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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
For a development project with such apparently clear potential economic benefits, it would be helpful for the TCR to provide clearer evidence as to why the operation was dropped and why mitigation did not occur in a timely manner.

Project Number: 46374-001
Project Name: Southern Highways Investment Program
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Lesson
The political economy is a key consideration and can result in significant delays especially if counterpart capacity is low.

Project Number: 48206-001
Project Name: Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (Phase 2)
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Lesson
As continued financing of gender-projects can be a challenge, a key lesson for ADB is to consider options for financing continued support to sub-projects including from other ADB TA resources. ADB teams could also prepare solid gender project financing proposals and market these to other donors so that these can be scaled up

Project Number: 48206-001
Project Name: Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (Phase 2)
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Lesson
This is a valid lesson. In addition, when extending or amending a TA, clear articulation of changes in expected outcomes should be provided.

Project Number: 46374-001
Project Name: Southern Highways Investment Program
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Lesson
A lesson learned from the non-take up of this specific ADB investment loan upon the change in government is that government participation and buy-in is important for planning continuity at times when elections are to be held. Thinking ahead about the possibility of regime change can be an important part of investment planning

Project Number: 46374-001
Project Name: Southern Highways Investment Program
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Lesson
To avoid risk of failure, an umbrella TA should balance out the risk in the portfolio between highly innovative yet risky activities and those with firm disbursement schedules.

Project Number: 48206-001
Project Name: Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (Phase 2)
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The TCR should have provided a brief historical context of ADB’s engagement in the South Super Highway—the previous project had an extensive safeguards problem, and an issue with parallel bilateral agency funds. Despite that, ADB continued to engage in the same sector in the same region. However, differing political priorities of subsequent national leadership changed the course of the TA. The TCR could have elaborated how ADB should assess the political risks in starting or conceptualizing a similar loan in a sector that experienced prior difficulties.

Project Number: 46374-001
Project Name: Southern Highways Investment Program
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Lesson
The main lesson is that better planning of consultancy needs can help in more timely recruitment of international and national consultants. In this case, delays in start-up of TASF activities, and non-extension of the Future Cities Program to which TA project was linked, impacted project disbursement. Consultancy overcommitments subsequently required reallocation of cost categories under the TA project.

Project Number: 48206-001
Project Name: Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (Phase 2)
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Lesson
Another lesson could be that regional conferences and study tours can also be a useful way to engage stakeholders, rather than relying on a one-way flow of information through dissemination of knowledge products.

Project Number: 48206-001
Project Name: Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (Phase 2)
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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
The TCR could have commented on what lessons can be derived from the TA coordination unit model, which is a unit located in Manila that engages with national consultants based in countries.

Project Number: 46470-001
Project Name: Action on Climate Change in South Asia
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Lesson
SAOD added that exposure to local knowledge is important. First-hand experience and exposure to realities at the local or community level is vital in promoting knowledge in designing climate change adaptation and mitigation measures or policies.

Project Number: 46470-001
Project Name: Action on Climate Change in South Asia
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Lesson
The TCR noted that the approach of aligning with existing collaborative partnerships, and of building on similar initiatives, contributed to successful implementation. In fact, this is standard practice for ADB’s engagement with DMCs due to its official bearings. Instead, the TCR could have drawn out a lesson on how this was specific to a regional TA.

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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