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Lesson
The selection of subprojects and project timeliness need to consider the Implementation complexity (such as topography, adverse weather conditions at the construction site, and the need for specialized experts), experience of the executing agency, availability of specialist contractors, and available working seasons.

Project Number: 40648-013, 40648-037
Project Name: Infrastructure Development Investment Program for Tourism (Tranche 4 and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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A holistic approach to developing tourism attractions, with the necessary infrastructure, can be encouraged to ensure that expected outcomes and impacts are achieved.

Project Number: 40648-013, 40648-037
Project Name: Infrastructure Development Investment Program for Tourism (Tranche 4 and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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In selecting subprojects and project timelines, it is important, right at the design stage, to consider the Implementation complexity, experience of the executing agency, availability of specialized contractors, and available working season. Delays in the execution of subprojects under this tranche occurred due to adverse weather conditions at construction sites and the difficult work terrain.

Project Number: 40648-034
Project Name: Infrastructure Development Investment Program for Tourism - Tranche 3
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Timely capacity development for executing agencies with limited experience in ADB’s procurement rules and in safeguard requirements are important for an efficient project implementation. For example, retendering of TWB’s first works contract caused significant delays and could have been avoid

Project Number: 42394-022
Project Name: Nuku'alofa Urban Development Sector Project
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It is important to prepare meaningful monitoring frameworks with relevant and clearly defined indicators and targets to assess project effectiveness objectively. For example, the service area (Nuku’alofa water supply network or the overall Tongatapu island) to which the baseline data refer to are unclear (footnotes 16 and 17). In addition, the PCR noted that some of the gender indicators were outside of the project’s sphere of influence and could have been better defined.

Project Number: 42394-022
Project Name: Nuku'alofa Urban Development Sector Project
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Ensuring that contractors engage project management and supervision team with adequate capacity is important. The reason for delays in implementing works contracts and the poor quality of works at the beginning of the project was the low performance of works contractors, who did not provide adequate management and supervision staff in accordance with their contractual obligations. Implementation agencies had to provide additional input to compensate contractors’ deficiencies, which resulted in high additional costs for consulting services.

Project Number: 42394-022
Project Name: Nuku'alofa Urban Development 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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Active involvement of line agencies from project inception stage until completion and handover to urban local bodies (ULBs) ensured effective asset transfer planning and budgeting for smooth operation and maintenance (O&M) and sustainability of asset. O&M has been designed into the project, with contractors required to submit to ULBs O&M manuals, technical data, troubleshooting methodologies, and rehabilitation and restoration of electro-mechanical systems. The O&M cell was instituted in August 2009 and was adequately staffed under the MFF.

Project Number: 38254-053
Project Name: North Karnataka Urban Sector Investment Program - Tranche 3
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Extensive community consultations and information dissemination helped improve the uptake of infrastructure services and hygiene practices. Focusing on behavioral change among the poor and vulnerable population groups and working through behavioral change leaders and women's self-help groups, the project significantly helped reduce open defecation practices. To sustain interventions that induce rapid adoption of improved sanitation services, it trained women-led community-based committees to promote public hygiene and maintain community toilets in slums.

Project Number: 38254-053
Project Name: North Karnataka Urban Sector Investment Program - Tranche 3
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Projects require an in-depth assessment of ownership and use of land. Procurement for the Butwal auto village subprojects (AVS) was severely delayed by land ownership issues. The automobile enterprises were located on land leased from the municipality intended only for establishment of automobile enterprises, but the entrepreneurs used the land for business and residential purposes. These entrepreneurs were skeptical that their existing land uses could continue if they entered into a public-private partnership agreement, and thus protested the AVS.

Project Number: 36188-023
Project Name: Secondary Towns Integrated Urban Environmental Improvement Project
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An adequate assessment is needed when setting targets. This project had a few design challenges that could not be addressed during implementation. For the target of serving 3,000 households with new water supply connections and 4,500 with improved ones, financing was not included in the approved project, so could never be achieved. The target of serving 25,000 households with sewer connections was ambitious, as only about 13,680 households would get these connections based on the final engineering designs.

Project Number: 36188-023
Project Name: Secondary Towns Integrated Urban Environmental Improvement Project
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It is critical to embed targeted and specified stakeholder risk analysis and risk mitigation measures into the planning of complex, community-driven, and local government-implemented infrastructure investments, especially for multi-dimensional and cross-sector urban development projects. One of the critical project lessons learned is that, although the project’s governance risk assessment and management plan foresaw the cost and time overrun owing to disbursement and

Project Number: 42161-013
Project Name: Integrated Urban Development Project
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