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Greater effort early on to define targeted outcomes and using a well-structured framework can yield a better tool to assess program results. The results framework presenting clarity in project design, well-defined outcomes, and outputs with appropriate targets and indicators, is imperative in monitoring project achievements. This is necessary to help provide clear assessment and guidance on how to systematically track progress especially on how success will be assessed.

Project Number: 48458-001, 48458-003
Project Name: Expanding Private Participation in Infrastructure Program
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To ensure the formulation of a well-grounded design, a thorough preparatory assessment could be undertaken by including the political environment and the risk of corruption in a country. In cases where corruption is perceived as being high, support for better performance and greater accountability in public financial management systems plays a crucial role.

Project Number: 48458-001, 48458-003
Project Name: Expanding Private Participation in Infrastructure Program
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Public-private partnership (PPP) efforts would have more far-reaching success if supported by an enabling legal framework.

Project Number: 48458-001, 48458-003
Project Name: Expanding Private Participation in Infrastructure Program
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A programmatic approach is essential in addressing deep and technically challenging structural reforms.

Project Number: 48458-001, 48458-003
Project Name: Expanding Private Participation in Infrastructure Program
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PPP projects need to address the particular issues and concerns of clients.

Project Number: 48458-001, 48458-003
Project Name: Expanding Private Participation in Infrastructure Program
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It is essential for PPP institutions to maintain their independence from the political process to ensure continuing confidence in their decisions and operations.

Project Number: 48458-001, 48458-003
Project Name: Expanding Private Participation in Infrastructure 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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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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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 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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