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The project timeframe did not allow adequate time for developing knowledge and understanding, processes, procedures, and the project implementation framework.

Project Number: 32058-013
Project Name: Road Sector Development Program
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Extensive and regular coordination of ADB staff is important in developing adequate skills, capacities, and experience, and eliminating common implementation bottlenecks.

Project Number: 32058-013
Project Name: Road Sector Development Program
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Executing agencies, ADB project officers, project consultants, and others must very carefully examine and assess the full range of possible impacts from a change of scope. Technically correct, evidence-based positions must prevail.

Project Number: 30535-013
Project Name: Financial Management Project
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Achieving the investment and reform program in a limited timeframe was difficult within a highly bureaucratic environment.

Project Number: 32058-013
Project Name: Road Sector Development Program
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Drinking Water in Market Developments. The project has installed on a pilot basis a low-cost piped water supply system for drinking purposes at Haibatpur Growth Center in Jessore district, which is an arsenic-affected area. A water management committee within the market management committee (MMC) is managing the operation and maintenance of the system, and collects user fees. This approach to the supply of low-cost water in a growth center market (GCM) has proven to be feasible and may be replicated in future projects, while taking its shortcomings into account.

Project Number: 31304-013
Project Name: Rural Infrastructure Improvement Project
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Project readiness in the areas such as land acquisition, detailed design, procurement, establishment of the project management unit and project implementation units should have been in place prior to loan approval.

Project Number: 32058-013
Project Name: Road Sector Development Program
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Lower-cost technologies have significant potential to improve public health. The very high cost of servicing small and isolated towns in PNG through reticulated WSS systems means that lower-cost alternatives should be considered. Water prices have risen and will rise further with the Independent Consumer and Competition Commission's (ICCC) regulatory contract with the Waterboard. This improves the commercial environment for the Waterboard, which it may be able to exploit if it can provide improved services more efficiently.

Project Number: 31467-013
Project Name: Provincial Towns Water Supply and Sanitation Project
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The prequalification activity should ensure participation of capable and resourceful contractors. The postqualification procedures should have been adopted for procuring civil work contracts allowing more participation and wider competition.

Project Number: 32058-013
Project Name: Road Sector Development Program
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Public response to project activities. Consultations, mass media campaigns, awareness workshops, and beneficiary involvement in conflict resolution meetings all contributed to a greater understanding of project interventions by key stakeholders. Implementation activities did not appear to have created significant public protest and generated no critical news reports, public interest litigation, or petitions.

Project Number: 30215-013
Project Name: Forest Resources Management Sector Project
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A well-qualified and experienced project team leader and consultants' familiarity with ADB processes are essential to implement an ADB-financed project.

Project Number: 32058-013
Project Name: Road Sector Development Program
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ADB should have insisted on dedicated professionals with a demonstrated track record to ensure consistency, continuity and competence in the project team.

Project Number: 32058-013
Project Name: Road Sector Development Program
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Subproject Appraisal Reports. Since SARs were prepared for each upazila, 96 SARs were produced. This was a huge and time consuming task that took almost two years to complete. It is recommended that future projects should produce SARs on the basis of districts or regions rather than upazila. This concept would have reduced the number of reports to 16 if prepared on a district basis or 2 if prepared on a regional basis.

Project Number: 31304-013
Project Name: Rural Infrastructure Improvement Project
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Late completion of pre-project activities and advance actions caused inordinate delays and ultimately incompletion. Resources should have been mobilized more quickly.

Project Number: 32058-013
Project Name: Road Sector Development Program
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Targeting poor families with grant funds and low-cost technology makes good sense. The low cost sanitation and community awareness and health education (LC-CAHE) component was the most successful part of the project, despite cost overruns and reduced impact compared with the original targets. It combined low-cost infrastructure improvements with vitally needed information to improve awareness and understanding of the need for greater cleanliness and modern sanitation to improve public health. It also involved working with poor communities in a participatory manner to build commitment.

Project Number: 31467-013
Project Name: Provincial Towns Water Supply and Sanitation Project
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The project had difficulty in attracting international contractors; those who were contracted performed poorly. Suitable packages for local competitive bidding may yield better results.

Project Number: 32058-013
Project Name: Road Sector Development Program
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