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Weak entrepreneurial skills, lack of financial literacy, and lack of viable projects affect the bankability of potential microfinance clients. Business development skills training primarily aimed at capacity development, skills transfer, financial literacy, and business advice help in enhancing the bankability of clients as well performance and viability of their businesses.

Project Number: 44304-013
Project Name: Microfinance Expansion Project
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An adequate assessment of institutional implementation capacity during project preparation enables identification of suitable expertise and skills set needed to facilitate project implementation. In country context where there is weak implementation capacity, complex designs with multiple components require experienced experts to enable better quality of project implementation. For example, in selecting the consultant-specialists, rigorous vetting and screening process helps in ensuring that the selected consultant is the most qualified expert for the required technical expertise.

Project Number: 44304-013
Project Name: Microfinance Expansion Project
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A dedicated, full-time monitoring and evaluation (M&E) staff or consultant is necessary for timely and reliable project performance monitoring and reporting.

Project Number: 44304-013, 44304-014, 44304-015
Project Name: Microfinance Expansion Project
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Staff perception of comparatively lower salaries could erode their morale and lead to frequent turnover.

Project Number: 44304-013, 44304-014, 44304-015
Project Name: Microfinance Expansion Project
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All expenditures allocated to a single cost category should be allocated to a single cost center.

Project Number: 44304-013, 44304-014, 44304-015
Project Name: Microfinance Expansion Project
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A single database, accessible to all project staff, will make monitoring and reporting easier and project decision-making more reliable and consistent.

Project Number: 44304-013, 44304-014, 44304-015
Project Name: Microfinance Expansion Project
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Project targets need to be carefully determined and adjusted as necessary to ensure that they are realistic and achievable.

Project Number: 44304-013, 44304-014, 44304-015
Project Name: Microfinance Expansion Project
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Significant implementation support is required for ADB-financed projects in PNG.

Project Number: 44304-013, 44304-014, 44304-015
Project Name: Microfinance Expansion Project
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Inclusion of gender targets in policy actions and DMF ensures the delivery of gender actions benefiting women.

Project Number: 41544-088, 41544-089, 41544-091
Project Name: Second Investment Climate Improvement Program (Subprograms 1–3)
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Reforms on tax burden and administration should be broad enough to significantly reduce the cost of tax compliance and eventually the size of the informal economy.

Project Number: 41544-088, 41544-089, 41544-091
Project Name: Second Investment Climate Improvement Program (Subprograms 1–3)
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For programs which focus on gender equity, identifying and ensuring that institutions supporting gender are onboard throughout program development and implementation is crucial.

Project Number: 45230-001
Project Name: Women’s Entrepreneurship Support Sector Development Program
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Strong analytical work supported with sex-disaggregated data is necessary to back-up and sustain the commitments of the government to prioritize interventions directly targeting women.

Project Number: 45230-001
Project Name: Women’s Entrepreneurship Support Sector Development Program
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A clearer link between the DMF, policy actions, and the GAP is necessary.

Project Number: 45230-001
Project Name: Women’s Entrepreneurship Support Sector Development Program
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For a program directly targeting women, GAP targets be integrated more into the program design and included in the DMF.

Project Number: 45230-001
Project Name: Women’s Entrepreneurship Support Sector Development Program
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The collection of sex-disaggregated data is a key feature of programs that support women and the policy-based loan funds could have been used as leverage to create such database.

Project Number: 45230-001
Project Name: Women’s Entrepreneurship Support Sector Development Program
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