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Lesson
During implementation, the civil work contractor demonstrated resilience and a strong ability to engage in complex civil works under the challenging geological and climate conditions. Civil works contracts under future projects need to offer greater incentives to contractors for better performance and penalize those contractors with poor performance.

Project Number: 36257-013
Project Name: Southern Transport Corridor Road Rehabilitation Project
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Stakeholder consultations. Consultations with landowners and stakeholders should be held and Memoranda of Understanding signed prior to award of contract and physical implementation. During the contract for the rehabilitation of coastal infrastructure, it was only discovered that one of the proposed wharfs was located on customary land after the contract was awarded. The timely completion of the contract was therefore at risk, although the situation was eventually resolved.

Project Number: 41105-012
Project Name: Emergency Assistance Project
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Lesson
As a pioneer in Sichuan Province in applying software to manage road projects, Sichuan Panxi Expressway Company Limited (SPECL) developed a construction management and administration system as the main tool managing major project implementation activities. Under the system, tripartite management of project fund application, disbursement, and supervision was established between the employer, contractors, and the local commercial bank.

Project Number: 32334-013
Project Name: Southern Sichuan Roads Development Project
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Lesson
Sufficient contingency is needed to cover cost increases. For future projects, a design-build contracting can ensure more sophisticated engineering and mitigate the risk of price escalation.

Project Number: 36257-013
Project Name: Southern Transport Corridor Road Rehabilitation Project
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Preparing feasibility studies for emergency projects. An accelerated approach to preparing feasibility studies and selecting subprojects could be developed for future emergency projects. The process to identify, define, and prioritize the long list of subprojects, prepare and review full feasibility studies, prepare engineering designs, and bid the civil works was time-consuming and prevented early commencement of physical implementation.

Project Number: 41105-012
Project Name: Emergency Assistance Project
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As the Kyrgyz Republic is a mountainous country and the project area is known for its slope instability, these challenges should have been taken into account during project preparation. Careful and rigorous technical design and appropriate advance actions would have contributed to a higher degree of project readiness for implementation.

Project Number: 36257-013
Project Name: Southern Transport Corridor Road Rehabilitation Project
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Lesson
Implementation issues. The long front-end implementation delays from the project serve as a major lesson. The expectations in implementing the project under an emergency modality over 18 months as a sector project over remotely located subproject sites, given the low absorptive capacity of Ministry of Infrastructure Development (MID), may have been unrealistic. For remote subprojects, higher mobilization and demobilization costs should be factored into cost estimates.

Project Number: 41105-012
Project Name: Emergency Assistance Project
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Effective orientation programs on project approaches, implementation modalities, and the roles of stakeholders contributed to successful project implementation. Implementation partners should be well informed of the approaches and strategies of the project prior to implementation.

Project Number: 29472-013
Project Name: Road Network Development Project
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The project was implemented during the conflict period (2001-2006) and it faced challenges from local communities, which made additional demands and at times disrupted the work progress. Part A could not be completed as it was highly affected by unrest in Terai. A proper analysis of road design and selection of road sections should be carried out during the design phase to ensure timely completion of the selected road sections is possible.

Project Number: 29472-013
Project Name: Road Network Development Project
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A few civil works contracts could not be completed even after extending the loan closing date by 18 months. The timeframe, working season, and site analysis should be considered prior to award of contract to ensure timely completion of the contracts.

Project Number: 29472-013
Project Name: Road Network Development Project
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The absence of international joint venture partners in implementation of international competitive bidding (ICB) contracts awarded to joint ventures was observed during project implementation. In all cases, it was clear that the local contractors had applied for prequalification and submitted bids in joint venture with a foreign partner simply to meet the pre-qualification and post-qualification requirements.

Project Number: 29472-013
Project Name: Road Network Development Project
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During the implementation of Part C, the change in construction method from labor to equipment based (otta seal standard) had an effect on the original road length. Detailed study on the construction method needs to be carefully undertaken during the design phase to avoid changes during the implementation phase.

Project Number: 29472-013
Project Name: Road Network Development 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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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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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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