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Lesson
Sustained policy dialogues, close collaboration, and timely communication among stakeholders help ensure effective and smooth resolution of resettlement and compensation issues. It is vital to consider the concerns of local people and beneficiaries in the project design. The project conducted adequate consultation meetings, focus group discussions, and awareness campaigns among stakeholders. Grievances were resolved effectively through either official deliberation at grievance redress committees or preliminary informal meeting at the field level

Project Number: 49125-001
Project Name: Second Jharkhand State Road Project
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As demonstrated by this program, providing a TA to strengthen the institutional capacity of executing and implementing agencies is essential for enabling improved project implementation. However, a caveat is to avoid an optimistic assumption that the absorptive and implementation capacities of the executing and implementing agencies would achieve a significant improvement right after the TA and capacity building measures.

Project Number: 40423-053
Project Name: Rural Connectivity Investment Program (Tranche 3 and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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Lesson
A lesson statement would be: Knowledge products that are of good quality, operationally relevant, innovative, and responsive to the needs and demands a particular country and region can support engagements in policy dialogue on development priorities, cross-country learning and knowledge sharing from development experiences, and business development and operational planning.

Project Number: 46500-001
Project Name: Establishment of the Pacific Regional Infrastructure Facility Coordination Office
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Lesson
Basing investments on analytically substantiated need forms a firm foundation that can endure regime change. It is not stated in the TCR whether or not the outputs 1 and 2 were disseminated or made available elsewhere; however, these knowledge products could be very useful for the broader roads and highway sector usage within Sri Lanka.

Project Number: 46374-001
Project Name: Southern Highways Investment Program
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Lesson
When formulating a CDTA project targeting government agencies, adequate consultation with the government should be carried out to ensure the designed activities and expected outputs will be well-aligned with the priority and/or preference of the targeted government agencies.

Project Number: 46370-002
Project Name: Improving Road Network Management and Safety
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Lesson
A total of 24 knowledge products were developed during this TA. Examples of successful and effective hand-over projects include the Pacific utilities benchmarking performance work of PRIF to the Pacific Water and Wastewater Association (PWWA) and to the Pacific Power Association (PPA). The 2016 PWWA benchmarking report was released during the Pacific Water conference and Expo in Tonga, August 2016. The report was based on the indicators developed during 2013 PWWA benchmarking exercise supported by PRIF.

Project Number: 46500-001
Project Name: Establishment of the Pacific Regional Infrastructure Facility Coordination Office
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Road safety agenda was not highly prioritized in DOH and understanding of road safety engineering was limited. To enhance efficiency of the developed training program, further strengthening of road safety engineering section and investment prioritization on road safety program are required. Road maintenance program also does not have high profile in DOH, and capacity of potential contractors is limited. Continuous training support is recommended under ADB financed projects, to ensure the sustainability of the TA results.

Project Number: 46370-002
Project Name: Improving Road Network Management and Safety
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