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Local economic development requires local governments to expand their service delivery to include the business community and identify opportunities to better serve the private sector.

Project Number: 44253-013
Project Name: Local Government Finance and Fiscal Decentralization Reform Program - Subprogram 1
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In designing the desired outputs that are linked to higher-level results, it is important to be consistent within particular operations and across operations that form the program.

Project Number: 36172-063
Project Name: Strengthening Public Management Program
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Strengthening PFM systems at subnational levels requires delineation of key institutional arrangements of the chosen federal system, careful selection of intervention, attention to connecting subnational PFM to the main PFM reform agenda, and productive engagement of key national agencies to reduce unhealthy competition in achieving reforms.

Project Number: 36172-063
Project Name: Strengthening Public Management Program
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Strengthening public financial management )PFM) in a country that is undertaking peace building and state restructuring is challenging; therefore, working toward a long-term horizon, in a flexible way, and with attention to sequencing and overall coherence, is essential.

Project Number: 36172-063
Project Name: Strengthening Public Management Program
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It is best to allocate available local resources and assistance, including loans based on sector priorities, through a participatory process involving all stakeholders and beneficiaries.

Project Number: 44065-013
Project Name: Conflict-Affected Region Emergency Project
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The number of projects and subprojects to be implemented under any assistance package must consider the absorptive capacity of local contractors, availability of construction materials, and local labor. Close attention must be given to the quality of the facilities and infrastructures built. Utilizing local contractors and labor have their trade-offs, such as implementation delays and deficiency in financial resources, but the quality of the completed facilities is nonnegotiable. This would require closer supervision, frequent monitoring, and faster processing of payments.

Project Number: 44065-013
Project Name: Conflict-Affected Region Emergency Project
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Target dates for performance indicators should be sufficiently set long after the likely date of disbursement or policy action. This is to identify a plausible causal relationship between investments and actions taken by the program and a change in the performance indicators. This was not the case in the performance indicators under output 1.

Project Number: 49083-001
Project Name: Countercyclical Support
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Project-level lesson: Assistance provided in response to a crisis should only include essential conditions for disbursement. ADB’s Project Administration Instructions stated that the use of conditions for withdrawal should be limited to the extent possible. In this program, four disparate conditions were included as conditions for disbursement without discussion or justification in the RRP.

Project Number: 49083-001
Project Name: Countercyclical Support
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Policy reforms, particularly on public financial management at the local level, take longer and require concerted efforts.

Project Number: 36172-063
Project Name: Strengthening Public Management Program
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Policy reforms cannot take place in isolation and need to be well coordinated and have strategic linkages both at the national and subnational level.

Project Number: 36172-063
Project Name: Strengthening Public Management Program
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Implementing governance reforms from a strategic perspective galvanizes support for Asian Development Bank (ADB) reform initiatives in developing member countries.

Project Number: 36172-063
Project Name: Strengthening Public Management Program
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Improving accountability requires a holistic approach.

Project Number: 36172-063
Project Name: Strengthening Public Management Program
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Information technology (IT) can be used to standardize and enhance the quality and accessibility of service delivery.

Project Number: 36172-063
Project Name: Strengthening Public Management Program
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Reforms have to be carefully sequenced by first setting the prerequisites right, followed by focused and gradual implementation that considers the varying speed of absorption at different tiers of the government.

Project Number: 36172-063
Project Name: Strengthening Public Management Program
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Adequate macroeconomic analysis and policy dialogue are essential to the sound formulation and quick mobilization of stakeholder support for an emergency economic response package under ADB's Countercylical Support Facility (CSF).

Project Number: 49083-001
Project Name: Countercyclical Support
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