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Complex project designs can breed implementation difficulties, create inefficiencies, and increase fiduciary risks.

Project Number: 31309-013
Project Name: Post-Literacy and Continuing Education Project
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Sustained development of MSMEs requires a sound policy and regulatory framework as well as targeted measures to address both supply- and demand-side constraints.

Project Number: 43158-013
Project Name: Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise Development Project
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Micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSME) subsector investments have to consider the size of operation of the executing agency and/or financial intermediary.

Project Number: 43158-013
Project Name: Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise Development Project
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Effective project management and implementation support can help ensure compliance to ADB safeguard requirements.

Project Number: 43158-013
Project Name: Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise Development Project
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Achieving meaningful project impacts requires adequate management information system (MIS) and reporting.

Project Number: 43158-013
Project Name: Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise Development Project
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A well-defined design and monitoring framework (DMF) is crucial to assessing a project’s overall effectiveness.

Project Number: 44060-024
Project Name: Small and Medium Enterprise Investment Program (Tranche 2)
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Using commercial banks as sole channel for onlending could crowd out smaller SMEs.

Project Number: 44060-024
Project Name: Small and Medium Enterprise Investment Program (Tranche 2)
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Holistically addressing supply-side constraints will foster the sustainability of ADB investments in small and medium enterprise (SME) development.

Project Number: 44060-024
Project Name: Small and Medium Enterprise Investment Program (Tranche 2)
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Projects with community infrastructure components should have social safeguards specialists during review missions.

Project Number: 34341-013
Project Name: Forests for Livelihood Improvement in the Central Highlands Sector Project
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Project targets must be clearly defined and adjusted if found unrealistic.

Project Number: 34341-013
Project Name: Forests for Livelihood Improvement in the Central Highlands Sector Project
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Government capacity and willingness, and the time required to undertake sector reforms need to be assessed and carefully considered in the project design.

Project Number: 34341-013
Project Name: Forests for Livelihood Improvement in the Central Highlands Sector Project
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Project benefits, particularly those that are supposed to address poverty concerns, should be explicitly identified and quantified at the project preparatory stage.

Project Number: 39175-013
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion Kunming–Hai Phong Transport Corridor: Yen Vien–Lao Cai Railway Upgrading Project
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When preparing a project for Board approval, ADB should have a thorough knowledge of government procedures for approvals needed to begin project implementation. In the case of this project, ADB should have delayed Board approval until government approval was obtained.

Project Number: 39175-013
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion Kunming–Hai Phong Transport Corridor: Yen Vien–Lao Cai Railway Upgrading Project
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A need to define more realistic indicators that consider government commitment and capacity to undertake reforms and a timetable to achieve intended results and causal linkages between intended outcome and impact, with expected results having appropriate linkages with policy actions. Most of MPRMP’s policy actions were complied with but many of the outcome and output indicators and targets were not realized. The indicators/targets for development impact were achieved although the outcome and outputs were not met.

Project Number: 41607-013
Project Name: Mizoram Public Resource Management Program
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A more proper design of the TA component and a firm-based consultancy recommended at appraisal along with a more realistic budget. DOF and SGD should have strengthened their procurement capacity prior to the TA loan and this could have been a condition for the release of the tranche 1 funds given that it was their first large ADB-fund project. Although this was recognized, it was thought that such a risk could have been mitigated through the capacity building provided under the TA loan.

Project Number: 41607-013
Project Name: Mizoram Public Resource Management Program
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