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Post-project monitoring and evaluation systems need to be designed for the project during the planning phase to ensure ongoing innovation and sustainability of the project impacts.

Project Number: 32193-013
Project Name: Northwest Crop Diversification Project
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A key success of a reform program is the relevant design that incentivizes strong government ownership on institutional strengthening, in this case, by improving bank's operational management: supporting profitable business lines such as pawning, tightening credit reviews and recoveries to reduce nonperforming loans (NPL), and controlling overhead costs such as reducing headcounts to improve performance on a per employee basis.

Project Number: 36357-013
Project Name: Financial Markets Program for Private Sector Development
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Furthermore, it is prudent to minimize the number of legislative actions to ensure effective program implementation. The program had an excessive number of legislative actions that contributed to program implementation delays. In addition, a salient feature of this program is the transparent and effective approach to monitoring the restructuring of a bank. This feature can be applied to other similar entities.

Project Number: 36357-013
Project Name: Financial Markets Program for Private Sector Development
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The timing of a program is crucial to the effectiveness of its outputs and outcomes. Difficulties to obtain approvals of the numerous legislative actions in this program could be traced to the change of government (and the fact that the government did not hold a majority of seats in the Parliament). The program's achievements of performance targets benefited from the eventual improvement of the political and economic landscape from 2009 onwards.

Project Number: 36357-013
Project Name: Financial Markets Program for Private Sector Development
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Match ADB staff skills to specific project needs. When supporting the development of a new industry in a challenging environment, project administration needs to be particularly vigilant and carried out by ADB officers with strong expertise in the area. Stakeholders noted that the performance of ADB improved when staff had expertise in the microfinance sector and were actively involved in the implementation of the project.

Project Number: 32472-013
Project Name: Microfinance and Employment Project
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ADB program designs should include a more strategic approach to marketing the benefits of PPI frameworks to the public, the private sector, and government.

Project Number: 36155-013
Project Name: Private Participation in Infrastructure Program
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Timely reviews, earlier solutions, lower costs. A major project redesign followed a midterm review. While the changes contributed significantly to the success of the project, this review occurred came fairly late - in 2005, compared with the original closing date of 2006. Had this review taken place earlier, the project might have been able to achieve its outcomes earlier and at lower cost.

Project Number: 32472-013
Project Name: Microfinance and Employment Project
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Not housing the PIU within the executing agency reduced oversight and transparency.

Project Number: 32472-013
Project Name: Microfinance and Employment Project
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Experience with the implementing agencies suggests that regular and persistent communication with ADB staff in Manila, with implementing agencies, and the resident mission are critical to keeping the program on track.

Project Number: 36155-013
Project Name: Private Participation in Infrastructure Program
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Efficient reporting and data collection essential. The project implementing unit (PIU) did not allocate sufficient time to reporting and data collection during implementation, which impacted negatively on the ability of ADB and the microfinance steering committee to administer the project effectively.

Project Number: 32472-013
Project Name: Microfinance and Employment Project
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Establishment of PPI frameworks needs to be accompanied by the development of 'pathfinder projects' that may be prepackaged in line with good international practice, and protected from special interest interference.

Project Number: 36155-013
Project Name: Private Participation in Infrastructure Program
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Outputs that are prerequisites for other outputs need to have a technical assistance dedicated to them upfront.

Project Number: 36155-013
Project Name: Private Participation in Infrastructure Program
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Realistic design key in conditions of uncertainty. When a project seeks to develop a nascent industry in a challenging environment, outputs need to be realistic. The project design relied on assumptions about the state of and potential for development in the microfinance industry that proved to be unrealistic. The project redesign highlights the need to be flexible in adapting the project to emerging realities and experiences in the industry.

Project Number: 32472-013
Project Name: Microfinance and Employment Project
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Proper sequencing and program readiness. Proper sequencing of program activities is essential to ensure success. In the case of the Small and Medium Enterprise Sector Development Program (SMESDP), gaps in program readiness led to delays in its implementation. As discussed in para. 8, adoption of a two-step approach would have been more appropriate; first, the technical assistance (TA) loan to prepare the outputs needed and recommendations for implementation, followed by a second step of putting the SMESDP in place to implement the recommendations of the TA loan.

Project Number: 35225-013
Project Name: Small and Medium Enterprise Sector Development Program
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Trade policy should include measures that increase the benefits to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from trade, including measures to make it administratively easy to obtain certificates of rules of origin, an outreach strategy to help SMEs on trade policy developments and utilization of preferential trade agreements, and implementation of intellectual property rights that could benefit SMEs, such as geographical indications (regional trademarks).

Project Number: 35304-032, 35304-045
Project Name: Private Sector and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Development Program Cluster (Subprograms I and II)
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