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The choice of a multifinancing facility (MFF)\ as the financing modality for a proposed investment needs to be adequately justified, with due consideration of the fulfillment of preconditions, scope of tranches, and the extent to which an MFF would generate potential value addition in terms of efficiency, portfolio performance, and development results as compared to standalone project-based loans.

Project Number: 37139-023
Project Name: Uttaranchal Power Sector Investment Program - Tranche 1
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Safeguards compliance is best promoted through regular monitoring and audit

Project Number: 42394-022
Project Name: Nuku'alofa Urban Development Sector Project
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Robust safeguards implementation is valuable not only in preserving natural, social, and cultural resources but also as a tool to engage well with communities and facilitate project execution.

Project Number: 40173-043
Project Name: Highlands Region Road Improvement Investment Program - Project 2
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It is important to establish a standalone environmental safeguards unit (ESU) right at project inception to focus on and coordinate safeguards compliance activities in ADB-financed projects.

Project Number: 42394-022
Project Name: Nuku'alofa Urban Development Sector Project
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As with other contractors, it is important for ADB to ensure that community organizations engaged in civil works understand and comply with ADB safeguard requirements

Project Number: 46094-001
Project Name: Neighborhood Upgrading and Shelter Project (Phase 2)
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Land acquisition and resettlement (LAR) challenges, often complex and dynamic, must be promptly and robustly addressed.

Project Number: 43032-013
Project Name: Xi'an Urban Road Network Improvement Project
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Policy-based operations can achieve better outcomes by using a limited number of more focused, carefully sequenced, high-impact reforms.

Project Number: 48134-001, 48134-006, 48134-007
Project Name: Stepping Up Investments for Growth Acceleration Program (Subprograms 1, 2, 3)
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Early implementation of a pragmatic approach to land acquisition and compensation payments and incorporation of simplified payment procedures into the land acquisition and resettlement plans (LARPs) will be beneficial for future ADB-financed greenfield projects in Pakistan.

Project Number: 40075-023, 40075-033, 40075-043
Project Name: National Trade Corridor Highway Investment Program (Tranche 3 and MFF)
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A pragmatic approach to land acquisition, informed by good practices from projects involving multiple agencies, both federal and provincial, will be particularly important and beneficial for future ADB-financed greenfield projects in Pakistan.

Project Number: 40075-033
Project Name: National Trade Corridor Highway Investment Program, Tranche 2
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Timely mobilization of an external monitor with access to project sites and affected households will provide an additional layer to ensuring safeguards compliance.

Project Number: 39500-013, 39500-023, 39500-033
Project Name: Ho Chi Minh City Urban Mass Rapid Transit Line 2 Investment Program (MFF and Tranches 1 and 2)
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Continuous and close coordination, coupled with good working relationships between the ADB and executing agency (EA) project staff, are essential to the successful completion of projects.

Project Number: 38560-022
Project Name: Second Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project
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Establishing a realistic resettlement implementation schedule and allowing adequate time to consult with affected persons are essential to reducing the resettlement risks in urban projects.

Project Number: 44021-013
Project Name: Integrated Development of Key Townships in Central Liaoning
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Safeguards documentation is crucial to the effective functioning of ADB’s accountability mechanism.

Project Number: 37269-013, 37269-023
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion: Rehabilitation of the Railway in Cambodia
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ADB should ensure adequate government allocations for land acquisition and resettlement (LAR) and tighten its monitoring and oversight to keep in check safeguards noncompliance and implementation delays

Project Number: 42039-034
Project Name: Power Transmission Investment Program - Tranche 1
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Although challenging, meeting the social safeguards requirements of complex sector projects with scattered subprojects is possible with the right elements.

Project Number: 38594-013
Project Name: Guiyang Integrated Water Resources Management (Sector) Project
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