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Project Number: 32494-023
Project Name: Agriculture Rehabilitation Project
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Lesson
Further capacity building must be undertaken in procurement and bid evaluation if provincial and regional procurement is to be continued in similar future projects. While there is a certain autonomy in regional centers, the central government and ADB should adopt a stronger procurement monitoring role, if only to prevent repetition of previous mistakes.

Project Number: 27245-013
Project Name: Southern Philippines Irrigation Sector Project
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Lesson
Stakeholder consultations. Consultations with landowners and stakeholders should be held and Memoranda of Understanding signed prior to award of contract and physical implementation. During the contract for the rehabilitation of coastal infrastructure, it was only discovered that one of the proposed wharfs was located on customary land after the contract was awarded. The timely completion of the contract was therefore at risk, although the situation was eventually resolved.

Project Number: 41105-012
Project Name: Emergency Assistance Project
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Lesson
The role of local government units must be understood, given their limited resources and their primary function as a political institution. While they remain an important inclusion from a lobbying perspective, they cannot adopt roles beyond the level for which they have human and financial resource capacity.

Project Number: 27245-013
Project Name: Southern Philippines Irrigation Sector Project
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Lesson
Preparing feasibility studies for emergency projects. An accelerated approach to preparing feasibility studies and selecting subprojects could be developed for future emergency projects. The process to identify, define, and prioritize the long list of subprojects, prepare and review full feasibility studies, prepare engineering designs, and bid the civil works was time-consuming and prevented early commencement of physical implementation.

Project Number: 41105-012
Project Name: Emergency Assistance Project
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Lesson
Quality subproject feasibility and detailed engineering designs, based on solid geological and topographic surveys, are necessary prerequisites to successful irrigation and road subprojects. Without these, unachievable targets will be established that cause subprojects to be assessed less successful.

Project Number: 27245-013
Project Name: Southern Philippines Irrigation Sector Project
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Lesson
Implementation issues. The long front-end implementation delays from the project serve as a major lesson. The expectations in implementing the project under an emergency modality over 18 months as a sector project over remotely located subproject sites, given the low absorptive capacity of Ministry of Infrastructure Development (MID), may have been unrealistic. For remote subprojects, higher mobilization and demobilization costs should be factored into cost estimates.

Project Number: 41105-012
Project Name: Emergency Assistance Project
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Lesson
Beneficiary contributions must be set at a level that reflects their capacity to pay, and it is considered inappropriate to overload farmers with higher costs where poverty remains an issue.

Project Number: 27245-013
Project Name: Southern Philippines Irrigation Sector Project
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Lesson
Stronger links with technical support and input supplies such as credit should be part of the training of irrigator associations during subproject implementation. While attempts at coordinating technical support were envisaged, much of this came down to personal relationships, and that varied widely between subprojects.

Project Number: 27245-013
Project Name: Southern Philippines Irrigation Sector Project
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Lesson
Participation of beneficiaries at an early stage of subproject preparation will enhance the chance of success where beneficiaries are to assume control of operation and maintenance (O&M).

Project Number: 27245-013
Project Name: Southern Philippines Irrigation Sector Project
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Lesson
A realistic evaluation of institutional capacities is needed during project preparation for the tasks expected of them. This is particularly important with the proposed downsizing of the NIA that is currently taking place.

Project Number: 27245-013
Project Name: Southern Philippines Irrigation Sector Project
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Lesson
Poor quality of the project framework, which lacks clearly identifiable performance indicators, preventing a robust evaluation.

Project Number: 33418-013
Project Name: Tonle Sap Environmental Management Project
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Lesson
Where a large capacity-building component precedes project preparation, reviews by ADB should be more frequent. The consultants should also produce verifiable and detailed reports on progress and staff training. This will allow a more timely response to problems by both ADB and the Borrower.

Project Number: 38458-013
Project Name: Infrastructure Development
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Lesson
When projects cross ministerial boundaries�as was the case with the national and provincial stakeholders in the water resources sector�there must be a clear commitment at the design stage to avoid disputes. Otherwise, such projects should be avoided altogether.

Project Number: 38458-013
Project Name: Infrastructure Development
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Lesson
While the project-preparation facilities made sense, the TA loan itself was spread too thinly. The funds were dispersed across three sectors, and were handled by numerous agencies managing subprojects in many locations. This made coordination a challenge right from the outset, especially given the absence of an experienced and capable local coordination team. It did not work. In retrospect, the multi-sector design of the TA was wrong, and approval should not be given for similar TA loans in the future. The important lesson learned here is to restrict loans to one sector at a time.

Project Number: 38458-013
Project Name: Infrastructure Development
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