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Project Number: 35068-013
Project Name: Gujarat Earthquake Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Project
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Advance procurement actions and decisiveness on the end of the Ceylon Electricity Board and ADB could have prevented procurement delays. The project completion report noted that the project was extended by 24 months to accommodate delays in procurement. [Main text, paras. 20, 71]

Project Number: 30207-013, 30207-023
Project Name: Power Sector Development Program
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Caution is in order in concurring with major changes in project scope. The scope for Part C of the project changed from initiating preparatory work for launching a training and management institute at the Rural Electrification Board - to physically constructing the institute. Its implementation though has suffered from price escalation, scarcity of construction materials, and internal disputes among partners in the contractor's consortium.

Project Number: 28025-013
Project Name: Dhaka Power System Upgrade Project
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A strong sector development program (policy and investment) entails a design that properly links and demarcates expected impacts, outcomes, and outputs. The Power Sector Development Program (PSDP) failed to coherently set out the objectives between its policy and investment components. Consequently, the lack of clarity between the two components in the PSDP framework contributed to the sector program's underperformance and poor design made it difficult to evaluate.

Project Number: 30207-013, 30207-023
Project Name: Power Sector Development Program
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ADB needs to pay more attention to capacity assessment during inception. The executing agencies had insufficient capacity to carry out procurement, bid evaluation and other processes, resulting in significant delays. This capacity deficit within the executing agencies was not identified during inception. [Main text, paras. 39,45,62]

Project Number: 28025-013
Project Name: Dhaka Power System Upgrade Project
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