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In Bangladesh, the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) and Roads and Highways Department (RHD) are still the two agencies that are reasonably capable of implementing ADB-assisted emergency projects. Implementation experience suggests that emergency assistance projects generally require adequate program for capacity building in the executing agencies, with strong institutional support regarding contract administration and fostering familiarity with ADB procedures for procurement and disbursement.

Project Number: 41657-013
Project Name: Emergency Disaster Damage Rehabilitation (Sector) Project
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For complex multisector projects, monitoring of implementation through a central project steering committee (PSC) at a plenary ministry of the borrower is indispensable. Regular interaction between the borrower and ADB through the PSC contributed greatly to the success of the project. The use of a sector approach proved highly beneficial in identifying eligible subprojects spread over a wide geographical area, and enabled reallocation of loan funds from one component/sector to another based on a final needs assessment and performance.

Project Number: 41657-013
Project Name: Emergency Disaster Damage Rehabilitation (Sector) Project
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Experience from the project demonstrated that the adoption of simplified approval procedures for procurement and other project activities is effective and enabled timely implementation of the project, and catalyzes early restoration of people's livelihood in the project-affected areas.

Project Number: 41657-013
Project Name: Emergency Disaster Damage Rehabilitation (Sector) Project
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As experienced in all past ADB-financed emergency assistance projects in Bangladesh, delegation of authority to ADB's resident mission in the borrower's country is essential for effective monitoring and immediate decision making.

Project Number: 41657-013
Project Name: Emergency Disaster Damage Rehabilitation (Sector) Project
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No new lessons

Project Number: 39118-013
Project Name: Cyclone Emergency Assistance Project [Loan 2174-COO]
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Monitoring and evaluation framework. The overall success of the EAPCR could have been greater had the DMF been better designed. The impact statement could have been closer to the outcome, and assumptions about investor and consumer confidence should have been more realistic. The impact statement could have focused on maintaining sustainable and inclusive public sector spending rather than to restore the Georgian economy to the pre-war trajectory of growth and social development.

Project Number: 42477-013
Project Name: Emergency Assistance for Post-Conflict Recovery
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By not having any policy conditions other than the government's countercyclical expenditure programs, the Kazakhstan Countercyclical Support Loan (KCSL) was an effective and efficient instrument to respond to the financial crisis. While reforms to correct policy inconsistencies during crisis situations might be desirable, countries that are in the middle of financial crises would find it difficult to simultaneously undertake both crisis mitigation and reforms.

Project Number: 43300-013
Project Name: Countercyclical Support Loan
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Broad consultation, awareness raising, and development of skills of key state stakeholders during loan preparation would have enhanced program implementation and possibly reduced the delays in achieving loan effectiveness.

Project Number: 31382-012
Project Name: Private Sector Development Program
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ADB s Countercyclical Support Facility has been instrumental in supporting countries receiving loans financed out of ordinary capital resources. However, at present, ADB has no modality for a financial crisis response operation for Asian Development Fund eligible countries. The special program loan in the Program Lending Policy is limited to ordinary capital resources countries and can only used to address balance of payment crises. 21 Likewise, emergency assistance under the Disaster and Emergency Assistance Policy (DEAP) does not include financial crisis response.

Project Number: 43087-013, 43087-023
Project Name: Crisis Recovery Support Program
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Te SSSDP failed to explicitly address a fundamental weakness in the social welfare system: the systematic exclusion of unregistered households. Efforts to overcome this flaw need to be accelerated.

Project Number: 33335-013, 33335-023
Project Name: Social Security Sector Development Program
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ADB has no modality for a financial crisis response operation for Asian Development Fund countries. The special program loan in the Program Lending Policy is limited to ordinary capital resources countries and can only used to address balance of payment crises. Likewise, emergency assistance under the Disaster and Emergency Assistance Policy (DEAP) does not include financial crisis response. As such, the program had to use the standard program grant modality and develop the design of program actions to allow quick processing and disbursement.

Project Number: 43098-012
Project Name: Crisis Recovery Support Program
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Improving the impact of business incubation centers. The impact of the centers could be furthered by (i) providing start-up loans and performance-based support, (ii) providing better outreach to remote areas, and (iii) developing business incubation center packages that better target the livestock development needs of herders.

Project Number: 33335-013, 33335-023
Project Name: Social Security Sector Development Program
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Lending Modality: Having an appropriate modality is critical. ADB's Disaster and Emergency Assistance Policy together with Achieving Development Effectiveness in Weakly Performing Countries provided a ready framework for Emergency Assistance for Post-Conflict Recovery (EAPCR).

Project Number: 42477-013
Project Name: Emergency Assistance for Post-Conflict Recovery
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ADB's business procedures for processing crisis response programs should be streamlined and abbreviated, as in the case of the Countercyclical Support Facility (CSF). This allows for crisis responses to be timely and prevent further deterioration of the economy.

Project Number: 43300-013
Project Name: Countercyclical Support Loan
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Updating the social security sector strategy paper. The Social Security Sector Strategy Paper (SSSSP) was a major milestone and the document is still a valuable guide for the sector. There is a need to update it, and this should be a priority once key decisions have been made regarding the proposed consolidation and targeting of benefits.

Project Number: 33335-013, 33335-023
Project Name: Social Security Sector Development Program
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