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No new lessons.

Project Number: 38074-013
Project Name: Kashkadarya and Navoi Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project
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The CPTL project itself offers a meaningful demonstration effect. It was well constructed and delivered electricity on time and to agreed specifications, in turn allowing EDC to deliver electricity to its customers. Under the PPA, EGAT delivers electricity to EDC via CPTL as agreed. EDC meets its contractual payment obligations to EGAT and CPTL. EAC monitors tariffs and licensees, allowing project benefits to be passed on to the end-users in the form of lower tariffs.

Project Number: 40914-015
Project Name: (Cambodia) Power Transmission Lines Co., Ltd., Power Transmission Project
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Although one of the key features of project design was that urban projects need an integrated approach and infrastructure alone cannot result in improved services, unless capacities, resources, and systems are in place to sustainably deliver these services—the project design failed to ensure that all project stakeholders shared this view and were committed to it. Stakeholder analysis and ways to ensure the commitment of stakeholders to project design initiatives is thus recommended.

Project Number: 23213-013
Project Name: Southern Punjab Basic Urban Services Project
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No new lessons.

Project Number: 34276-013
Project Name: Information Technology Development Project
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Emergency power plans are outdated. An accident resulted in a 4-day power outage for Siem Reap. In times of grid outages, Siem Reap is served by EDC’s 10.5 MW diesel-powered plant combined with individually owned generator sets that run on diesel and fuel oil. Those who depend on EDC for power suffer rolling brown-outs, but the many people and small businesses that are not connected to the EDC plant and have no individual backup generators face total blackout, i.e., these people have no power at all, and often, no water.

Project Number: 40914-020
Project Name: (Cambodia) Power Transmission Lines Co., Ltd., Power Transmission Project
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Technical assistance can be better targeted and made more efficient if support needed during implementation at different stages and levels can be identified upfront. A program administration memorandum would have been useful.

Project Number: 36155-013
Project Name: Private Participation in Infrastructure Program
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Long-term sector engagement facilitated the enabling environment. ADB’s long-term focus on energy sector development has contributed to the improving electrification rates in Cambodia. Since 1992, ADB’s country strategy for Cambodia has always prioritized the energy sector (in coordination with other donors, especially the World Bank, and aligned with government interest). These efforts contributed to the 2001 Electricity Law that codified the sector's regulatory agencies. Confidence in the regulator is a key element of private sector participation in the sector.

Project Number: 40914-014
Project Name: (Cambodia) Power Transmission Lines Co., Ltd., Power Transmission Project
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It is noted that the project analysis tended to focus on supply-side interventions with inadequate attention to thedemand side. The assumptions and risks identified in project design mention the assumption that external degree students will recognize the quality and convenience of Distance Education Partnership Program (DEPP) distance learning, but all other assumptions and risks focus on supply-side issues. In a market intervention of this kind, both supply and demand need equal attention.

Project Number: 33251-013
Project Name: Distance Education Modernization Project
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Guardrails might mitigate against transmission line accidents. The CPTL line runs along regional highways on government-owned rights of way and by necessity the poles are close to the road. During the evaluation mission there was a vehicle accident that required 10 poles to be replaced. Although nobody was hurt in the accident and the coordinated CPTL–EDC emergency response plan was very effective, Siem Reap was without grid power for 4 days. One possible mitigation of such a risk might be guardrails along the road.

Project Number: 40914-019
Project Name: (Cambodia) Power Transmission Lines Co., Ltd., Power Transmission Project
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Complex projects such as this require consistent and close follow-up and coordination among the involved government agencies and departments and offices within ADB. It would be more catalytic and demonstrational if the setting up of policies, systems, and procedures were accompanied by the development of pilot projects especially in local government.

Project Number: 36155-013
Project Name: Private Participation in Infrastructure Program
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The government’s commitment and ability to implement the institutional development and capacity development (particularly in procurement, loan and contract administration, disbursement processes, monitoring and evaluation mechanisms, periodic reporting, and social and environmental safeguards) could have been carefully reviewed. A flexible approach could have been adopted with adequate supervision support for sector specialists in capacity development activities. Discussions at the technical level should have led to higherlevel discussion as the proposed reforms were far-reaching.

Project Number: 32058-013
Project Name: Road Sector Development Program
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Cautionary note on the effectiveness and efficiency of project designs that attempt to combine program loans to promote PPP environment and capital markets development with project finance facilities to invest in specific projects, particularly when they involve wholesale loans to financial institution intermediaries.

Project Number: 34262-013
Project Name: Private Sector Infrastructure Facility at State Level Project
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No new lessons.

Project Number: 31296-013
Project Name: West Zone Power System Development Project
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Development projects can influence local people in work principles and have a significant benefit on local communities at little cost. Before the project, few people left their communities in search of jobs. Now most young people do, and over 30% of migrants are female.

Project Number: 39652-023
Project Name: Gansu Heihe Rural Hydropower Development Investment Program– Erlongshan Hydropower Project
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No new lessons.

Project Number: 36357-013
Project Name: Financial Markets Program for Private Sector Development
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