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Upgrading and retrofitting for energy efficiency improvements during the production process may result in mutual interactions and uncertain impacts, which can cause implementation delays and safety risks. These factors should be noted by future device-upgrading projects in factories; for example, factories should be equipped with more safety and environmental protection personnel, and enough time should be reserved for projects that include upgrading of production processes.

Project Number: 47051-002
Project Name: Chemical Industry Energy Efficiency and Emission Reduction Project
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Technology innovations need to be encouraged, but caution requires that innovations be verified during implementation. The verification may entail additional trials and time, which could lead to longer implementation periods.

Project Number: 47051-002
Project Name: Chemical Industry Energy Efficiency and Emission Reduction Project
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The design and monitoring framework needs to be updated to reflect realistic timelines when delays occur.

Project Number: 41627-023, 41627-033
Project Name: Himachal Pradesh Clean Energy Development Investment Program (Tranches 1 and 2)
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Land acquisition and government approval processes need to be assessed and factored into the design of projects to mitigate the risk of delays. In addition to institutional capacity, other matters such as the time required for land acquisition and processing of internal approvals need to be assessed during project preparation. Appropriate risk mitigation measures need to be in place. Undertaking these activities would have helped lessen the implementation delays encountered by this project to which delays in contract awarding and land acquisition were major contributing factors.

Project Number: 41626-013
Project Name: Bihar Power System Improvement Project
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ADB’s support in capacity building, resolving issues, and monitoring performance is crucial especially if the executing agency (EA) will be implementing an ADB project for the first time. Despite being the first ADB-financed project that they implemented, the Bihar State Power Holding Company Limited and the Bihar State Power Transmission Company Limited were able to successfully complete the project’s procurement requirements and deliver all its components in accordance with ADB guidelines and procedures.

Project Number: 41626-013
Project Name: Bihar Power System Improvement Project
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The participation of a financial management specialist in review missions and site visits will help improve capacity and ensure timely financial reporting. The project generally met ADB’s financial monitoring and reporting requirements. However, submission of the audited project financial statements was at times delayed. The delays could have been avoided by having a financial management specialist participate in project review missions and site visits. The measure could have also enhanced the capacity and awareness of ADB financial management procedures.

Project Number: 41626-013
Project Name: Bihar Power System Improvement Project
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Advance actions are important and effective in mitigating the risk of startup and implementation delays. As part of advance procurement, POWERGRID awarded the largest contract package under this project before loan effectiveness and the originally envisaged major contracts immediately after the loan became effective. It minimized land requirements by ensuring that the transmission lines mainly passed through government-owned land, wasteland, and agricultural and grazing lands and arranged for the timely issuance of forest clearances.

Project Number: 44426-014
Project Name: National Grid Improvement Project
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The participation of a financial management specialist in review missions and site visits will help improve capacity and compliance with statutory and financial covenants. The project generally met ADB’s financial monitoring and reporting requirements. But it encountered delays in the submission of the audited project financial statement for fiscal years 2016 and 2017. These delays could have been avoided by having a financial management specialist participate in project review missions and site visits.

Project Number: 44426-014
Project Name: National Grid Improvement Project
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New technologies can enhance safeguards. The adoption of new technologies such as metallic return conductors, gas-insulated substations, and high-voltage direct current transmission systems has minimized the project’s environmental and social impacts. Specifically, it has reduced the project’s land requirements, with completed infrastructure expected to contribute positively to the welfare of communities in the beneficiary states.

Project Number: 44426-014
Project Name: National Grid Improvement Project
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While the timely and effective utilization of project savings can improve outcomes, it would be best to ensure reliable cost estimates at appraisal to avoid complications and mitigate implementation risks. Cost savings during implementation prompted two requests from POWERGRID, the borrower and executing agency of this project, to use available loan funds through minor scope changes. This enhanced project results and final outcome, particularly as ADB and POWERGRID were able to swiftly meet the requirements and provide timely support for the implementation of the scope changes.

Project Number: 44426-014
Project Name: National Grid Improvement Project
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Programs such as this should take a holistic approach to measuring and abating air pollution. Although substantial progress has been made, longer-term policy measures to address the ongoing air quality issue in Mongolia are still needed The increased concentrations of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide show shortcomings in the program’s overall achievements, along with the concentrations of small particulate matter which remain above World Health Organization’s guidelines, necessitating more policy actions.

Project Number: 53028-001
Project Name: Ulaanbaatar Air Quality Improvement
Program and Ulaanbaatar Air Quality Improvement
Program – Phase 2
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Publication of air quality should be institutionalized to provide a feedback loop to policy makers and to empower the public to assess overall progress. ADB’s participation in the longer-term framework for air pollution abatement will reinforce the feedback and will be an instrument to provide additional assistance that will ensure the continued air pollution reduction in Ulaanbaatar and other urban areas in Mongolia.

Project Number: 53028-001
Project Name: Ulaanbaatar Air Quality Improvement
Program and Ulaanbaatar Air Quality Improvement
Program – Phase 2
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Extensive consultations during project design and implementation strengthen stakeholder ownership of and responsibility for projects in turn enhancing their prospective impact and potential for success. During processing and implementation, consultation meetings with stakeholders at various levels were held on the project’s design, construction, safeguards, job opportunities, and ethnic minority and social impacts.

Project Number: 46058-002
Project Name: Qinghai Delingha Concentrated Solar Thermal Power Project
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Climate change can negatively impact the performance of solar power plants and this needs to be considered in planning and implementing similar projects. In the past 3 years, due to climate change, the project encountered more cloudy and rainy days than estimated at project appraisal. This has caused less solar direct irradiation, negatively impacting electricity generation. This experience may be useful in planning and implementing future solar projects.

Project Number: 46058-002
Project Name: Qinghai Delingha Concentrated Solar Thermal Power Project
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MFF tranche projects, when implemented concurrently, will greatly benefit from close loop knowledge support and strategy enhancement activities. The first three projects of this MFF were undertaken concurrently. Under each tranche, project status and performance were carefully assessed. Lessons were captured and fed into the enhancement of operational strategies. The close loop learning process benefited each tranche as well as enhanced the overall value addition of the MFF.

Project Number: 41614-013, 41614-036
Project Name: Assam Power Sector Enhancement Investment Program - Tranche 4 and Multitranche Financing Facility
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