific Gender targets, which supported the government’s efforts to deliver on its commitment to women’s empowerment during a period when women were disproportionately affected by the impacts of the pandemic.

Project Number: 54188-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Active Response and Expenditure Support Program
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