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Lesson
Alignment with government priorities favors the successful implementation of reform programs.

Project Number: 41373-012, 41373-013
Project Name: Public Financial Management for Rural Development Program
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Lesson
Risks of combining emergency assistance projects with the more standard assistance packages. Providing fiscal resources was clearly urgent to ensure uninterrupted service and to reconstruct houses after the political disturbances. However, providing funds for undamaged but old water supply and sanitation systems was not as urgent and should have been completed as a separate project.

Project Number: 44236-013
Project Name: Emergency Assistance for Recovery and Reconstruction
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Lesson
Using performance indicators to assess project performance. Performance indicators (in addition to financial disbursements) should be reported throughout implementation to determine whether the project is on track to meet its intended outputs and outcomes.

Project Number: 44236-013
Project Name: Emergency Assistance for Recovery and Reconstruction
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Lesson
Communication between ADB and the government needs to be strengthened. Despite fielding 13 missions, ADB failed to learn of the government’s efforts to undertake component 3B, indicating a possible lack of communication, which needs to be improved.

Project Number: 44236-013
Project Name: Emergency Assistance for Recovery and Reconstruction
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Lesson
No additional lessons

Project Number: 46384-001
Project Name: Public Sector Financial Management Program
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Lesson
The construction of an infiltration gallery for a major urban water supply source is not feasible under an emergency assistance project.

Project Number: 44236-013
Project Name: Emergency Assistance for Recovery and Reconstruction
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Lesson
Alignment of performance indicators with existing government data and statistical systems enables a thorough assessment of project progress and accomplishments.

Project Number: 44236-013
Project Name: Emergency Assistance for Recovery and Reconstruction
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Lesson
A simplified process facilitates procurement.

Project Number: 44236-013
Project Name: Emergency Assistance for Recovery and Reconstruction
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No new lessons.

Project Number: 41657-013
Project Name: Emergency Disaster Damage Rehabilitation (Sector) Project
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Lesson
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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Lesson
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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Lesson
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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Lesson
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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