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The impacts of land acquisition and resettlement were not well estimated in the resettlement plan, which led to a 30% increase in the amount of land acquisition and a 187% increase in house demolition area. This was mainly due to impacts induced by connection roads and service stations, as well as temporary buildings that had not been included in the resettlement plan. The project was processed in early 2000, but updating the resettlement plan has since been made a standard requirement stipulated in loan covenants.

Project Number: 30424-013
Project Name: Shaanxi Roads Development Project
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The inclusion of 70 additional local roads for improvement was proposed and approved during the later stages of the original project implementation. Local road improvement has produced very positive impacts. However, it led to loan extensions of about 3 years. An integrated approach to combining improvement of local roads and the project expressway during project processing would ensure a more effective and efficient outcome.

Project Number: 30424-013
Project Name: Shaanxi Roads Development Project
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During the project preparation stage, it was anticipated that the project expressway would generate significant local socioeconomic development impacts. The expressway served not only as an important section of the transport corridor, but also as a vital link between Weinan and Xi'an and other neighboring regions. With growing traffic volume, it was observed that toll collection capacities at some exits were limited, which periodically caused long queues.

Project Number: 30424-013
Project Name: Shaanxi Roads Development Project
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The cost estimate of the toll system was overestimated at appraisal, and the actual cost was about one-third the appraisal estimate. The main reasons for this difference include (i) the network-based toll system arrangement resulted in cancellation of unnecessary equipment; and (ii) the cost estimate was made in 2000 and procurement was conducted in 2004, during which time the availability of more advanced information technologies contributed to a lower and more competitive actual cost.

Project Number: 30424-013
Project Name: Shaanxi Roads Development Project
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No new lessons

Project Number: 33062-013
Project Name: Road Rehabilitation (Sector) Project (Loan 1798-INO)
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Labor- related regulatory and administrative reforms were included in the design but given the program loan focus on fiscal matters and reduction of recurrent costs, these measures were not achieved because these measures required increase in public expenditure and legislation.

Project Number: 32024-013
Project Name: Sindh Rural Development Project
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A multisector community development project must be organic in nature (i.e., self- operating, which reduces the coordination demands on the executing agency, and the need for monitoring by ADB). This can only happen if (i) the design includes comparatively more tested and proven interventions and fewer new initiatives; and (ii) the interventions are limited in number and strategic in nature; and (iii) if an appropriate executing agency and nongovernment organizations (NGOs) are selected at the appraisal stage.

Project Number: 32024-013
Project Name: Sindh Rural Development Project
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Links between labor rights and welfare, good governance practices, poverty reduction and the improvement of labor rights through loans by multilateral financing institutions is relatively under-researched, at least with respect to Pakistan. Yet, given the overarching focus of ADB on good governance and poverty reduction, it is critical that this be explored. Poverty reduction not only requires that income opportunities be created, but also that these opportunities constitute a means by which individuals and households can exit the absolute poverty cycle.

Project Number: 32024-013
Project Name: Sindh Rural Development Project
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Multisector community development projects are generally complicated in nature and adding a labor rights protection agenda to these projects would complicate implementation.

Project Number: 32024-013
Project Name: Sindh Rural Development Project
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Lesson
Projects that are innovative in nature or complicated in design inherently involve delays and require intensive ADB supervision. The potential delays should be factored into the design. Community development projects require additional time and proper arrangements for community mobilization and social preparation processes. ADB experience with such projects, including the Sindh Rural Development Project, shows they generally experience delays of 2 years. The project period should not be less than 7 years.

Project Number: 32024-013
Project Name: Sindh Rural Development Project
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Sector loans lack the scope to address crosscutting themes and have mostly been successful due to established institutional linkages within given sectors. In contrast, the issue of labor rights is not confined to a sector, but is a crosscutting macro-level structural issue involving nationwide economic, sociopolitical, and legal reforms.

Project Number: 32024-013
Project Name: Sindh Rural Development Project
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To avoid startup delays and politicization of the recruitment process, the most feasible mode of procurement of community mobilization services is single-source selection of one qualified NGO at the appraisal stage.

Project Number: 32024-013
Project Name: Sindh Rural Development Project
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The agenda of labor rights is also incompatible with these loans because rather than entailing restructuring of commodity, capital and fiscal markets through rapidly-disbursed loans, it involves political processes labor representation in legislative bodies, constitutional and legal provisions, an effective judicial system, and above all the abolition of a feudal structure, which is a root cause of bonded labor.

Project Number: 32024-013
Project Name: Sindh Rural Development Project
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Given the sector mandate of line agencies in Pakistan, provincial planning and development departments are the best institutional homes for multisector projects, as these are the only departments with a multisector mandate. In addition, they have established reporting lines and institutional relationships with line departments and district governments.

Project Number: 32024-013
Project Name: Sindh Rural Development Project
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No new lessons

Project Number: 34561-013
Project Name: Chongqing-Guizhou Roads Development Project (Chongzun Expressway)
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