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Lesson
It is important to take stock of and learn from other development partners’ experience and learnings in similar projects as they can share valuable lessons to inform project design. A failure to account for previous projects’ lessons can have significant costs in project effectiveness

Project Number: 45098-001
Project Name: Project Preparation and Start-Up Support Facility
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Weak indicators for outcomes and outputs hamper the tracking of project successes. If the project’s indicators had been more specific, measurable, and/or evaluable, problems could have been identified earlier and possibly addressed. This would have likely allowed for mid-course corrections or modifications.

Project Number: 45098-001
Project Name: Project Preparation and Start-Up Support Facility
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Protracted bidding can compromise the implementation of projects. One of the major issues encountered by this project was the protracted bidding process undertaken by the executing agency (EA). The bidding process for the civil works and construction supervision contracts took more than 1 year to complete because of the EA’s unfamiliarity with the updated ADB guidelines. It added to an initial delay of more than 1 year because of changes in the road design, which required updating the design, feasibility study, and tender documents.

Project Number: 50063-001
Project Name: Kashkadarya Regional Road Project
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Careful consideration of typically applied engineering solutions and examination of project readiness with the use of an agreed upon checklist will help mitigate implementation risks and synchronize startup and financial activities. Engineering solutions that are typically considered could have been looked into during project appraisal, as any changes introduced after loan approval will impact the project cost and implementation period.

Project Number: 50063-001
Project Name: Kashkadarya Regional Road Project
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Greater familiarization with ADB’s guidelines on the conduct of project-level economic and financial analyses helps facilitate assessments of a project’s economic viability and financial profitability.

Project Number: 44058-013
Project Name: Kathmandu Sustainable Urban Transport Project
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A well-established project performance management system, covering the initial phase of project implementation up to post completion, allows a more systematic collection of baseline, implementation, and post-completion data and information that facilitates a more robust analyses of a project’s outcome and impacts.

Project Number: 44058-013
Project Name: Kathmandu Sustainable Urban Transport Project
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It is important for succeeding tranche loans to have clear provisions of clear conditionality in the program design and lending agreements.

Project Number: 37220-013, 37220-023, 37220-033
Project Name: Sindh Cities Improvement Investment Program (Tranche 2 and the Multitranche Financing Facility)
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Get the institutional framework right before scaling up.

Project Number: 37220-013, 37220-023, 37220-033
Project Name: Sindh Cities Improvement Investment Program (Tranche 2 and the Multitranche Financing Facility)
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A comprehensive strategy to address traffic congestion, reduce air pollution from vehicles, and improve walkability is needed to meet the urban transport and livability challenges in the Kathmandu Valley.

Project Number: 44058-013
Project Name: Kathmandu Sustainable Urban Transport Project
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Besides clearly stipulating ADB and country safeguards requirements, the protocols for corrective action in case of breach or noncompliance to such requirements need to be included in civil works contracts.

Project Number: 44058-013
Project Name: Kathmandu Sustainable Urban Transport Project
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Proper baseline data need to be established prior to the start of projects.

Project Number: 44058-013
Project Name: Kathmandu Sustainable Urban Transport Project
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Urban transport planning needs to be based on reliable and robust transport demand projections.

Project Number: 44058-013
Project Name: Kathmandu Sustainable Urban Transport Project
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Robust due diligence in consultant and contractor selection is essential to ensuring smooth and successful project implementation.

Project Number: 44058-013
Project Name: Kathmandu Sustainable Urban Transport Project
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Project implementation arrangements need to be based on a thorough assessment of the capacity of all relevant agencies and accordingly adjusted during implementation.

Project Number: 44058-013
Project Name: Kathmandu Sustainable Urban Transport Project
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Consultation with service agencies during project design stage is best, as their hands-on experience and knowledge of the sector would enhance project availability and allow them to align with the proposed project.

Project Number: 40054-013
Project Name: South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation Information Highway
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