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Planning for efficient resource use in advance adequately addresses the situation when the full output cannot be delivered

Project Number: 45506-002
Project Name: Gansu Jiuquan Integrated Urban Environment Improvement Project
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Timely resolution of involuntary resettlement and land acquisition issues helps avoid delays in project implementation. Oftentimes, land acquisition issues encountered by the executing agencies impede the timely implementation of procurement and civil works. Ensuring the safeguards’ requirements on land acquisition and resettlement, prior to execution of project activities, could mitigate these related project risks due, for example, to potential grievances of affected people and communities

Project Number: 45506-002
Project Name: Gansu Jiuquan Integrated Urban Environment Improvement Project
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Flexible implementation arrangements helps in enhancing a project’s relevance and results. In some cases, project relevance may change during implementation due to lower demand or unexpected government policy that subsequently may require a change in project scope and targets. This provides an opportunity to modify or correct the project design to strengthen its intended outcome at appraisal. For instance, the project was aimed to improve the carbon market development and preparedness for carbon market participation.

Project Number: 40684 013
Project Name: Forestry and Ecological Restoration Project in Three Northwest Provinces
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Support to improve the agencies’ institutional capacity involved in the preparatory work and implementation is necessary to ensure smooth execution of project activities and progress will remain on track. For example, project experience highlighted the required managerial support for agencies in view of the challenges encountered in implementing the social and environmental mitigation measures and related delays.

Project Number: 40684 013
Project Name: Forestry and Ecological Restoration Project in Three Northwest Provinces
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The importance of project preparation and quality at entry is of utmost importance for similar projects in the future. A better prepared project can reduce issues that may potentially impede implementation at the early stages of implementation.

Project Number: 39321-013
Project Name: Shaanxi Qinling Biodiversity Conservation and Demonstration Project
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The project experiences have illustrated the potential financial gains from improved environmental management and conservation. The project has demonstrated enhanced coordination in public finance allocation across institutions in charge of the environment and natural resources. Given the likelihood that such operations will grow in the region, the experience of this project will be valuable.

Project Number: 39321-013
Project Name: Shaanxi Qinling Biodiversity Conservation and Demonstration Project
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The review process and systematic monitoring of wetlands restoration project are imperative to deepen the benefits from environmental conservation and sustainable livelihood. A well developed monitoring and evaluation mechanism that would appropriately track the project status permits the timely implementation of project operation. Since project performance rating is one of the outputs of the monitoring and evaluation system, it periodically informs management on any potential risk in portfolio performance.

Project Number: 40685-013
Project Name: Jiangsu Yancheng Wetlands Protection Project
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Soliciting support and involving local stakeholders during project preparation ensures their greater ownership. It offers an opportunity to understand the local socioeconomic and ecological conditions surrounding the livelihoods and needs of the people. This creates effective solutions for biodiversity conservation and wetlands protection. Thus, the inclusion of natural resource users (e.g., farmers) is an essential step to ensuring that local knowledge is integrated into project planning and designing.

Project Number: 40685-013
Project Name: Jiangsu Yancheng Wetlands Protection Project
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Access to improved technology (e.g., seedlings, management practices); well-defined property rights; public pest and disease management; and access to forest products’ markets, could altogether help improve forest sector productivity and its attractiveness to investors.

Project Number: 42022-013
Project Name: Jiangxi Sustainable Forest Ecosystem Development Project
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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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Assessing changes in provinces without similar projects would allow a comparison of changes in forest areas and thus make clear judgments on the impact of the project.

Project Number: 34341-013
Project Name: Forests for Livelihood Improvement in the Central Highlands Sector Project
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For economic sector projects such as forestry, the undertaking of adequate economic assessment is important.

Project Number: 34341-013
Project Name: Forests for Livelihood Improvement in the Central Highlands Sector Project
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Where projects define new systems, it is desirable that full government agreement is negotiated during project design to ensure their ability to continue after project completion.

Project Number: 34341-013
Project Name: Forests for Livelihood Improvement in the Central Highlands Sector Project
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No new lessons

Project Number: 37596-013
Project Name: Guangxi Nanning Urban Environmental Upgrading Project
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