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A major constraint to the sustainability of reforms in macroeconomic management and financial sector development in small economies is the difficulty in recruiting, training, and retaining staff to undertake key analysis, supervision, and management functions.

Project Number: 46371-002
Project Name: Strengthening Economic Management Program II
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Realistic targets linked to performance indicators need to be set with clear baseline data and time period, and to ensure that these indicators are monitorable and measurable.

Project Number: 31309-013
Project Name: Post-Literacy and Continuing Education Project
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During the DMF exercise, outcomes should describe the immediate and direct benefits of the outputs and articulate changes the project is expected to create.

Project Number: 31309-013
Project Name: Post-Literacy and Continuing Education Project
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Decentralized and community-based training ensures relevance of skills in demand by the labor market in a particular district.

Project Number: 31309-013
Project Name: Post-Literacy and Continuing Education Project
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The DMF, along with the indicators and targets, should be revised and updated accordingly if and when a project goes through a major change in scope.

Project Number: 31309-013
Project Name: Post-Literacy and Continuing Education Project
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Critical elements of the outcome must be identified as early as possible and addressed either through additional funding or technical assistance prior to loan closing.

Project Number: 42489-043
Project Name: Water Supply and Sanitation Services Investment Program – Tranche 3
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A methodology should be developed and incorporated in ADB documents, when measuring economic impacts of multi-project programs.

Project Number: 32298-013, 32298-073
Project Name: Madhya Pradesh Power Sector Investment Program (Tranche 6 and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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The cornerstone of effective programs is to ensure that the building blocks for acceptable management are in place; therefore, ADB should seek opportunities to ensure that coordinated and consistent project management procedures and practices are developed.

Project Number: 42489-043
Project Name: Water Supply and Sanitation Services Investment Program – Tranche 3
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The practice of using a weighted average EIRR, which is inaccurate as economic benefits are not directly proportional to investment volumes and to the other metrics used for weighting due to the interrelated benefits among projects, should be discontinued in ex-ante and ex-post evaluations of programs supported by MFF.

Project Number: 32298-013, 32298-073
Project Name: Madhya Pradesh Power Sector Investment Program (Tranche 6 and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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Effective development of competitive markets for infrastructure development require a policy framework to provide for project selection, development, tendering, bid evaluation, and contract management; therefore, donors should be careful before promoting competition in water supply and sanitation without a framework and internal capacity in place.

Project Number: 42489-043
Project Name: Water Supply and Sanitation Services Investment Program – Tranche 3
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Economic and financial analyses should be consolidated to provide a snapshot of individual micro-targeted interventions and a macro-level view.

Project Number: 42489-043
Project Name: Water Supply and Sanitation Services Investment Program – Tranche 3
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It is difficult to establish accurate cost estimates due to the long MFF implementation timelines and the value of flexibility that is inherent in the MFF modality.

Project Number: 32298-013, 32298-073
Project Name: Madhya Pradesh Power Sector Investment Program (Tranche 6 and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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The level of internal government cooperation greatly affects the ability to address procurement and approval activities.

Project Number: 42489-043
Project Name: Water Supply and Sanitation Services Investment Program – Tranche 3
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While public-private partnerships (PPPs) can help improve service delivery, this is a greenfield for Uzbekistan in view of the newly drafted PPP law. Thus, simpler management contracting could have been the more viable option.

Project Number: 42489-043
Project Name: Water Supply and Sanitation Services Investment Program – Tranche 3
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The design of transmission and distribution projects at appraisal are usually preliminary and only finalized at the start of implementation; the multitranche financing facility (MFF) modality provides the flexibility needed to adjust the scope and latitude of these projects, if the program is built on a long-term plan by the implementing agency

Project Number: 32298-013, 32298-073
Project Name: Madhya Pradesh Power Sector Investment Program (Tranche 6 and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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