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Lesson
Financial management assessments undertaken at appraisal need to fully assess the potential for executing agencies to provide the level of funding proposed in the project financing plan to avoid cancelation of project activities that may negatively affect project viability and sustainability.

Project Number: 40043-013
Project Name: Regional Power Transmission Interconnection Project (Afghanistan and Tajikistan)
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The Afghanistan component of the project demonstrated that importing relatively inexpensive electricity from Tajikistan, and elsewhere if available, can result in enormous economic benefits to Afghanistan and financial benefits to Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (Afghanistan Power Utility). It would be prudent for the Government of Afghanistan and ADB to pursue further investments in the power sector to take advantage of surplus electricity in neighboring countries.

Project Number: 40043-013
Project Name: Regional Power Transmission Interconnection Project (Afghanistan and Tajikistan)
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Although the economic and financial benefits of the project were substantial for Afghanistan, they would have been greater if investment in distribution had been undertaken in a timely manner to take advantage of the capacity to import electricity through the project transmission line. The transmission line is currently used at less than full capacity - about 200 MW. It is possible to energize it to transmit up to 600 MW of electricity.

Project Number: 40043-013
Project Name: Regional Power Transmission Interconnection Project (Afghanistan and Tajikistan)
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Development projects can influence local people in work principles and have a significant benefit on local communities at little cost. Before the project, few people left their communities in search of jobs. Now most young people do, and over 30% of migrants are female.

Project Number: 39652-023
Project Name: Gansu Heihe Rural Hydropower Development Investment Program– Erlongshan Hydropower Project
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Strong government ownership is critical to the successful construction of the project and important to facilitate effective implementation and delivery of development results in ADB-financed projects. The Dagushan Hydropower Company (DHC) was consistently proactive and took initiative in solving problems, including the provision of design documents, timely delivery of equipment, approach to dealing with issues, and other areas. DHC's initiative guaranteed appropriate procedures and timely action for key tasks.

Project Number: 39652-033
Project Name: Gansu Heihe Rural Hydropower Development Investment Program - Project 2: Dagushan Hydropower Project
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Lesson
Specific loan covenant must be included and strictly enforced. This lesson pertains to the whole subject of loan covenants: they should be more strictly enforced. During ADB Board of Directors’ meeting on 18 March 1996, the Board expressed a similar opinion.

Project Number: XXXXX
Project Name: Kali Gandaki “A” Hydroelectric Project
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Involve the Nepal Resident Mission to a greater degree so that problems may be diffused sooner, rather than relying on ADB review missions to react to them later.

Project Number: XXXXX
Project Name: Kali Gandaki “A” Hydroelectric Project
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Delays occurred frequently in meeting conditions of loan effectiveness, recruiting consultants, and awarding contracts.

Project Number: XXXXX
Project Name: Kali Gandaki “A” Hydroelectric Project
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There is no doubt that selecting hydro versus thermal power in Nepal provided a least-cost intervention given the country’s topography and relatively high costs of alternative energy such as diesel and oil. At feasibility study time, alternatives to the adopted design were investigated but ultimately rejected and it now appears when factoring in energy production (actual versus planned), down time due to mechanical problems in the turbines, that including considerations of operational costs into decision making process may have changed the design of the plant.

Project Number: XXXXX
Project Name: Kali Gandaki “A” Hydroelectric Project
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Lesson
ADB should consider promoting complementary rural development initiatives in project-impacted areas with indicators of outcome derived from the impact assessment process. Agencies to be involved in implementing these initiatives should be preferably located at the district or village level. ADB should not rely on the “polluter pays” principle or on compliance mechanisms to implement its safeguards.

Project Number: XXXXX
Project Name: Kali Gandaki “A” Hydroelectric Project
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Consider projects with sufficient storage capacity to better address load shedding, which continues to affect economic growth and living standards. To consider such projects, greater knowledge of technical aspects, including geology, hydrology (including extreme events), and sedimentation, should be developed by financing agencies and/or developers.

Project Number: XXXXX
Project Name: Kali Gandaki “A” Hydroelectric Project
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Social development. The project has contributed to regional sustainable socioeconomic development, poverty reduction, and community development in the project area.

Project Number: 39652-023
Project Name: Gansu Heihe Rural Hydropower Development Investment Program: Erlongshan Hydropower Project
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Carbon revenue. The project was successfully registered as a clean development mechanism (CDM) project and was able to source significant amounts of revenue from the sale of carbon credits, thereby making it financially viable. This offers valuable lessons as a successful demonstration project for other clean energy developers in the region.

Project Number: 39652-023
Project Name: Gansu Heihe Rural Hydropower Development Investment Program: Erlongshan Hydropower Project
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Counterpart financing. The project funds comprised international funds and domestic funds. For smooth project implementation, the timely availability of counterpart funds is a key issue. For the project, the actual ADB financing was $22.0 million and the counterpart funds mobilized from stockholders and local banks was $35.9 million, all of which was provided in a timely manner that ensured smooth project implementation and early project commissioning.

Project Number: 39652-023
Project Name: Gansu Heihe Rural Hydropower Development Investment Program: Erlongshan Hydropower Project
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Procurement. Properly administered bidding processes were vital to obtaining cost- effective bid offers. Strict adherence to such processes, both in equipment procurement and onsite construction, facilitated savings on capital costs and ensured quality construction and equipment. The engagement of an experienced procurement agent proved to be a key factor in facilitating efficient procurement.

Project Number: 39652-023
Project Name: Gansu Heihe Rural Hydropower Development Investment Program: Erlongshan Hydropower Project
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