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A strong project management office with adequate assistance from the local government is essential to ensure sound administration and coordination of project Implementation, especially for projects covering several subsectors.

Project Number: 46062-002
Project Name: Gansu Baiyin Integrated Urban Development Project
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The success of ADB's comprehensive approach to urban transformation covering infrastructure, human resources, and environmentalCapacity development was highly appreciated by the counterpart municipal government, providing the basis for replication in other similar contexts.

Project Number: 46062-002
Project Name: Gansu Baiyin Integrated Urban Development Project
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Adequate and timely consulting support is needed for the design and Implementation of a technical and vocational education and training (TVET) that will aupport secondary and adult skills education and employment services to ensure inclusive industrial transformation. This is especially when the government or the implementing agency lacks experience and capacity.

Project Number: 46062-002
Project Name: Gansu Baiyin Integrated Urban Development Project
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Appropriate formulation of DMF facilitates accurate measurement of project performance and achievements. A clear alignment of data and logical framework on performance targets and indicators conforming to each subproject provides a correct measurement on project’s intended results and overall impact. All impact indicators were focused on Anning, but available data were for either Gansu province or Lanzhou, making it difficult to measure these indicators as required.

Project Number: 40625-013
Project Name: Lanzhou Sustainable Urban Transport Project
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The retention of implementing agency and staff until project completion enables timely and smooth implementation of project through continuous staff expertise support and institutional knowledge. If a change of implementing agency is necessary, transition needs to be during a non-critical project implementation period. In this project, the change in implementing agency happened during the critical period when land acquisition, resettlement negotiations, and relocations of underground oil pipeline.

Project Number: 40625-013
Project Name: Lanzhou Sustainable Urban Transport Project
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Complete project data is vital to the reliable evaluation of project impacts and outcomes.

Project Number: 40625-013
Project Name: Lanzhou Sustainable Urban Transport Project
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A successful demonstration project quickly gains replication momentum.

Project Number: 40625-013
Project Name: Lanzhou Sustainable Urban Transport Project
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It is important for ADB to ensure that eligible projects benefit from the CDM hence the need for it to proactively intervene when needed.

Project Number: 40625-013
Project Name: Lanzhou Sustainable Urban Transport Project
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Close coordination between subprojects needs to be ensured to enhance project synergy and benefits.

Project Number: 40625-013
Project Name: Lanzhou Sustainable Urban Transport Project
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The government should do proactive or advanced land acquisition as early as possible in the project cycle, and where feasible, before loan effectiveness to help minimize project delays.

Project Number: 32300-013
Project Name: Kerala Sustainable Urban Development Project
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Consultant inputs can be essential in supporting government agencies in implementing projects covering a large area with multiple components.

Project Number: 32300-013
Project Name: Kerala Sustainable Urban Development Project
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Intensified handholding can lead to more efficient implementation.

Project Number: 32300-013
Project Name: Kerala Sustainable Urban Development Project
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Designing lesser complex projects in urban development may lead to better success rates.

Project Number: 32300-013
Project Name: Kerala Sustainable Urban Development Project
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When doing the design and monitoring framework (DMF) exercise, outcomes should describe the immediate and direct benefits of the project. Outcome statements articulate the change the project is expected to achieve—in this case, the management of in-migration. No separate outcome statement or concept was included in the DMF.

Project Number: 38049-013
Project Name: Urban Infrastructure Development Project
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The DUDES, TCC, and PCC, need to provide additional support for investments in the urban sector to ensure adequate funding to maintain, build capacity and public awareness, and improve access to urban services. The government’s policy calls for Thimphu and Phuentsholing city governments to outsource maintenance rather than to develop in-house capacity.34 This requires the DUDES, TCC, and PCC to enhance skills in project and program management and outsourcing.

Project Number: 38049-013
Project Name: Urban Infrastructure Development Project
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