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Lesson
Timely and close monitoring of safeguard implementation by trained project management staff and consultants minimizes disruption to communities and facilitates smooth implementation. A grievance redress mechanism was established across all three subprojects; but no grievances were officially recorded.

Project Number: 44240-013
Project Name: Urban Infrastructure Project
Report Date: 30 Jan 2024

Lesson
ADB’s ability to effectively monitor safeguard and technical due diligence issues arise when the loans are financially closed before works are completed.

Project Number: 38254-053
Project Name: North Karnataka Urban Sector Investment Program (Tranche 3)
Report Date: 19 Dec 2023

Lesson
Urban development projects typically involve a variety of risks in the course of its implementation and execution of activities. Formulating appropriate project design and risk assessment during preparatory phase is critical to minimize start-up and implementation delays. This includes a systematic appraisal of the project’s technical scope and engineering design, project cost and contingencies, environmental and social safeguards, and financial and contractual risks.

Project Number: 43023-013
Project Name: Guangxi Beibu Gulf Cities Development Project
Report Date: 14 Dec 2023

Content type

  • Lesson (3)

Countries

  • Bhutan (1)
  • China, People's Republic of (1)
  • India (1)

Sectors

  • (-) Water and other urban infrastructure and services (3)
    • (-) Urban sewerage (3)
    • Urban water supply (2)
    • Other urban services (1)
    • Urban policy, institutional and capacity development (1)
  • Transport (2)

Themes

  • Inclusive Economic Growth (2)
  • Environmentally Sustainable Growth (1)
  • Governance and Capacity Development (3)
  • Gender Equity and Mainstreaming (3)

Report Year

  • 2024 (1)
  • 2023 (2)

Report Source

  • Validation of self-evaluation (2)
  • Self-evaluation (1)

Report Rating

  • Less than successful (1)
  • Successful (2)

Applicability

  • Project-level (2)
  • Sector-level (1)

Topics

  • Awareness and communication strategies (2)
  • Beneficiary engagement (1)
  • Budgeting (3)
  • Bureaucratic structures (1)
  • Capacity development (10)
  • Change in priorities (1)
  • Commitment and leadership (2)
  • Country context (7)
  • Data availability and baselines (4)
  • Due diligence (1)
  • EA/IA capacity assessment, Implementation support (1)
  • EA/IA capacity development (1)
  • Economic (3)
  • Ecosystem (1)
  • Engineering designs, Project cost estimates (1)
  • Epidemics (2)
  • Finance and financial aspects (12)
  • Financial (7)
  • Financial management and reporting (1)
  • Financing mechanism (1)
  • Gender (5)
  • Government priority changes (1)
  • Indicators (5)
  • Institutional (15)
  • Lack of commitment (2)
  • Loan agreement (1)
  • Methodologies / approaches (12)
  • Modality (4)
  • Monitoring and evaluation (15)
  • Operation and maintenance (O&M), Sustainability (1)
  • Organizational capacity (8)
  • Others (11)
  • Overambitious objectives (1)
  • Overambitious targets (1)
  • Policy and reform (6)
  • Policyy and reform (1)
  • Procurement (11)
  • Project design (38)
  • Project management (13)
  • Project readiness (1)
  • Reporting and supervision (2)
  • Safeguards (1)
  • Scope changes (3)
  • Sector issues (3)
  • Skilled human resources (6)
  • Social (5)
  • Social acceptance (1)
  • Staff turnover (1)
  • Stakeholder engagement (10)
  • Stakeholder involvement (1)
  • Stakeholder selection (3)
  • Tariffs (1)
  • Technical (16)
  • Time allocation or sequencing (1)
  • Time allocation or task sequencing (3)
  • Unsupportive legal and regulatory processes (1)
  • (-) Environmental (3)

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