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The significant reduction in the amount of the ADB loan and the program cost with the withdrawal of Goa from tranche 1 and Maharashtra from tranche 2 is reflective of the quality of the work undertaken during the feasibility study stage. Better due diligence and a more rigorous review of the proposals are needed in future multitranche financing facility programs and projects so that similar major changes will not occur at such a late stage in program preparation.

Project Number: 40156-013, 40156-033
Project Name: Sustainable Coastal Protection and Management Investment Program (Multitranche Financing Facility and Tranche 2)
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The attraction of the private sector in Karnataka and Maharashtra to the program was minimal and they showed no real interest to invest or be involved. More emphasis should be placed in future programs on incentives and measures that better attract private sector involvement and investment.

Project Number: 40156-013, 40156-033
Project Name: Sustainable Coastal Protection and Management Investment Program (Multitranche Financing Facility and Tranche 2)
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Developing a financial operation and maintenance (O&M_ mechanism during project design and preparation plays a critical role in ensuring project sustainability, specifically when the government’s resource capacity is limited. For example, appropriate identification of tariff policies, revenue streams, and cost recovery mechanisms at the onset to support the O&M cost will help in ensuring the project sustainability, as well as in sustaining the project benefits.

Project Number: 43253-023
Project Name: Karnataka Integrated and Sustainable Water Resources Management Investment Program - Project 1
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An effective benefit and monitoring evaluation system incentivizes a better-informed implementation progress and risks management. It permits appropriate tracking of project performance and indicators, and coordination and accountability of project activities among agencies. An appropriate monitoring and results framework is crucial in the achievement of its intended results.

Project Number: 43253-023
Project Name: Karnataka Integrated and Sustainable Water Resources Management Investment Program - Project 1
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2. Where a project has ethnic groups as beneficiaries, their culture, traditions, and language need be considered as risks and mitigating measures identified. Mainstreaming them into project might require interventions distinct from the others.

Project Number: 37579-012, 37579-032
Project Name: Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Sustainable Natural Resource Management and Productivity Enhancement Project
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1. Also, here are additional project-level lessons: project proposals need to be anchored on a rigorous sector analysis where different scenarios that consider changing policy environment of the state are laid out so that assumptions, indicators, and their performance targets are drawn up with guarded optimism.

Project Number: 37579-012, 37579-032
Project Name: Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Sustainable Natural Resource Management and Productivity Enhancement Project
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Carefully developed grant covenants facilitate grant agreements and early effectiveness.

Project Number: 37579-012, 37579-032
Project Name: Sustainable Natural Resource Management and Productivity Enhancement Project
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Timely provision of technical assistance helps enhance the implementation of investment projects.

Project Number: 37579-012, 37579-032
Project Name: Sustainable Natural Resource Management and Productivity Enhancement Project
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Use of proper statistical methods enables the generation of reliable information about project performance and impact.

Project Number: 37579-012, 37579-032
Project Name: Sustainable Natural Resource Management and Productivity Enhancement Project
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Considering project implementation status and associated issues in changes in ADB project officers would help minimize the disruptive effect of such changes.

Project Number: 37579-012, 37579-032
Project Name: Sustainable Natural Resource Management and Productivity Enhancement Project
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Project performance monitoring and reporting systems that track implementation challenges before they become problems contribute to project success.

Project Number: 37579-012, 37579-032
Project Name: Sustainable Natural Resource Management and Productivity Enhancement Project
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Safeguards compliance reviews provide the key to ensuring sustainable natural resource management. As such, they should be undertaken as an integral part of the subproject appraisal phase. Results of the reviews should inform improvements in design and the implementation of subprojects.

Project Number: 37579-012, 37579-032
Project Name: Sustainable Natural Resource Management and Productivity Enhancement Project
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Well-laid criteria for the selection of subprojects, developed as an integral part of the preparation of sector projects, ensure coherence between the design of the sector projects and all subprojects, including those identified and prepared only during implementation. They also facilitate the preparation and processing of subsequent subprojects.

Project Number: 37579-012, 37579-032
Project Name: Sustainable Natural Resource Management and Productivity Enhancement Project
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Sound DMFs are a product of rigorous analyses of the requirements for arriving at desired scenarios, given the baseline conditions, capacities of the EAs/IAs, and the development environment against which the projects are set. Such analyses result in realistic targets and implementation schedules and provide the basis for identifying the implementation risks and how they could be mitigated.

Project Number: 37579-012, 37579-032
Project Name: Sustainable Natural Resource Management and Productivity Enhancement Project
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Close interaction with project preparatory technical assistance (PPTA) consultants while an investment project is being prepared promotes better understanding of the project and helps build the confidence of the EA that it will be successfully implemented.

Project Number: 37579-012, 37579-032
Project Name: Sustainable Natural Resource Management and Productivity Enhancement Project
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