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Designing lesser complex projects in urban development may lead to better success rates.

Project Number: 32300-013
Project Name: Kerala Sustainable Urban Development Project
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The government should do proactive or advanced land acquisition as early as possible in the project cycle, and where feasible, before loan effectiveness to help minimize project delays.

Project Number: 32300-013
Project Name: Kerala Sustainable Urban Development Project
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Consultant inputs can be essential in supporting government agencies in implementing projects covering a large area with multiple components.

Project Number: 32300-013
Project Name: Kerala Sustainable Urban Development Project
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Intensified handholding can lead to more efficient implementation.

Project Number: 32300-013
Project Name: Kerala Sustainable Urban Development Project
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The time required for selecting the appropriate technology and the completion of detailed design should be incorporated into the implementation schedule and reflected in the DMF.

Project Number: 41462-013
Project Name: Comprehensive Socioeconomic Urban Development Project in Viet Tri, Hung Yen, and Dong Dang
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Viet Nam’s strategy to decentralize development projects to the local level can be successfully implemented due to the readiness and capacity of local institutions and staff; this strategy can be adapted or followed in other regions and sector of the economy.

Project Number: 41462-013
Project Name: Comprehensive Socioeconomic Urban Development Project in Viet Tri, Hung Yen, and Dong Dang
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For consistency in economic analyses, a common methodology must be used by all—the ADB staff, consultants, and the government.

Project Number: 41462-013
Project Name: Comprehensive Socioeconomic Urban Development Project in Viet Tri, Hung Yen, and Dong Dang
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There is a need for ADB projects to further strengthen the quality of economic analysis.

Project Number: 41462-013
Project Name: Comprehensive Socioeconomic Urban Development Project in Viet Tri, Hung Yen, and Dong Dang
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When doing the design and monitoring framework (DMF) exercise, outcomes should describe the immediate and direct benefits of the project. Outcome statements articulate the change the project is expected to achieve—in this case, the management of in-migration. No separate outcome statement or concept was included in the DMF.

Project Number: 38049-013
Project Name: Urban Infrastructure Development Project
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The DUDES, TCC, and PCC, need to provide additional support for investments in the urban sector to ensure adequate funding to maintain, build capacity and public awareness, and improve access to urban services. The government’s policy calls for Thimphu and Phuentsholing city governments to outsource maintenance rather than to develop in-house capacity.34 This requires the DUDES, TCC, and PCC to enhance skills in project and program management and outsourcing.

Project Number: 38049-013
Project Name: Urban Infrastructure Development Project
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To avoid significant delays (4 years) in agreeing on compensation, careful consideration needs to be given to the following: (i) the location of the proposed house relocation site need to be close to the original houses; (ii) compensation rates offered should be higher due to cost inflation of construction materials; and (iii) the relocation sites need to be comparable.

Project Number: 40642-013
Project Name: Guangxi Wuzhou Urban Development Project
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For a project with clear demonstration value, dissemination activities need to be encouraged. Dissemination techniques were discussed during loan review missions (knowledge products including videos and information being available on the regional knowledge hub established by ADB and Tongji University as examples) but the PCR was silent on these initiatives.

Project Number: 40642-013
Project Name: Guangxi Wuzhou Urban Development Project
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Impact indicators need not always be project-specific.

Project Number: 40642-013
Project Name: Guangxi Wuzhou Urban Development Project
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The allowable size of civil works contracts should consider contractor technical and financial capacity, geographic proximity of the projects and ease of supervision by the implementing agency. While a smaller contract size encourages competition and hypothetically lower prices, this may discourage technically and financially capable contractors from participating. This may also result in poor quality of work that would require more frequent supervisory visits and rectification.

Project Number: 40559-013
Project Name: Second Urban Governance and Infrastructure Improvement (Sector) Project
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Inclusion of simple but implementable and transformative features can enhance project design.

Project Number: 32300-013
Project Name: Kerala Sustainable Urban Development Project
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