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Database and information systems should be designed with sufficient flexibility to be easily expandable to other river basins. Awareness raising and training can also help increase the chance for replication.

Project Number: 46257-001
Project Name: Strengthening Integrated Water Resources Management in Mountainous River Basins
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Surveys of beneficiary perceptions of the quality of outputs (such as plans, reports, workshops, training, and other communications) should be included in the design of the TA project. It is difficult to say much about the quality of outputs and their potential contribution to targeted outcomes without such feedback.

Project Number: 46257-001
Project Name: Strengthening Integrated Water Resources Management in Mountainous River Basins
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Targeted stakeholder consultation can help mobilize the broad-based support needed to implement a TA project with many different stakeholders. Such engagement can help to develop plans and guidelines that have broad-based support. This can facilitate approval and subsequent implementation of these plans. The quality of consultations might be enhanced by documenting stakeholder perceptions of consultative processes. Such perceptions may also provide evidence needed to assess national ownership and potential sustainability.

Project Number: 46257-001
Project Name: Strengthening Integrated Water Resources Management in Mountainous River Basins
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Careful documentation and dissemination of findings, manuals, and knowledge products are important steps in promoting future scaling up of TA project activities.

Project Number: 46257-001
Project Name: Strengthening Integrated Water Resources Management in Mountainous River Basins
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A combination of various types of capacity enhancement activities like reports, workshops, and communication tools helped in bringing together disparate national and regional stakeholders, and this helped with coordinating TA project implementation and building support for TA project outputs.

Project Number: 46257-001
Project Name: Strengthening Integrated Water Resources Management in Mountainous River Basins
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When changes are made to targeted knowledge products (e.g., combining knowledge products, not publishing products on the ADB website), the rational for these changes need to be analyzed and explained in M&E reports.

Project Number: 46257-001
Project Name: Strengthening Integrated Water Resources Management in Mountainous River Basins
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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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There are costs to coordinating the design and implementation of a project implemented across three countries with different priorities. There are also benefits from regional approaches in building networks and information and knowledge sharing, and some potential economies of scale in the use of consultants. It is important to be cognizant of, and assess, such costs and benefits. The justification for changes in targeted outputs (e.g., knowledge products) should be documented in project reports and the TCR.

Project Number: 46257-001
Project Name: Strengthening Integrated Water Resources Management in Mountainous River Basins
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Some measure of the uptake and/or utilization of core knowledge products is essential to assess the impact of knowledge products.

Project Number: 46257-001
Project Name: Strengthening Integrated Water Resources Management in Mountainous River Basins
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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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Collaborative consultations and flexibility in design are needed to address differing national priorities of three countries in a subregional project. Such collaboration needs to be sustained from design through implementation.

Project Number: 46257-001
Project Name: Strengthening Integrated Water Resources Management in Mountainous River Basins
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Strategies and plans supported by the TA project should include an assessment of the financial and resource implications of proposed reforms and or new institutional changes, and recommendations on strategies for financing the proposals. These plans, policies and/or strategies should include mechanisms for ongoing M&E of financing during implementation of any institutional changes proposed under the TA project.

Project Number: 46257-001
Project Name: Strengthening Integrated Water Resources Management in Mountainous River Basins
Report Date:
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Surveys of beneficiary perceptions of the quality of outputs (such as plans, reports, workshops, training, and other communications) should be included in the design of the TA project. It is difficult to say much about the quality of outputs and their potential contribution to targeted outcomes without such feedback. The development of easily accessible awareness-raising materials targeting decision makers in other river basins who are involved or interested in IWRM and RBO activities is a useful alternative to highly technical publications.

Project Number: 46257-001
Project Name: Strengthening Integrated Water Resources Management in Mountainous River Basins
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The TA enabled active collaboration among ADB, implementing agencies and the following institutions and international networks which added significant value to the TA’s outcome and outputs:(i) International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development - data collection for snow coverage in Afghanistan, and participation to give a lecture at regional workshop in Nepal.(ii) Water and Disaster Management Bureau, Ministry of Land,Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Japan - arrangement, lectures, and site visits for the study tour in Japan.(iii) NARBO and Japan Water Agency (JWA) - technic

Project Number: 46257-001
Project Name: Strengthening Integrated Water Resources Management in Mountainous River Basins
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ADB’s missions were effective in ensuring that the TA design/plan was in line with three governments’ needs, and also helped facilitate the three governments’ participation and ownership of the TA. During the TA project design and planning stage, ADB had two consultation and fact_x005F_x0002_finding missions in Bhutan and one consultation and fact-finding mission each in Afghanistan and Nepal.

Project Number: 46257-001
Project Name: Strengthening Integrated Water Resources Management in Mountainous River Basins
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