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Getting stakeholders’ feedback is vital to ensuring commitment to reforms.

Project Number: 46220-001
Project Name: Infrastructure Sustainability Support Program
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Continued consultations within ADB relevant units enriches the formulation of a policy reform agenda.

Project Number: 46220-002
Project Name: Infrastructure Sustainability Support Program
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Policy−based loans (PBLs) have a comparative advantage of providing ADB and partner governments a platform for high−level policy dialogue, which otherwise would be difficult to achieve.

Project Number: 46220-003
Project Name: Infrastructure Sustainability Support Program
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Consideration of the relationships and coordination practice among key agencies strengthens the feasibility of implementation arrangements.

Project Number: 41013-013
Project Name: Thanh Hoa City Comprehensive Socioeconomic Development Project
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Local governments in Viet Nam’s secondary towns and cities have high implementation capacity.

Project Number: 41013-013
Project Name: Thanh Hoa City Comprehensive Socioeconomic Development Project
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Recruitment of consulting firms by a government agency in Viet Nam is time-consuming.

Project Number: 41013-013
Project Name: Thanh Hoa City Comprehensive Socioeconomic Development Project
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Reliable cost estimates are essential to smooth project implementation.

Project Number: 41013-013
Project Name: Thanh Hoa City Comprehensive Socioeconomic Development Project
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Cofinancing could reduce flexibility.

Project Number: 41013-013
Project Name: Thanh Hoa City Comprehensive Socioeconomic Development Project
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Setting policy reforms as conditions for fund releases provides a useful incentive for advance reform actions.

Project Number: 47318-001
Project Name: Strengthened Fiscal Sustainability Program
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TA enhances the sustainability of the reform process.

Project Number: 47318-001
Project Name: Strengthened Fiscal Sustainability Program
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Grants are particularly useful in providing immediate fiscal relief to small and fragile economies.

Project Number: 47318-001
Project Name: Strengthened Fiscal Sustainability Program
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Financing requirements for the project should have been firmed up from the beginning considering that there were other cofinanciers. It took some time before the EU actually signed the contribution agreement with ADB and this was identified by the midterm review mission as one issue for the project. While it was anticipated that the EU would sign the agreement by June 2011, it was signed only in 2012. This caused delays in the implementation of specific subprojects to be funded out of the EU contribution.

Project Number: 43381-012
Project Name: Second Road Improvement (Sector) Project
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A thorough evaluation of the executing agency capacity’s, especially in providing the required counterpart staff. This is to maximize the knowledge and skills transfer from the consultants to the national staff, and to enable the national staff to manage future projects and maintain existing infrastructures. Under the project, MID was unable to mobilize the required number of counterpart staff resulting in the national consultants assuming their roles in the project.

Project Number: 43381-012
Project Name: Second Road Improvement (Sector) Project
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The accident rate on the project roads was an indicator for the achievement of the project outcome. However, data were unavailable and improvements in road safety could not be assessed quantitatively. The appraisal design should have arranged a way of obtaining accident data.

Project Number: 41656-012
Project Name: Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Northern Greater Mekong Subregion Transport Network Improvement Project
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Emphasizes the value of undertaking a comprehensive baseline study in the project management cycle and a not too complicated and ambitious project design.

Project Number: 37530-013
Project Name: Rural Development Project
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