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A comprehensive master plan combined with arrangements that put the upstream catchment management and lake management under single administrations can deliver lasting results.

Project Number: 44036-013
Project Name: Anhui Chao Lake Environmental Rehabilitation Project
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Investments with innovative design elements should include monitoring systems that can capture how these innovations have performed for wider dissemination and upscaling. Tackling nonpoint source (NPS) pollution through wetland construction and eco-compensation represents real innovation; however, the project completion report could have better outlined how these approaches worked in practice.

Project Number: 44036-013
Project Name: Anhui Chao Lake Environmental Rehabilitation Project
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Establishing a skilled and effective lake basin authority was a long and arduous process. Converting the Chao Lake Management Authority (CLMA) from a sound concept to a skilled, effective lake basin planning and management organization evolved over time, and actions taken under the project helped the CLMA to establish its authority from scratch.

Project Number: 44036-013
Project Name: Anhui Chao Lake Environmental Rehabilitation Project
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It might be advisable not to use ADB loan proceeds for the payment of retention money, as it requires an unconditional bank guarantee that is difficult for small contractors and suppliers to meet

Project Number: 38594-013
Project Name: Guiyang Integrated Water Resources Management (Sector) Project
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The necessity of water users’ associations (WUAs) needs to be carefully considered at project preparation.

Project Number: 38594-013
Project Name: Guiyang Integrated Water Resources Management (Sector) Project
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It is important to consider the use of benchmarks and a longer timeframe for the establishment of eco-compensation mechanisms that often entails difficult and lengthy negotiations.

Project Number: 38594-013
Project Name: Guiyang Integrated Water Resources Management (Sector) Project
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Careful consideration of overarching and related development plans in the selection of subprojects helps to avoid scope changes.

Project Number: 38594-013
Project Name: Guiyang Integrated Water Resources Management (Sector) Project
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The sector loan modality provides enough flexibility in the selection of subprojects.

Project Number: 38594-013
Project Name: Guiyang Integrated Water Resources Management (Sector) Project
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Although challenging, meeting the social safeguards requirements of complex sector projects with scattered subprojects is possible with the right elements.

Project Number: 38594-013
Project Name: Guiyang Integrated Water Resources Management (Sector) Project
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this project has the potential to be of significant value to implementing a national policy on reservoir rehabilitation. Therefore, constraints to adopting them outside Shandong Province need to be identified and addressed.

Project Number: 40683-013
Project Name: Risk Mitigation and Strengthening of Endangered Reservoirs in Shandong Province Project
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the project results chain was sound although there could have been more explicit connection between the output performance indicators and the outcome economic development performance indicators. The DMF could have included a wider range of potential impacts, especially benefits—particularly if dissemination and adoption elsewhere is a project intention.

Project Number: 40683-013
Project Name: Risk Mitigation and Strengthening of Endangered Reservoirs in Shandong Province Project
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It was intended that successful sustainable reservoir rehabilitation and management models could have significant demonstration value. A more thorough assessment of benefits is required as this could facilitate wider dissemination and adoption.

Project Number: 40683-013
Project Name: Risk Mitigation and Strengthening of Endangered Reservoirs in Shandong Province Project
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Additional consideration should have been given to the provision of the following, which addresses particular problems encountered: An independent, external wastewater system design review should have been undertaken to more effectively review design work and ensure compliance with Indonesian design standards;

Project Number: 43255-013
Project Name: Urban Sanitation and Rural Infrastructure Support to the PNPM Mandiri Project
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More technical input on community sanitation practice should have been included in the CDTA consultants’ terms of reference; and

Project Number: 43255-013
Project Name: Urban Sanitation and Rural Infrastructure Support to the PNPM Mandiri Project
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The more important role of women in project decision-making processes needed more emphasis in project implementation, especially in urban areas in Indonesia.

Project Number: 43255-013
Project Name: Urban Sanitation and Rural Infrastructure Support to the PNPM Mandiri Project
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