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The government's commitment to implement the institutional development, capacity building, and reforms program should have been carefully reviewed, discussed, and tied to funds release. A detailed implementation review and evaluation process must be conducted.

Project Number: 32058-013
Project Name: Road Sector Development Program
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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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Unrealistic work schedules, poor procurement planning, insufficient implementation details, and loose monitoring targets prolonged implementation. Over optimistic implementation plans should have been avoided.

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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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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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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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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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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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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Institutional change process. The magnitude of loss in potential revenue because of its delay in introducing open competition in state plantation timber harvesting was demonstrated analytically to the government through a comprehensive plantation measurement and valuation system. This led to an increase in stumpage rates and provided an incentive for the Forest Department to take steps to review the mandate of the State Timber Corporation and make it more cost efficient. But much still needs to be done to enhance competitiveness in the sector.

Project Number: 30215-013
Project Name: Forest Resources Management Sector 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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Need to avoid including conditions in loans that depend on passing or amending legislation, or seeking high-level approval, such as from the Cabinet. This was the case in the RMC component that sought annual allocations in the budget for road maintenance. Projects that require legal or high-level administrative changes often experience major delays or fail to meet their objectives.

Project Number: 33243-013
Project Name: Road Maintenance and Improvement Project
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The need for ADB to either be more rigorous in enforcing conditions for release of funds, or to have the flexibility to alter release conditions during the course of the program when it becomes obvious that the conditions cannot be genuinely met or are evidently irrelevant to the objectives.

Project Number: 33173-013, 33173-023
Project Name: Agriculture Sector Program II
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The ability of NGOs and the private sector to make a real contribution to extension services depend on their technical and institutional capacity, and this should be taken into account as a basis for selection. Such a lesson implies that other factors were used as the basis for selection. It also stipulated a requirement for orientation of these organizations, implying that this was not done. This introduces concern as to how successful NGOs and private sector providers actually were.

Project Number: 30228-013
Project Name: Crop Diversification Project
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