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The collection of data on project socioeconomic benefits allows better assessment of a project’s development results. Projects that establish project performance management systems are likely to assess the economic viability and development impacts of road projects more accurately.

Project Number: 40173-043
Project Name: Highlands Region Road Improvement Investment Program - Project 2
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Preparation of the design for operation and maintenance (O&M) at the outset facilitates the sustainability of the waste management facilities installed in protected areas and early handover to the community management teams. Consideration of these operational matters at the early stage of implementation could have mitigated the subsequent O&M issues for community waste management teams and toilet systems.

Project Number: 48216-001
Project Name: Integrated Livelihoods Improvement and Sustainable Tourism in Khuvsgul Lake National Park Project
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Urban transport projects typically involve a variety of risks during implementation and execution of activities. Formulating appropriate project design and risk assessment during preparatory phase is critical to minimize start-up and implementation delays. This includes a systematic appraisal of the project’s technical scope and engineering design, project cost and contingencies, environmental and social safeguards, and financial and contractual risks. The institutional setup, internal review

Project Number: 43032-013
Project Name: Xi'an Urban Road Network Improvement Project
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Exploring the possibility of developing other techniques and approaches in measuring the economic benefits of a WSS project helps to firm up its socioeconomic contribution. This could help better capture a project’s results. Although time savings are valid benefits, these may or may not be secondary to the health benefits

Project Number: 38560-022
Project Name: Second Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project
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The choice of a multifinancing facility (MFF)\ as the financing modality for a proposed investment needs to be adequately justified, with due consideration of the fulfillment of preconditions, scope of tranches, and the extent to which an MFF would generate potential value addition in terms of efficiency, portfolio performance, and development results as compared to standalone project-based loans.

Project Number: 37139-023
Project Name: Uttaranchal Power Sector Investment Program - Tranche 1
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A project associated with a larger or “parent” project needs a critical and in-depth assessment of its technical design and scope, and implementation timeline. This helps in ensuring that the target activities and outputs, along with its planned implementation period, could be delivered as expected.

Project Number: 45200-002
Project Name: Sustainable Urban Transport for Ho Chi Minh Mass Rapid Transit Line 2
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Close consultations with the executing agency and the implementing agency would minimize or ensure that there are no interministerial misunderstandings that could delay project implementation.

Project Number: 44507-002
Project Name: Public–Private Partnership Support Project
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The significant changes on the approved route on the BRT component at appraisal could have been avoided if significant resources to explain the BRT concept, issues, and challenges at the local context were provided during project preparation

Project Number: 44007-013
Project Name: Jiangxi Fuzhou Urban
Integrated Infrastructure Improvement Project
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For project areas where differences in language is considered a significant challenge, setting aside resources for translation andcommunication with the local government officials can mitigate misunderstanding during project preparation.

Project Number: 44007-013
Project Name: Jiangxi Fuzhou Urban
Integrated Infrastructure Improvement Project
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Leadership buy-in and management of the institution combined with teamwork among implementing agencies play a critical role in effective implementation and overall performance.

Project Number: 42099-013
Project Name: Polytechnic Education Development Project
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Effective and efficient implementation of large-scale land acquisition and resettlement activities depends largely on strong political will and commitment at all levels of government, especially when a large number of households are affected. It is important for an agency charged with resettlement activities to be proactive and work closely with local authorities and affected people to resolve identified issues on the ground. Having intensive policy dialogues with the agencies on ADB's safeguard policies and providing well-designed TA projects can

Project Number: 37269-013, 37269-023
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion:
Rehabilitation of the Railway in Cambodia Project
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The participation of relevant agencies, effective communication of their role, and broader consultations on possible implementation arrangements at project design ensure effective and efficient inter-agency coordination and project implementation. Under the project, instead of taking full responsibility as the IPIU, UPJN only deployed some staff to the IPIUs and was charging administrative fees for their role including remuneration of their staff that ADB had refused.

Project Number: 39405-013
Project Name: Dhaka Water Supply Sector
Development Program
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Gaining ownership from stakeholders and partners is paramount to the success of a project vis-à-vis its long-term sustainability, mitigating effectiveness risk bottlenecks, and avoiding otherwise foreseeable delays. The project had multiple benefits for stakeholders who were previously unserved by basic urban services. It improved urban environment indicators in municipalities and contributed to ADB’s 2030 operational strategies but was delayed nearly 2 years for various foreseeable technical

Project Number: 42161-013
Project Name: Integrated Urban Development Project
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The delays in this project showed that national and subnational governments must exert more effort to include a broad and diverse range of stakeholders from the initial project design to implementation for it to be successful. Further investigation or interviews may be necessary to ascertain where the lapses were in establishing fuller community support.

Project Number: 42161-013
Project Name: Integrated Urban Development Project
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It is critical to embed targeted and specified stakeholder risk analysis and risk mitigation measures into the planning of complex, community-driven, and local government-implemented infrastructure investments, especially for multi-dimensional and cross-sector urban development projects. One of the critical project lessons learned is that, although the project’s governance risk assessment and management plan foresaw the cost and time overrun owing to disbursement and

Project Number: 42161-013
Project Name: Integrated Urban Development Project
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