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Lesson
Good due diligence at appraisal is important to prepare a realistic project costing and schedule, particularly paying attention to the institutional setup, internal review and approval procedures, existing capacity, and prior experience of the government and executing agency in implementing ADB’s and other development partners' projects

Project Number: 43151-023
Project Name: Talimarjan Power Project
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Helping island economies strengthen management systems (such as the FMIS), developing realistic infrastructure strategies, incorporating sound governance concepts in legislation, and supporting regulations can assist Pacific DMCs, if these policy actions are accompanied by a TA to overcome human resource limitations and achieve sound economic management outcomes

Project Number: 52073-001
Project Name: Improving Public Investment Management Program
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Long-term partnerships between government and key development partners are essential for supporting macroeconomic management Pacific small island economies. Partnerships provide a framework for on-going policy dialogue and coordination of support, which facilitates the government’s role in macroeconomic management and provides a foundation to support sustainable development (program-level lesson)

Project Number: 52073-001
Project Name: Improving Public Investment Management Program
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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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Well-formulated baseline data and indicators at appraisal permit more effective monitoring of project performance and achievements. Such benchmark data will help in facilitating the results assessment and improve the PCR’s clarity with respect to the project’s achieved outputs.

Project Number: 43200-024
Project Name: Bridge Replacement for Improved Rural Access Sector Project
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Road maintenance funds could be prudently raised by exploring the wider use of road user charges, ringfencing revenues from road or fuel taxes, and/or by including provisions for maintenance in road reconstruction contracts. Incorporating a performance-based maintenance contract for road routine maintenance could improve the funding sustainability of road maintenance. This concept is useful in assisting agencies with low level of institutional and financial capacity to help preserve road assets’ maintenance and reduce the cost of future rehabilitation and reconstruction works.

Project Number: 43439-023, 43439-033, 43439-013
Project Name: CAREC Corridor 2 (Mangystau Oblast Section) Investment Program (Tranche 2 and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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Greater consideration on the road safety and maintenance during planning and design stage increases the benefits of a road project and enhances its sustainability over time. For instance, building the capacity of implementing agencies to better implement road safety action plans and programs contributes to enhancing road safety policies and facilitate a more effective road programs and safer road environment. Ensuring that road safety regulations and standards are well implemented is also crucial in strengthening the road quality management

Project Number: 43439-023, 43439-033, 43439-013
Project Name: CAREC Corridor 2 (Mangystau Oblast Section) Investment Program (Tranche 2 and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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Road projects can only be justified if a credible traffic forecast is prepared for the with-project and without-project scenarios. Project preparation should include robust traffic surveys and accurate traffic forecasts, based on the economic circumstances of the region in the project’s target area.

Project Number: 41193-015
Project Name: Western Regional Road Corridor Investment Program - Tranche 1
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A high degree of borrower’s commitment and accountability is crucial to project implementation and success. The capacity of the borrower and agencies to provide timely response and adequate support from start-up to completion are critical in overcoming implementation challenges. It is crucial that agencies help in ensuring timeliness and availability of sufficient support to reduce any unnecessary delays.

Project Number: 38560-022
Project Name: Second Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project
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The flexibility of EAL allows the design and monitoring framework (DMF) to be enhanced during implementation. This was not fully maximized in this project. Other than adding project outputs under the additional financing, outcome indicators remained to have attribution issues. Outcome indicators for improved transport infrastructures could have helped provide data to calculate EIRR at completion (para. 13). Quality review, including interdepartmental review at appraisal, can provide guidance in this regard.

Project Number: 49319-001
Project Name: Cyclone Pam Road Reconstruction Project
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The multitranche financing facility (MFF) modality allows flexibility in project selection and project management maintaining focus on reforms and performance. However, when there are potential political, governance, security, and integrity uncertainties, it would be more appropriate to use a stand-alone project loan with additional financing depending upon emerging needs. Simpler project designs, with specific purposes in a limited number of locations, are more likely to succeed than those with a broad scope and

Project Number: 42051-023
Project Name: Energy Efficiency Program
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Actions that demonstrate the achievement of program policy matrix milestones should indicate what has been achieved, rather than the process of their accomplishment. For example, Cabinet approval is an inadequate indicator to demonstrate a successful policy reform in Tonga.

Project Number: 48361-001, 48361-002, 48361-003
Project Name: Building Macroeconomic Resilience Program
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The absence of a project performance management system created difficulties in estimating the project’s economic benefits. A project performance management system would provide data on which to base more accurate EIRR estimates and the development impacts of road projects.

Project Number: 40075-023, 40075-033, 40075-043
Project Name: National Trade Corridor Highway Investment Program
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In designing a substantive and relevant PPPF to extend policy reform support, there is a need to ensure that the scope of the activities included therein reflect the full spectrum of the outcomes identified in the report and recommendation of the President of the program.

Project Number: 51129-002
Project Name: Human Development Enhancement Program
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For monitoring MFF, a well-designed DMF provides guidance for each tranche where deliverables with clear milestones can easily be cascaded to the envisioned tranches. Then, any implementation issue, requiring changes in scope, can be properly monitored and their impact to the overall delivery can be easily assessed.

Project Number: 41116-013, 41116-043
Project Name: Jammu and Kashmir Urban Sector Development Investment Program (Project 3 and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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