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Lesson
The success of an emergency assistance loan can be better measured if the efficiency of the use of loan proceeds can be determined through the computation of an economic internal rate of return for investments, in this case, for the roads. This is to clearly ascertain the degree by which the benefits of the projects outweigh their costs.

Project Number: 49215-001
Project Name: Earthquake Emergency Assistance Project
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Appropriately designing the project performance monitoring system during design stage would ensure that it captures accurate and necessary baseline and monitoring data for better tracking and assessing project performance.

Project Number: 49215-001
Project Name: Earthquake Emergency Assistance Project
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The government’s commitment and ownership strengthen the project’s credibility. Providing timely response and adequate support from start-up to completion are critical in overcoming the implementation difficulties in various occasions. For instance, the PMO’s leadership could have helped ensurethat assistance was provided on time to implementing agencies. This, in turn, would help in easing delays in the procurement activities and implementation of subprojects.

Project Number: 42383-023
Project Name: Shanxi Small Cities and Towns Development Demonstration Sector Project
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A project’s medium-term review (MTR provides an opportunity to reassess and modify a project’s DMF, in terms of realistic performance targets, configuration of components and/or outputs, subprojects’ selection, and timeframe of implementation. Project team could strive to review all project’s aspects during an MTR in addition to focusing on project administration and changes in scope.

Project Number: 42383-023
Project Name: Shanxi Small Cities and Towns Development Demonstration Sector Project
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Effective structural reforms to improve education service delivery and strong and sustained commitment from the government or executing agencies and development partners are required to address the critical barriers to improving education quality in Bangladesh.

Project Number: 42122-013
Project Name: Third Primary Education Development Project
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Strong partnership between the government and development partners is essential and very effective in pursuing reforms.

Project Number: 42122-013
Project Name: Third Primary Education Development Project
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Well-conceived and structured TA associated with the program addressed the obstacles presented by system inefficiencies and limited capacity. Survey data and other forms of monitoring can be subject to local manipulation by incumbents and unintended beneficiaries. A related problem is rent-seeking in local agencies and the government can similarly distort monitored data, and misdirect public transfer payments and other benefits.

Project Number: 40003-013
Project Name: Poverty Reduction and Millennium Development Goals Acceleration Program
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The complication arose from the government’s decision, during SP2, to inject the other half of the anticipated policy output units into the subprogram, by extending it by another 5 months. This put considerable work and budget pressure on the project team. And that may have been a factor in the inability to fully achieve several output actions in time for this report.

Project Number: 40003-013
Project Name: Poverty Reduction and Millennium Development Goals Acceleration Program
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The interim restructuring of the program, at the request of the government, lowered the total program cost to the government. It also put greater emphasis on the program’s design features than on embedding the program deeper within public institutions. This may have been fiscally expedient but will have long-term costs that are hard to measure now. The government may have employed the program’s national consultants after it decided to fund SP2 and SP3, but ADB is unlikely to receive information on the results.

Project Number: 40003-013
Project Name: Poverty Reduction and Millennium Development Goals Acceleration Program
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Better coordination with Australian Aid was an explicit part of the PRMAP from the beginning. Adjustments to ADB’s country strategy and the design of follow-on programs may be better informed if there is sharing of information during and after each intervention.

Project Number: 40003-013
Project Name: Poverty Reduction and Millennium Development Goals Acceleration Program
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Importance of re-thinking the SWAP modality, that it is not treated simply as a modality for pooled financing for common objectives that are managed as a mega project.

Project Number: 30216-013
Project Name: Second Primary Education Development Program
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Effective utilization of existing institutions avoided start-up problems and delays. This enabled the concerned agencies to immediately trigger implementation activities without waiting for a project management office to be set up. This was attributed to ADB’s own experience in implementing the previous PNPM Mandiri project.

Project Number: 38385-013
Project Name: Rural Infrastructure Support to the PNPM Mandiri Project II
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Need for strong emphasis on establishing adequate O&M mechanisms to ensure sustainability of the built infrastructure. Lastly, more guidance is required from district administrations, consultants, and community facilitators to ensure that communities understand the importance of systematic maintenance.

Project Number: 38385-013
Project Name: Rural Infrastructure Support to the PNPM Mandiri Project II
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No new lessons

Project Number: 43127-012
Project Name: Education for the Poor—Financial Crisis Response Project
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Lesson
Targets and indicators in the DMF of program loans such as this need to be extremely conscious of exogenous factors. There is also a need for ADB program to assign focus areas for policy coordination and monitoring among ADB and other development partners so that respective contributions to policy dialogue under the different program components can be traced.

Project Number: 43191-023, 43191-013
Project Name: Economic Recovery Support Program— Subprograms 1 and 2
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