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Lesson
Greater capacity is needed by the government to manage community relations and negotiate compensation for land and resources utilized. Land acquisition for the Makira subproject was minimal and managed in accordance with ADB's safeguard policy. In the future, greater government capacity will be needed to manage community liaison, identify affected persons, and manage the process of compensation to avoid community dissatisfaction.

Project Number: 39581-012
Project Name: Road Improvement (Sector) Project
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Creating a contracting industry by motivating local communities. This can help maintain roads in good condition while representing value for money and providing positive social outcomes, but it requires adequate resources for effective supervision by engendering accountability of central and provincial governments.

Project Number: 39581-012
Project Name: Road Improvement (Sector) Project
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Stronger internal procedures ensure maintenance quality and probity. Quality control remains a weakness. Funding must be provided to support critical maintenance-related activities - progressive improvement of performance-based contracts, timely and appropriate supervision of maintenance contracts, and asset management planning to ensure proper forward planning of maintenance needs. Sound fiduciary procedures are needed to ensure that the quality and quantity of civil works, and the purchase of goods and services, are matched by proper financial records and approvals.

Project Number: 39581-012
Project Name: Road Improvement (Sector) Project
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Include benefit monitoring evaluation capacity building and training with executing agencies at both national and provincial level. The difficulty of accurately assessing the full economic impact and poverty reduction benefits of this project because of the delay in conducting baseline benefit monitoring highlights the need to ensure the immediate commencement of baseline data measurement prior to civil works commencement.

Project Number: 30271-013
Project Name: Roads for Rural Development Project
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Advanced design and tender document readiness for civil works being prepared at appraisal allowed early civil works contracting and mobilization, ensuring appraisal loan completion dates can be achieved.

Project Number: 30271-013
Project Name: Roads for Rural Development Project
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To more directly facilitate agricultural development activities along rural roads being developed in future, consideration could be given to developing selected rural development schemes to directly support communities located along the rural roads.

Project Number: 30271-013
Project Name: Roads for Rural Development Project
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Executing agencies of future projects need to identify and replace nonperforming contractors at an early stage. Executing agencies also need to more carefully scrutinize the financial, management, and equipment capacities of bidders during bid evaluation.

Project Number: 30271-013
Project Name: Roads for Rural Development Project
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Need for extra effort focused on project preparation, especially in conducting sufficient assessment of the prospects for strategy and policy harmonization in areas that could potentially gain from collective action and regional cooperation.

Project Number: 37449-013
Project Name: Pacific Region: Establishment of the Pacific Aviation Safety Office Project
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A project performance monitoring system (PPMS) was not required, since an existing system was already in place at Directorate General of Highways. However, ADB did require the conduct of surveys and collection of data for specific performance indicators identified at appraisal, which should have been finalized during the early stage of project implementation.

Project Number: 34159-013
Project Name: Road Rehabilitation-2 Project
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The procurement process for consultancy services and civil works was too long in spite of approval by ADB to advance corresponding action. ADB and the executing agency should have agreed on the length of the procurement process, which was already set in the ADB procurement guidelines. The delay in core team consultant procurement led to national consultants being tapped to proceed with the project and avoid delays.

Project Number: 34159-013
Project Name: Road Rehabilitation-2 Project
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More in-depth involvement by the borrower, executing agency, and implementing agencies in the preparation of the project design is important. The cancellation during the implementation of two subcomponents, which were essential to project sustainability, seemed too late since resources have already been committed. Agreeing to the changes should have triggered the revision of the design and monitoring framework.

Project Number: 34159-013
Project Name: Road Rehabilitation-2 Project
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All of the contractors were local, with inadequate funding, expertise, and equipment, which contributed to implementation delays. With rapid road development in Pakistan, such problems may be worsening. To promote capacity development of local and private contractors, ADB needs to strengthen the capacity-building programs, especially in the area where local construction capacity is lacking.

Project Number: 34333-013
Project Name: Balochistan Road Development Sector Project
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Project implementation encountered land acquisition and resettlement challenges. ADB amended the Loan Agreement, which allowed construction to start on the sections where land issues had been resolved. ADB needs to make the government well aware of ADB's safeguard policy and prepare a more feasible loan agreement under future projects.

Project Number: 34333-013
Project Name: Balochistan Road Development Sector Project
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The global price for construction materials rose sharply during implementation. The delays in project implementation made this problem more serious. For some provincial roads under the project, retendering was conducted, but the low rate is unlikely to attract bidders. For future ADB-assisted projects, reasonable price contingencies should be included in the investment plan.

Project Number: 34333-013
Project Name: Balochistan Road Development Sector Project
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The project experienced substantial delays due to security conditions, which led ADB to close the loan before completion of all the components. As a result, and because of weak government financing, the project experienced serious financial problems. ADB needs to pay more attention to local situation and assist in timely project completion. Only fully completing the project, the benefits anticipated can be revealed.

Project Number: 34333-013
Project Name: Balochistan Road Development Sector Project
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