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As the first mountain-traversing expressway in Sichuan Province, the project expressway crossed geo-technically difficult and complicated terrain. To cope with various technical difficulties and challenges, Sichuan Provincial Transportation Department (SPTD) and SPECL initiated 14 technical studies associated with the project expressway's construction. Of the 14 studies, two were awarded state patents and eight were acknowledged as achievements at the provincial and ministry level.

Project Number: 32334-013
Project Name: Southern Sichuan Roads Development Project
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Socially responsible budget. Rapid disbursements into a budget that is socially responsible and sound in macroeconomic terms provide an efficient channel for supporting sustainable and inclusive public spending, including social sector financing.

Project Number: 43496-013
Project Name: Social Services Delivery Program
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Loan size determination. The projected budgetary financing requirement provides the rational for determining the loan size for budget support attached to a policy reform agenda, and it rests on unfunded fiscal �adjustment� costs of reform, including both recurrent and capital expenditures.

Project Number: 43496-013
Project Name: Social Services Delivery Program
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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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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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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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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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No new lessons

Project Number: 34476-013
Project Name: Gansu Clean Energy Development Project [Loan 2032-PRC]
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Need for adequate advisory services to help prepare required legal and regulatory changes to speed up program implementation. The program also shows the benefits of integrated approaches to microfinance development support that promote capacity development of MFIs in conjunction with necessary reforms in the underlying policy environment.

Project Number: 33040-013, 33040-023
Project Name: Microfinance Systems Development Program [Loan 2000-2001-TAJ]
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ADB's business procedures for processing crisis response programs should be streamlined and abbreviated, as in the case of the Countercyclical Support Facility (CSF). This allows for crisis responses to be timely and prevent further deterioration of the economy.

Project Number: 43300-013
Project Name: Countercyclical Support Loan
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By not having any policy conditions other than the government's countercyclical expenditure programs, the Kazakhstan Countercyclical Support Loan (KCSL) was an effective and efficient instrument to respond to the financial crisis. While reforms to correct policy inconsistencies during crisis situations might be desirable, countries that are in the middle of financial crises would find it difficult to simultaneously undertake both crisis mitigation and reforms.

Project Number: 43300-013
Project Name: Countercyclical Support Loan
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The success of a financial crisis response is highly contingent on the government's ability to quickly put together its own anti-crisis plan. ADB intervention can be in the form of financing for the anti-crisis plan. In the case of the KCSL, the government already had its employment-generation program (EGP) in place, and was able to use the KCSL funds immediately to finance the EGP. However, since the KCSL is a budget support instrument, it is difficult to track and link the financing with specific development results (e.g., which public works project it funded).

Project Number: 43300-013
Project Name: Countercyclical Support Loan
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Crisis response operations can be more successful if the government has well- defined implementation arrangements and monitoring mechanisms to be successful, as was the case with the KCSL.

Project Number: 43300-013
Project Name: Countercyclical Support Loan
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The technical assistance (TA) for preparing the project was inadequate. Project preparatory TA was designed and implemented similarly for all countries in terms of budget, scope, and expertise. However, Tajikistan needs more technical support from ADB, especially in engineering aspects. Due to inadequate engineering survey and design, as well as little involvement of government officials, numerous changes in quantity and methodology were required during implementation.

Project Number: 34569-013
Project Name: Dushanbe-Kyrgyz Border Road Rehabilitation Project (Phase 1)
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The project was the second ADB-financed road project in Tajikistan. Therefore, the Ministry of Transport and Communication (MOTC) and project implementation unit (PIU) need to be familiarized with ADB's policies and procedures. However, the familiarization effort was inadequate. ADB should continue to train MOTC on its policies and procedures and PIU staff for existing and future projects. In addition, frequent changes in ADB project officers caused discontinuity in project administration.

Project Number: 34569-013
Project Name: Dushanbe-Kyrgyz Border Road Rehabilitation Project (Phase 1)
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