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Lesson
Developing the institutional capacity of key project agencies will enhance the sustainability of project outcomes and benefits. The project designed and implemented a comprehensive capacity building component that strengthened the institutional capacity of the executing agency (EA), the Jiuquan municipal government (JMG) in forming strategies for water conservation, resources reuse, traffic management and traffic safety improvement, and desertification risk management. This enhanced the project’s sustainability.

Project Number: 45506-002
Project Name: Gansu Jiuquan Integrated Urban Environment Improvement Project
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A well-defined implementation arrangement, backed by strong leadership and commitment, and highly competent project staff are crucial to project success. The project’s implementation arrangement was well laid out and all relevant entities fulfilled their responsibilities throughout the project. A project management office (PMO) was set up while the project was still being conceptualized, engaging staff with a high degree of competence and professional knowledge. The PMO director stayed with the project from beginning to end, ensuring strong and efficient support and coordination.

Project Number: 45506-002
Project Name: Gansu Jiuquan Integrated Urban Environment Improvement Project
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Advance action and procurement readiness are key to the timely startup and implementation of projects. No major issues or problems were identified in procurement planning, processing, and contract management. Good procurement readiness was achieved, with advance procurement realized for one international competitive bidding civil works contract and one consulting firm contract. Actual contract awards in 2013–2015 were about 62% of the total loan amount, which was above the projected 25%.

Project Number: 45506-002
Project Name: Gansu Jiuquan Integrated Urban Environment Improvement Project
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Projects should provide room for any kind of response from affected people, businesses, and other entities. The risk of delayed LAR was envisaged at project preparation, and mitigation measures were developed and implemented. Still, unexpected requests or demands were raised by project-affected people and businesses, leading to 51 complaints filed on issues such as compensation standards, physical quantity of demolition, and compensation amount.

Project Number: 45506-002
Project Name: Gansu Jiuquan Integrated Urban Environment Improvement Project
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As experienced in all past ADB-financed emergency assistance projects in Bangladesh, delegation of authority to ADB's resident mission in the borrower's country is essential for effective monitoring and immediate decision making.

Project Number: 41657-013
Project Name: Emergency Disaster Damage Rehabilitation (Sector) Project
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Experience from the project demonstrated that the adoption of simplified approval procedures for procurement and other project activities is effective and enabled timely implementation of the project, and catalyzes early restoration of people's livelihood in the project-affected areas.

Project Number: 41657-013
Project Name: Emergency Disaster Damage Rehabilitation (Sector) Project
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In Bangladesh, the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) and Roads and Highways Department (RHD) are still the two agencies that are reasonably capable of implementing ADB-assisted emergency projects. Implementation experience suggests that emergency assistance projects generally require adequate program for capacity building in the executing agencies, with strong institutional support regarding contract administration and fostering familiarity with ADB procedures for procurement and disbursement.

Project Number: 41657-013
Project Name: Emergency Disaster Damage Rehabilitation (Sector) Project
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For complex multisector projects, monitoring of implementation through a central project steering committee (PSC) at a plenary ministry of the borrower is indispensable. Regular interaction between the borrower and ADB through the PSC contributed greatly to the success of the project. The use of a sector approach proved highly beneficial in identifying eligible subprojects spread over a wide geographical area, and enabled reallocation of loan funds from one component/sector to another based on a final needs assessment and performance.

Project Number: 41657-013
Project Name: Emergency Disaster Damage Rehabilitation (Sector) Project
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