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Updating the design and monitoring framework (DMF) throughout the project life cycle is important.

Project Number: 41598-013, 41598-023
Project Name: National Capital Region Urban Infrastructure Financing Facility – Tranche 1
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Community awareness and participation are crucial to developing public ownership and support for projects.

Project Number: 32300-013
Project Name: Kerala Sustainable Urban Development Project
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A rigorous subproject appraisal process that incorporates important bankability criteria is crucial to the success of urban development financing facilities.

Project Number: 41598-013, 41598-023
Project Name: National Capital Region Urban Infrastructure Financing Facility – Tranche 1
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Inclusion of simple but implementable and transformative features can enhance project design.

Project Number: 32300-013
Project Name: Kerala Sustainable Urban Development Project
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Promptly addressing capacity constraints and meaningfully engaging new clients will help strengthen the implementation of ADB safeguard requirements.

Project Number: 41598-013, 41598-023
Project Name: National Capital Region Urban Infrastructure Financing Facility – Tranche 1
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Project design needs to be realistic and adequately informed.

Project Number: 32300-013
Project Name: Kerala Sustainable Urban Development Project
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Significant time and effort is needed to develop the capacity of financial intermediaries to ensure safeguards compliance of urban infrastructure projects.

Project Number: 41598-013, 41598-023
Project Name: National Capital Region Urban Infrastructure Financing Facility – Tranche 1
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Grassroots-level, community-driven infrastructure development is feasible and replicable.

Project Number: 32300-013
Project Name: Kerala Sustainable Urban Development Project
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Insufficient technical support was provided to the Government of Palau by ADB at program commencement to assist with the initial work on alternative policy and legal frameworks, including merger and privatization options. Greater use of specialist water utility engineers and water company contractors with wide Pacific experience could have benefited the program.

Project Number: 44031-013
Project Name: Water Sector Improvement Program
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The RRP outlined that one of the program outputs was the establishment of the policy and legal framework to enable the provision of sustainable and efficient water and sewerage services, including allowing for outsourcing of the management function to a private company. Examples of merged power and water utilities and private sector-run water utilities include the UNELCO Engie in Vanuatu and the American Samoa Power Authority (footnote 9). These types of viable utility options need to be considered during the appraisal of similar programs.

Project Number: 44031-013
Project Name: Water Sector Improvement Program
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The outcome indicators in the DMF appear to measure the socioeconomic performance of Thanh Hoa City instead of project outcomes. Increases in industrial productivity, tourist arrivals, and employment rates cannot be uniquely ascribed to interventions financed by the project and are not adequate as outcome indicators.

Project Number: 41013-013
Project Name: Thanh Hoa City Comprehensive Socioeconomic Development Project
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Appraisal estimates of FIRR as an example need to be constantly reviewed in the course of project implementation—appraisal methodological errors should not be discovered during a completion mission.Sector-level lessons. The special features of the project design needs to be further promoted where possible.

Project Number: 41013-013
Project Name: Thanh Hoa City Comprehensive Socioeconomic Development Project
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Consultation was undertaken at appraisal and fact-finding was done by ADB on alternatives to the establishment of the PWSC. However, the change in the government resulted in changes in the sector reform choices undertaken and resulted in less commitment to the program. For similar policy-based loans, the lesson is to develop ownership indicators for programs ex-ante, which are sufficiently robust to ensure that government commitment is maintained irrespective of sector reform pathways.

Project Number: 44031-013
Project Name: Water Sector Improvement Program
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Additional consideration should have been given to the provision of the following, which addresses particular problems encountered: The lack of consultant staff willing to work in Jammu and Kashmir should have been anticipated.

Project Number: 38136-013
Project Name: Multisector Project for Infrastructure Rehabilitation in Jammu and Kashmir
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Consultant’s bid documents and the terms of references should have been strengthened before these were issued.

Project Number: 38136-013
Project Name: Multisector Project for Infrastructure Rehabilitation in Jammu and Kashmir
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