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For sector loan projects where several past related interventions and investments were provided, building on progress achieved from them and duly taking account of relevant recommendations can optimize project design and fasttrack project implementation towards efficient fund utilization and satisfactory delivery of project outputs. In the case of this project, its design capitalized on the capacity of the implementing agencies strengthened through previous ADB projects and the flexibility of a sector loan to incentivize them to perform and compete for securing the investment funds.

Project Number: 39298-013
Project Name: City Region Development Project
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Giving equal importance to the institutional and capacity support and infrastructure investments under a sector loan strengthens commitment, ownership, and accountability of the executing agency. The implementation of infrastructure component of the project, coupled with timely technical support and capacity building, is pivotal to ensuring project readiness and implementation progress in a highly challenging context.

Project Number: 39298-013
Project Name: City Region Development Project
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A holistic and in-depth assessment of project context and adequate stakeholder consultations are important to ensure project readiness in identification of candidate subprojects and to avoid unnecessary changes leading to delays. For example, change of the location for the solid waste management subproject due to unavailability of land in the originally proposed location.

Project Number: 39298-013
Project Name: City Region Development Project
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Simpler and more tightly knit implementation arrangements will make project execution and coordination easier to undertake.

Project Number: 39298-013
Project Name: City Region Development Project
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Changes in scope present opportunities for enhancing the project design and monitoring frameworks (DMFs) and making them more effective in improving project performance.

Project Number: 39298-013
Project Name: City Region Development Project
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Robust technical due diligence and thorough feasibility studies will help minimize the need for scope changes, reallocations, and loan extensions.

Project Number: 39298-013
Project Name: City Region Development Project
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Municipal–level capacity development and performance monitoring are essential to making the city region work in improving municipal governance and infrastructure.

Project Number: 39298-013
Project Name: City Region Development Project
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An integrated solid waste management (SWM) facility can have a transformative effect on community-level SWM.

Project Number: 39298-013
Project Name: City Region Development Project
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Loan savings should be identified early in the project and applied to activities that promote project outcomes.

Project Number: 36437-013
Project Name: Integrated Ecosystem and Water Resources Management in the Baiyangdian Basin Project
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It is important to ensure that all projects have appropriate monitoring processes in place—early in the project period and before construction commences.

Project Number: 36437-013
Project Name: Integrated Ecosystem and Water Resources Management in the Baiyangdian Basin Project
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The integration of wastewater treatment, water supply, and environment improvement can be a valuable approach in appropriate locations.

Project Number: 36437-013
Project Name: Integrated Ecosystem and Water Resources Management in the Baiyangdian Basin Project
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Government commitment to and ownership of projects are crucial to implementation success.

Project Number: 36437-013
Project Name: Integrated Ecosystem and Water Resources Management in the Baiyangdian Basin
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Water pollution targets have to be informed by the complex issues surrounding the levels of pollution assessed at project appraisal.

Project Number: 36437-013
Project Name: Integrated Ecosystem and Water Resources Management in the Baiyangdian Basin
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The capacity and experience of implementing agencies (IAs) need to match the requirements of projects.

Project Number: 36437-013
Project Name: Integrated Ecosystem and Water Resources Management in the Baiyangdian Basin
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Compliance to domestic procedures is vital to the smooth implementation of externally funded projects in the People’s Republic of China (PRC).

Project Number: 36437-013
Project Name: Integrated Ecosystem and Water Resources Management in the Baiyangdian Basin
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