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Lesson
This validation has rephrased the recommendation into a lesson as follows: Providing adequate visibility to partners who have either financed the project or have special interest and stake in seeing its success is necessary to ensure their continued support.

Project Number: 48143-001
Project Name: Enhancing Association of Southeast Asian Nations Capital Market Integration
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Lesson
This validation also offers this lesson: Shifting government priorities is a common risk in projects and should be identified in the TA report. Further, risk mitigation measures should be identified to smoothen the implementation of a TA.

Project Number: 48218-007
Project Name: Support for Value Chain Development under the Nepal Agriculture Development Strategy
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Lesson
No TCR lesson. In finalizing this validation report, the NRM added a new lesson: The involvement and coordination among development partners during the transition to a new form of government enhances the groundwork for complementary interventions and co-sharing opportunities. Nepal has a well_x005F_x0002_functioning development partners group on agriculture, which meets regularly on a monthly basis. The TA concept, and subsequent change in scope were presented to the group and their feedback incorporated, as appropriate.

Project Number: 48218-007
Project Name: Support for Value Chain Development under the Nepal Agriculture Development Strategy
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Lesson
This is a description of outputs and does not constitute a lesson. During the finalization of this validation, SARC provided another lesson: Partnership and working on related initiatives with donors and other ADB TAs promote leveraging of available financing to maximize results and enhance cross-learning.

Project Number: 45396-001
Project Name: South Asia Economic Integration Partnership
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Lesson
Agreed. A useful lesson is the importance of partnering with other knowledge institutions to tap expertise and efficiently use financial resources.

Project Number: 47146-001
Project Name: Macroeconomic Modelling for Improved Economic Assessment
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Lesson
Another internal lesson could be that when introducing additional funding midway through implementation—such as the TASF in this project—the TA needs to closely plan and monitor activities so that the overall TA project implementation is not delayed.

Project Number: 48206-001
Project Name: Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (Phase 2)
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Lesson
The key lesson for ADB is to assess partner capacity and provide detailed guidance on operational procedures to manage expectations and to make the partnership effective.

Project Number: 48206-001
Project Name: Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (Phase 2)
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Lesson
Close collaboration with a specialized funding agency can help achieve a TA’s objective, by helping to mobilize scarce specialized technical expertise with the contacts needed to build support for change

Project Number: 50055-001
Project Name: Creating a Regional Settlement Intermediary in ASEAN+3: Cross-Border Settlement Infrastructure Forum
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Lesson
SAOD highlighted further the importance of developing strategic partnerships in advancing climate change solutions. Leveraging knowledge partnerships with key centers of excellence (e.g., APEC Climate Center) will be a crucial feature in the continuous enhancement of climate data and information for the SARD RS-GIS web-based Climate and Disaster Risk Resilience Decision Support System.

Project Number: 46470-001
Project Name: Action on Climate Change in South Asia
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Lesson
This has not been presented clearly as a lesson. The TCR noted that partnerships with other regional technical institutions, such as the APEC Climate Center and SAARC, but did not elaborate on how this was used in building a wider collaborative effort in the region. This validation notes that consideration should be given as to whether and how these institutional partnerships will be sustained beyond the TA.

Project Number: 46470-001
Project Name: Action on Climate Change in South Asia
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Lesson
Implementation of IWRMs require substantial financial resources. It is important for TA support to assess these needs and to develop strategies to finance the implementation of the plans.

Project Number: 46257-001
Project Name: Strengthening Integrated Water Resources Management in Mountainous River Basins
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Lesson
River basin planning requires the development of information sharing networks at national and regional levels. Regional study tours and participation in national and regional workshops and networking events can help facilitate the building of such networks. There is a need for learning outcomes of such events to be documented and participant evaluations undertaken and analyzed to assess effectiveness and justify investments in such activities.

Project Number: 46257-001
Project Name: Strengthening Integrated Water Resources Management in Mountainous River Basins
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Lesson
Working with and through regional forums like the SASEC EWG is important to endorse and help to progress complex regional cooperation agendas such as EE.

Project Number: 45419-001
Project Name: SASEC Subregional Energy Efficiency Initiative
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Lesson
Myanmar’s inclusion the regional transmission master plan was a new partnership that had not previously been anticipated. When determining the project’s scope, the inclusion of stakeholders could consider additional players, which may not be currently engaged in regional partnerships. Such expansion can harness new opportunities for trade.

Project Number: 47107-001
Project Name: South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation CrossBorder Power Trade Development
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Lesson
External NDF cofinancing and GCF climate finance partnerships were referenced here, and lessons provided were very broad, and not supported by evidence in the TCR. Internal ADB partnerships were not mentioned in the TCR, which would be important for encouraging broader adoption and sustainability of respective DMCs’ TA efforts via the country dialogue processes.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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