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It is important for the project management unit to have local presence and partnerships established in the areas where the project is to be developed, and representatives with local language ability. This will facilitate project design both through local knowledge of existing community needs and also through stronger stakeholder engagement, consultation, and acceptance of the project.

Project Number: 49325-003
Project Name: Northern Province Sustainable Fisheries Development Project
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Well-defined targets for design and monitoring (DMF) indicators along with formulation of appropriate indicators’ baseline year and target values per year strengthen project design. A statement of percentage growth does not allow for a proper measurement of achievement. For example, the project DMF stated that at least 90% of selected flood protection and irrigation structures reconstructed and made more resilient by 2018”. However, it did not state the baseline and target values of the corresponding indicators and were not measurable.

Project Number: 49038-001
Project Name: Flood Emergency Reconstruction and Resilience Project
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The marginal financial viability of the project suggests the need for improved direct cost recovery over time. Tariffs under the project were estimated to average less than 1% of household incomes compared to an estimated 3%–5% in other regional countries, indicating the potential for affordable adjustments. Higher tariffs would not only improve the financial viability of such investments but also encourage private sector participation in the sector.

Project Number: 42011-013
Project Name: Wuhan Urban Environmental Improvement Project
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Related to the size, complexity, and length of the project phases and the need to ascertain if these were effective in the project area: the project results support the effectiveness of long-term investment in one area as a multisector support through infrastructure. However, there was limited evidence in the completion report regarding the project’s effect on poverty levels and the rate of improvement compared to other areas.

Project Number: 37097-013
Project Name: Integrated Rural Development Sector Project in the Central Provinces
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Properly defining technical parameters ensures successful project implementation. The required equipment for end terminals, estimated to cost $0.5 million, was omitted from the pertinent package; thus the $29.1 million investment was idle. The target annual power generation of 60 gigawatt-hours was an overestimate as it required securing agreements for purchasing 40% of the output of the private sector’s biomass power projects and an optimistic utilization factor of 70% of the run-of-river HPPs.

Project Number: 41504-023
Project Name: Town Electrification Investment Program - Tranche 1
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Gender trainings are a must in ADB first-time projects. This was the first project funded by ADB in Chuxiong prefecture. As such, trainings on Gender equality and the project's Gender action (GAP) plan were needed to promote Gender awareness, develop understanding, and build capacities for GAP implementation. The trainings and overall design of GAP proved relevant and contributed to achieving overall project objectives.

Project Number: 45507-003
Project Name: Yunnan Chuxiong Urban Environment Improvement Project
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High staff turnover, weak procurement and contract management capacities, and lack of familiarity with ADB procedures, often the cause of implementation delays, need to be addressed jointly by ADB and government counterpart agencies. Because of the changes in the executing agency’s senior-level officials, turnover of the project staff was high. The project also suffered from counterpart agencies' weak procurement and contract management capacity and lack of familiarity with ADB guidelines.

Project Number: 43007-023
Project Name: Higher Education Reform Project
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Trainings and in-person support are needed to strengthen financial management performance and full compliance, especially in cases where the government agencies are handling ADB projects for the first-time. As the first ADB project the Secretariat of State for Vocational Training and Employment (SEFOPE) oversaw, more thorough trainings and in-person support could have strengthened financial management performance and full compliance with the grant covenants.

Project Number: 45139-001
Project Name: Mid-Level Skills Training Project
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Repeated and progressive training and continuous practice are effective in promoting mastery and proficient use of the environmental and social management system (ESMS). The ESMS was a new concept for the executing and implementing agencies, and its implementation depended on the gradual accumulation of knowledge and experience from learning and practice. The financial intermediaries’ successful incorporation of the ESMS into their business was largely attributable to robust training and practice.

Project Number: 47046-002
Project Name: Gansu Featured Agriculture and Financial Services System Development Project
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The CPRO experience highlighted three main lessons. First, it confirmed Mongolia's solid precrisis record in structural reforms and macroeconomics, which put the country in a strong position to effectively respond to the multifarious impact of the pandemic. Second, the fast approval of the CPRO policy and lending modality enabled ADB to provide critical emergency support to eligible client countries in times of exceptional need, clearly showcasing the importance of institutional

Project Number: 54174-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Rapid Response Program
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The government's response to the pandemic was comprehensive and effective. It provided a policy framework through the National Emergency Response Plan, and identified a set of concrete measures, associated expenditures, and financing plan which it brought together under the countercyclical expenditure development plan. The expenditure development plan further combined revenue and expenditure measures shown by international experience to be effective in safeguarding fiscal sustainability.

Project Number: 54174-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Rapid Response Program
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ADB's long standing engagement in the country, especially in the health and public finance sectors and in fiscal and macroeconomic policy developed its readiness to respond effectively and quickly. The One ADB approach and the application of the streamlined business processes under the CPRO policy also worked well for Mongolia, as it clearly demonstrated that cutting several bureaucratic layers in the approval process does not necessarily compromise the quality of the end product.

Project Number: 54174-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Rapid Response Program
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Projects that introduce new technologies require realistic timelines for design. Familiarization and adoption of new technologies, completion of trial runs, and commercial production take time, and this needs to be accounted in project design

Project Number: 45273-001
Project Name: Financing Brick Kiln Efficiency Improvement Project
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For a project that involve associated infrastructure that are not part of the project scope (although serves as a prerequisite to the project outputs such as a planned power plant to which the transmission lines under the project will be directly connected), it is critical to conduct more thorough and in-depth due diligence work to evaluate the feasibility and the uncertainties associated with the realization of such nfrastructure. Where possible, loan disbursements and procurement activities should be

Project Number: 37139-053
Project Name: Uttarakhand Power Sector Investment Program (Tranche 4 and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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Midterm review is a key opportunity for course correction and review of the project design. This opportunity was not fully exploited and design flaws in the DMF remained until the project completion. T

Project Number: 38254-043
Project Name: MFF - North Karnataka Urban Sector Investment Program - Tranche 2
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