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Loans could be more preferrable to direct subsidies as these provide better value for money on public funds utilization point of view.

Project Number: 42022-013
Project Name: Jiangxi Sustainable Forest Ecosystem Development Project
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Special financial instruments in the forestry sector, with longer tenor and grace periods, could help improve the financial position of beneficiaries since investments take longer to generate revenue.

Project Number: 42022-013
Project Name: Jiangxi Sustainable Forest Ecosystem Development Project
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Including dedicated safeguards staff in the project core team is critical to avoid safeguards weaknesses in complying with the ADB’s safeguard policy, project design, and implementation.

Project Number: 40017-013
Project Name: Qingdao Water Resources and Wetland Protection Project
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Complex projects with integrated objectives, such as this project, would benefit from a dedicated mechanism of monitoring, evaluation, and learning; and instituting data collection for indicators directly linked with the targets.

Project Number: 40017-013
Project Name: Qingdao Water Resources and Wetland Protection Project
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Projects that address such complexities as fragmented approach to development have an opportunity and a huge potential to become models for similar activities in the country or region; therefore, they must explicitly build into the project design mechanisms for disseminating the experiences and lessons—both successful and otherwise.

Project Number: 40017-013
Project Name: Qingdao Water Resources and Wetland Protection Project
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Projects should take the opportunity during MTRs to review, assess data needs (especially in integrated projects), take feedback from all stakeholders (including project beneficiaries), and update the results framework (either way) by reassessing and strengthening indicators.

Project Number: 40017-013
Project Name: Qingdao Water Resources and Wetland Protection Project
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It is important to ensure that targets are realistic in their timing, achievable within the span of control of the project activities and can be directly attributed to project outcomes and outputs.

Project Number: 40017-013
Project Name: Qingdao Water Resources and Wetland Protection Project
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Timely safeguard interventions and impact assessment with implementation plans provide an immense value to the project design.

Project Number: 40017-013
Project Name: Qingdao Water Resources and Wetland Protection Project
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A methodological lesson is that, in multiphase projects, it is good to prepare cost tables by expenditure category (i.e., civil works) to learn how future projects need to plan their estimates.

Project Number: 38426-023, 30232-013
Project Name: Decentralized Rural Infrastructure and Livelihood Project
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A project needs to define road needs for a longer time frame and to construct roads to a suitable grade at the outset as it is more efficient and cost-effective than having to upgrade later.

Project Number: 38426-023, 30232-013
Project Name: Decentralized Rural Infrastructure and Livelihood Project
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ADB project departments and resident missions need to ensure that implementation issues are identified and corrected early on rather than waiting for the midterm review (MTR)

Project Number: 38426-023, 30232-013
Project Name: Decentralized Rural Infrastructure and Livelihood Project
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A phased approach to project design is useful if it is a complex, large project.

Project Number: 38426-023, 30232-013
Project Name: Decentralized Rural Infrastructure and Livelihood Project
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The geographical location of subprojects should be considered in project packaging. S

Project Number: 42012-013
Project Name: Chongqing Urban-Rural Infrastructure Development Demonstration Project
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Deviation from the project administration guidelines creates confusion about who is responsible for implementing the subprojects and what procurement guidelines to use; it also creates problems in monitoring project implementation.

Project Number: 42012-013
Project Name: Chongqing Urban-Rural Infrastructure Development Demonstration Project
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More frequent ADB review missions ( at least twice or more per year) are required to monitor and improve the implementation of subprojects, with the executing and implementing agencies required to understand and comply with implementation guidelines in the project administration manual.

Project Number: 42012-013
Project Name: Chongqing Urban-Rural Infrastructure Development Demonstration Project
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