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To avoid unnecessary financing commitments and fund allocations, it is important to undertake a detailed needs assessment of all planned components. The project cost was 31% lower than estimated because of lower bid prices received under the international competitive bidding, the transfer of part of the project scope to another tranche project, and non-implementation of some project activities. ADB financing was 22% lower than its $50 million loan commitment.

Project Number: 47101-002
Project Name: Assam Power Sector Investment Program - Tranche 1
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To support an effective and sustainable exit strategy for beneficiaries, CCTs must strengthen the productive capacity of poor households. With the Philippines CCT law’s 7-year ceiling on duration of family participation,it will be important to communicate clearly with beneficiaries on their co-responsibilities and establish referral pathways.

Project Number: 43407-013
Project Name: Social Protection Support Project
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Building systems and organizational capacity is critical to the success of social assistance programs. Moving beyond a pilot to a national CCTprogram requires establishing project management structures, robust systems for information management, accountability mechanisms, and significant human resources. Despite impressive growth, the Philippines' CCT program faced challenges as it expanded nationally.

Project Number: 43407-013
Project Name: Social Protection Support Project
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A holistic project design is essential for increasing public health-care utilization. Ultimately, the project aimed at increasing public health-care utilization, which is influenced by both supply- and demand-side interventions. The interventions appropriately addressed the supply side through improvements in health facilities, equipment, and human resources.

Project Number: 44265-013
Project Name: Second Health Care in the Central Highlands Project
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Do not propose establishment of a new business continuity fund during crisis. The business continuity fund was established during the crisis. Actual usage was far less compared with existing instruments for concessional lending and refinancing, as operationalization took time. Unless such a fund can be established on time, proposing a new fund during a crisis should be avoided when good instruments are available.

Project Number: 54184-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Active Response and Expenditure Support Program
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Maintaining economic growth and protecting the vulnerable in crisis situations demand timely intervention and sizable stimulus package. The success of the government countercyclical program in maintaining economic growth and protecting vulnerable populations validated the effectiveness of the government’s approach.

Project Number: 54180-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Active Response and Expenditure Support Program
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Optimizing project scope and benefits requires careful analysis of the local context at design stage. Improved roads and market infrastructure resulted in more connected and vibrant rural communities and markets. This has brought moderate increases in household incomes in market catchment areas, but the project did not lead to an increase in agricultural production. The income effects also varied depending on the location and composition of livelihoods.

Project Number: 45084-002
Project Name: Coastal Climate-Resilient Infrastructure Project
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Spreading a project across a wide geographic areas creates additional coordination and administrative difficulties. The project had a wide coverage in southern Bangladesh where several subprojects were distributed across 12 districts, adding coordination and administrative burden to implementing agencies. The project could have selected fewer districts to reduce the implementation burden.

Project Number: 45084-002
Project Name: Coastal Climate-Resilient Infrastructure Project
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Strengthening social protection systems in advance, including benefit payment systems, poverty targeting systems, program registration systems, etc., is critical to be able to respond to shocks quickly when they happen. For example, Mongolia’s 100% electronic payment system for the universal child grants made it easy to transfer increased grants to recipients.

Project Number: 54214-001
Project Name: Shock-Responsive Social Protection Project
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While cash support is vital for immediate relief and consumption smoothing during a crisis, which in turn reduces the adoption of risky coping strategies—such as reducing food intake, selling assets, or borrowing—it is important during the post-crisis or recovery period to introduce programs that increase poor and vulnerable households’ resilience to future shocks.

Project Number: 54214-001
Project Name: Shock-Responsive Social Protection Project
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Within the context of promoting environmentally sustainable growth, it is worthwhile to identify and formulate projects that are environmentally positive rather than focusing on preventing negative environmental impacts. Such opportunities exist, especially in the agriculture, rural development, and environmental sector. Country programming missions could help identify these types of environmentally-positive projects.

Project Number: 45406-001
Project Name: Low Carbon Agricultural Support Project
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Ensuring the timely provision of counterpart funds reduces unnecessary implementation delays that could potentially lead to changes in project scope. Securing the financing and arrangements of counterpart funds at the outset avoids prolonged implementation of project activities. Specifically, adequate risk assessment of financing constraints and commitment of borrowers is essential for a more effective and smooth implementation.

Project Number: 42011-013
Project Name: Wuhan Urban Environmental Improvement Project
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Immediately prior to project approval, a final assessment of the project environment can help identify potential changes or revisions affecting the implementation of subprojects and their components. While scope changes may be unavoidable, the challenge is to proactively identify areas of concern where project circumstances may have already substantially changed prior to implementation affecting coverage of subprojects or components. For example, the higher performance standards brought in after approval for the wastewater treatment plant impacted its financial sustainability.

Project Number: 43054-013
Project Name: Hai River Estuary Area Pollution Control and Ecosystem Rehabilitation Project
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The use of a proven technology attractive to project participants can help ensure the attainment of development results. This project included two poorly prepared components—credit and technology transfer—one was not implemented at all and the other only achieved a portion of its targeted outputs. Having a tried and promising technology to promote is an important step toward project success.

Project Number: 45406-001
Project Name: Low Carbon Agricultural Support Project
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Identifying and preparing backup subprojects will help improve the implementation process, especially in an MFF program where cancellation and replacement of subprojects and/or scope adjustments are anticipated. This is particularly pertinent in rural areas where varying size and technical requirements and limited expertise and capabilities of local contractors present critical challenges in ensuring a subproject feasibility and readiness.

Project Number: 40423-053
Project Name: Rural Connectivity Investment Program (Tranche 3 and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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