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It is important to have realistic implementation periods. To achieve this, project designs need to consider the complex government bureaucratic processes, ensure adequate assessment and monitoring of the unfolding political environment, and adopt appropriate mitigation measures to overcome implementation delays.

Project Number: 42248-013, 42248-023
Project Name: Second Chittagong Hill Tracts Rural Development Project
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Inadequate consideration of the terrain, topography, and other physical characteristics of the project site may lead to design changes, with implications on project scope and costs. Separate procurement packages involving environmental mitigation measures cannot considered in the hilly region. This resulted in a reduction of targets in rural roads as funds were reallocated to new protection work packages.

Project Number: 42248-013, 42248-023
Project Name: Second Chittagong Hill Tracts Rural Development Project
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Establishment and effective usage of a project performance monitoring system (PPMS) allows proper project benefit identification, quantification and valuation. However, no PPMS was established, with absence of requirement specified in the report and recommendation of the President or loan covenants resulting in poor data for evaluation at project completion

Project Number: 41193-015
Project Name: Western Regional Road Corridor Investment Program - Tranche 1
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A project associated with a larger or “parent” project needs a critical and in-depth assessment of its technical design and scope, and implementation timeline. This helps in ensuring that the target activities and outputs, along with its planned implementation period, could be delivered as expected.

Project Number: 45200-002
Project Name: Sustainable Urban Transport for Ho Chi Minh Mass Rapid Transit Line 2
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The level of institutional capacity and limitations of the executing agency are crucial factors that need to be carefully developed on time. Furthermore, the experience of the borrower and executing agencies in managing ADB-financed projects needs to be duly taken into account during risk assessment to provide the necessary capacity building and skills set prior to execution of a project. examined during project appraisal to effectively support project implementation. Identification of

Project Number: 45200-002
Project Name: Sustainable Urban Transport for Ho Chi Minh Mass Rapid Transit Line 2
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Ensuring adequate project performance monitorng system (PPMS) design—along with collection of baseline data at project preparation phase—supports effective monitoring of a project’s performance. Although establishing a PPMS was covenanted in the grant agreement, the PPMS was ineffective in providing the data required for calculation of economic internal rate of return. The lack of data indicates that the PPMS was inappropriately designed and that a greater focus on the PPMS design at project preparation is needed. For

Project Number: 40263-022
Project Name: Domestic Maritime Support (Sector) Project
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Appropriately designing the project performance monitoring system during design stage would ensure that it captures accurate and necessary baseline and monitoring data for better tracking and assessing project performance.

Project Number: 49215-001
Project Name: Earthquake Emergency Assistance Project
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Project readiness challenges could result in sequential delays of the different tranches in an MFF, leaving insufficient time for implementation within the MFF term and making MFF less relevant. Prior to the approval of each tranche, the initial design for each project was prepared to varying degrees.

Project Number: 44483-024, 44483-023, 44483-026, 44483-027
Project Name: Second Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 2 Road Investment Program
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High quality detailed designs, ensured through the engagement of competent consultants, will facilitate advance procurement thus allowing projects to start up without delay as intended by the advance procurement actions. With advance procurement action, the executing agency succeeded in shortening the time for procurement after loan effectiveness. Despite the positive effect, the detailed design was not prepared correctly, resulting in the technically qualified bidder’s financial proposal being higher than the cost estimates.

Project Number: 44483-023, 44483-026
Project Name: Second Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 2 Road Investment Program (Tranches 1 and 2)
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Lack of project allocation and/or firm funding sources during implementation and post-project operation can jeopardize the establishment of auxiliary services and other components initially planned to maximize project benefits. The project mandated the development of five community facilitation centers (CFCs) along the project roads to overall create opportunities for the economic uplift of the local population by improving local market hubs and improving their linkage to national markets.

Project Number: 47281-001
Project Name: National Highway Network Development in Balochistan Project
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ADB safeguard policy requirement of paying affected persons before construction should be incorporated in project land acquisition and resettlement plans (LARPs) to ensure its implementation. This is especially important for the disbursement of small amounts. ADB projects teams should also learn from good practices in implementing ADB safeguard policies in other projects in Pakistan that involve multiple agencies—both federal and provincial.

Project Number: 47281-001
Project Name: National Highway Network Development in Balochistan Project
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Timely completion of projects requires careful consideration in the project implementation timelines of all factors that could hinder work progress; where these factors cannot be anticipated, timely adjustments and response measures should be undertaken. This project suffered from several challenges like (i) design reviews due to unforeseen soil strata, (ii) security constraints, (iii) lack of skilled labor, (iv) difficult terrain in one road section, and (v) unprecedented rain fall in the project area, etc. some of which are common to infrastructure projects.

Project Number: 47281-001
Project Name: National Highway Network Development in Balochistan Project
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Well-developed monitoring framework with logically defined target indicators can assist the project in measuring its achievements and results objectively. Under the project, an indicator about the share of e-trikes in the operation of 3-wheelers or the number of local government units adopting electric mobility options for public transport would have been more appropriate outcome indicators. Furthermore, the e-trikes’ operating costs and drivers’ income could have been included to assess the financial suitability of the new technology.

Project Number: 43207-013
Project Name: Market Transformation through Introduction of Energy-Efficient Electric Vehicles Project
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Programs such as this should take a holistic approach to measuring and abating air pollution. Although substantial progress has been made, longer-term policy measures to address the ongoing air quality issue in Mongolia are still needed The increased concentrations of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide show shortcomings in the program’s overall achievements, along with the concentrations of small particulate matter which remain above World Health Organization’s guidelines, necessitating more policy actions.

Project Number: 53028-001
Project Name: Ulaanbaatar Air Quality Improvement
Program and Ulaanbaatar Air Quality Improvement
Program – Phase 2
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It is important to minimize if not completely prevent the need for design changes that could exacerbate implementation challenges. The project as delivered differs significantly from that expected at appraisal. A memorandum of understanding following the April 2013 loan review mission had made extensive and critical comments on the conceptual and detailed design of the project.

Project Number: 41192-013
Project Name: Regional Logistics Development Project
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