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Within the context of promoting environmentally sustainable growth, it is worthwhile to identify and formulate projects that are environmentally positive rather than focusing on preventing negative environmental impacts. Such opportunities exist, especially in the agriculture, rural development, and environmental sector. Country programming missions could help identify these types of environmentally-positive projects.

Project Number: 45406-001
Project Name: Low Carbon Agricultural Support Project
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The use of a proven technology attractive to project participants can help ensure the attainment of development results. This project included two poorly prepared components—credit and technology transfer—one was not implemented at all and the other only achieved a portion of its targeted outputs. Having a tried and promising technology to promote is an important step toward project success.

Project Number: 45406-001
Project Name: Low Carbon Agricultural Support Project
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Weak entrepreneurial skills, lack of financial literacy, and lack of viable projects affect the bankability of potential microfinance clients. Business development skills training primarily aimed at capacity development, skills transfer, financial literacy, and business advice help in enhancing the bankability of clients as well performance and viability of their businesses.

Project Number: 44304-013
Project Name: Microfinance Expansion Project
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An adequate assessment of institutional implementation capacity during project preparation enables identification of suitable expertise and skills set needed to facilitate project implementation. In country context where there is weak implementation capacity, complex designs with multiple components require experienced experts to enable better quality of project implementation. For example, in selecting the consultant-specialists, rigorous vetting and screening process helps in ensuring that the selected consultant is the most qualified expert for the required technical expertise.

Project Number: 44304-013
Project Name: Microfinance Expansion Project
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The DMF needs indicators that measure the actual impact of the project rather than national or sectoral changes.

Project Number: 43158-013
Project Name: Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise Development Project
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Projects need to have robust systems for verifying results and for an MSME project, this would ideally include an end-of-project survey to independently measure impact.

Project Number: 43158-013
Project Name: Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise Development Project
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Develop, at the design stage, clear targets on the recipients of the project.

Project Number: 43158-013
Project Name: Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise Development Project
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A clearer link between the DMF, policy actions, and the GAP is necessary.

Project Number: 45230-001
Project Name: Women’s Entrepreneurship Support Sector Development Program
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For a program directly targeting women, GAP targets be integrated more into the program design and included in the DMF.

Project Number: 45230-001
Project Name: Women’s Entrepreneurship Support Sector Development Program
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The collection of sex-disaggregated data is a key feature of programs that support women and the policy-based loan funds could have been used as leverage to create such database.

Project Number: 45230-001
Project Name: Women’s Entrepreneurship Support Sector Development Program
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For programs which focus on gender equity, identifying and ensuring that institutions supporting gender are onboard throughout program development and implementation is crucial.

Project Number: 45230-001
Project Name: Women’s Entrepreneurship Support Sector Development Program
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Strong analytical work supported with sex-disaggregated data is necessary to back-up and sustain the commitments of the government to prioritize interventions directly targeting women.

Project Number: 45230-001
Project Name: Women’s Entrepreneurship Support Sector Development Program
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Indicators that measure medium-term lending and sustainability could provide better measurements toward initiating a more sustainable access to SME medium-term lending.

Project Number: 44060-024
Project Name: Small and Medium Enterprise Investment Program (Tranche 2)
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Regulatory bottlenecks need to be appraised rigorously and continuous policy dialogue with relevant government agencies should have been undertaken by ADB.

Project Number: 44060-024
Project Name: Small and Medium Enterprise Investment Program (Tranche 2)
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Constraints to small and medium enterprise (SME) financing should have been fully identified at appraisal and addressed in the design.

Project Number: 44060-024
Project Name: Small and Medium Enterprise Investment Program (Tranche 2)
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