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A detailed technical assessment of the areas that could not be connected to the grid is essential to determining the viability of off-grid solar home systems.

Project Number: 42252-022
Project Name: Rural Renewable Energy Development Project
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Adequate technical assistance (TA) is essential to enhancing reform design and implementation and accelerating the reform process.

Project Number: 50051-001
Project Name: Improving Public Expenditure Quality Program, Subprogram 1
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A more in-depth analysis allows better consideration of the scale, scope, and sequencing of agricultural production vis-à-vis other value-chain activities, including marketing aspects. Lessons learned from past ADB-assisted agriculture and livelihood development projects in the country can also help clarify similar issues encountered in project design.

Project Number: 37292-042
Project Name: High Mountain Agribusiness and Livelihood Improvement Project
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Structures that ensure appropriate flow of information facilitate prompt responses to implementation issues.

Project Number: 42252-022
Project Name: Rural Renewable Energy Development Project
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Close coordination enhances the outcome and value-addition of each donor’s contribution to the reform process in developing countries.

Project Number: 50051-001
Project Name: Improving Public Expenditure Quality Program, Subprogram 1
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Thorough planning during the design phase helps support the achievement of the targeted project results.

Project Number: 37292-042
Project Name: High Mountain Agribusiness and Livelihood Improvement Project
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To confirm development outcomes, both clear definitions identifying the target beneficiaries and clear detailed records of participation are required. The project design did not provide a clear definition of contract farmers. It was therefore unclear whether only the lead contract farmer should be counted toward the outcome target number of farmers, or whether the group of farmers represented by the lead farmer should be included, or whether the entire cohort of lead farmers, lead farmer groups, and seasonal workers was covered by the term.

Project Number: 46904-014
Project Name: Sylvan Agriculture Limited PRAN Agribusiness Project
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Project outcome targets must be set at appropriate levels and risks must be recognized and appropriately mitigated. The evaluation recognized that this was the first agribusiness project done by ADB private sector operations since 1985 and that familiarity with contract farming may have been limited at the time of appraisal. The target of 25,000 contract farmers for SAL’s operations appears to have been formulated based solely on the starch plant’s capacity, rather than on specific analysis of likely farmer participation.

Project Number: 46904-014
Project Name: Sylvan Agriculture Limited PRAN Agribusiness Project
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Selecting a strong sponsor with alignment on development targets is critical to achieving results. PRAN is a flagship company in Bangladesh with sufficient corporate experience, resources, and knowledge to develop and deliver agribusiness projects. Through its newly established group company, SAL, the project was constructed to appropriate standards on time and under budget. All the required permissions were obtained, and the project complied with government regulations and ADB requirements. Contract farmers and factory staff benefited from the project.

Project Number: 46904-014
Project Name: Sylvan Agriculture Limited PRAN Agribusiness Project
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Successful introduction of a new crop may require support from both private sector and government. Through the project, PRAN has introduced cassava in Bangladesh at commercial scale. Its first approaches to farmers were in 2014. PRAN has accessed support from multilateral development banks and nongovernment organizations to develop the crop but interaction with the government appears to have been limited.

Project Number: 46904-014
Project Name: Sylvan Agriculture Limited PRAN Agribusiness Project
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Programs that involve public sector management and finance reforms need to consider information from the country’s Supreme Audit Institution, not only to inform their views on the transparency and accountability of government administration before the program commences, but also in the evaluation of the program once it is complete.

Project Number: 50145-001
Project Name: Countercyclical Support Facility Program
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Additional studies to confirm project impacts are important when ADB is delivering first-time projects. This project was ADB’s first private sector agriculture project since 1985 and at the time of appraisal very few recent private sector approvals had been made in Bangladesh. The gender and poverty impact studies were undertaken at ADB’s request to identify the importance of the project for women, factory workers, and contract farmers. These were high-quality assessments and provided recommendations, some of which were incorporated into the second ADB loan to SAL.

Project Number: 46904-014
Project Name: Sylvan Agriculture Limited PRAN Agribusiness Project
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The assessment of a program’s development effectiveness is difficult in the absence of a structured and aligned outcome indicators.

Project Number: 50145-001
Project Name: Countercyclical Support Facility Program
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Appropriate targeting method and the quality of the fiscal stimulus are crucial in supporting CSF programs.

Project Number: 50145-001
Project Name: Countercyclical Support Facility Program
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Well-designed road facilities and the systematic monitoring and collection of the traffic accident and volume data are critical for transport policy and for safe and sustainable transport over the long term. Road investments alone cannot ensure that sustainability objectives are achieved; complementary measures are needed to offset the adverse impacts of infrastructure provision, but to support this, traffic accident and count data need to be accurately collected and monitored.

Project Number: 41121-023, 41121-033, 41121-043, 41121-053, 45150-001
Project Name: CAREC Transport Corridor 1 (Zhambyl Oblast Section) [Western Europe–Western People’s Republic of China International Transit Corridor] Investment Program and Taraz Bypass Project (Kazakhstan)
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