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Manageable and tightly focused reform agenda, incentives provided to the government to continue the reforms, and linking the program to the trade policy sector-wide approach all contributed to the successful project outcome.

Project Number: 38421-013, 38421-023, 38421-072
Project Name: Promoting Economic Diversification Program
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Efficient implementation of new concepts, like the regulatory impact assessment (RIA), should be directly supported by the government by way of mandatory participation to encourage short uptake times.

Project Number: 38421-013, 38421-023, 38421-072
Project Name: Promoting Economic Diversification Program
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The use of the cluster approach provides a framework for a 5-year partnership between ADB and government, giving sufficient time for reforms to take hold and capacity building to take place.

Project Number: 38421-013, 38421-023, 38421-072
Project Name: Promoting Economic Diversification Program
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It is important to balance policy-based lending and capacity building through project grants.

Project Number: 38421-013, 38421-023, 38421-072
Project Name: Promoting Economic Diversification Program
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Overly complex sanitary and phytosanitary standards technology grants pose challenges to potential participants.

Project Number: 38421-013, 38421-023, 38421-072
Project Name: Promoting Economic Diversification Program
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When it comes to mass drug administration programs, greater attention should be given to prophylaxis— especially in the Lao PDR with its high prevalence of helminth infection in rural areas. For remote and hard-to-reach areas, the best possible delivery mechanism for helminth prevention is yet to be identified.

Project Number: 41505-012
Project Name: Second Greater Mekong Subregion Regional Communicable Diseases Control Project
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Experienced and dedicated teams contribute to implementation success. The project largely inherited the oversight and management teams from ADB’s first GMS CDC project. Continuity of staff and consistency of support from ADB contributed significantly to the success of the project in achieving most of its outcome and outputs. The appointment of high-ranked officials as project directors ensured effective coordination and implementation of project activities.

Project Number: 41505-012
Project Name: Second Greater Mekong Subregion Regional Communicable Diseases Control Project
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Strong laboratory capacity and field epidemiology vital for rapid response. The project has appropriately targeted the strengthening of laboratory capacity and field epidemiology as essential for accurate early detection of disease outbreaks. These investments boosted the level of diagnostic preparedness, and the CLV countries rightly requested continued support in improving laboratory quality and building capacity in field epidemiology. The ongoing GMS Health Security Project continues to support these areas as well as hospital infection prevention and control.

Project Number: 41505-012
Project Name: Second Greater Mekong Subregion Regional Communicable Diseases Control Project
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Effective communicable disease control starts in the communities. Community preparedness to detect and respond to communicable disease outbreaks is crucial to effective CDC. The MHV model was a learning experience for public health and local leaders in this project. Through community participation, the local stakeholders who are most directly affected were empowered, which in turn encourages ownership and sustainability of the MHV concept.

Project Number: 41505-012
Project Name: Second Greater Mekong Subregion Regional Communicable Diseases Control Project
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Investments in regional cooperation are essential for health security. The ability of communicable diseases to cross international boundaries and affect large number of people demands a sustained and coordinated response among neighboring countries. The continued cooperation between the CLV countries provided a good practice for a coordinated response mechanism against this threat. The regional design enabled the sharing of knowledge, experiences, and resources and supported better data capture and timely information exchange, which are essential to CDC.

Project Number: 41505-012
Project Name: Second Greater Mekong Subregion Regional Communicable Diseases Control Project
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Opportunities for collaboration with development partners, the private sector, academic and research organizations, including International Fund for Agricultural Development, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and World Bank in cofinancing, knowledge sharing, policy dialogues, and south–south cooperation should be further explored.

Project Number: 39542-022
Project Name: Implementing the Greater Mekong Subregion Core Agriculture Support Program (Phase 2)
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There is a strong need for additional investments in GMS countries to produce SEAP in response to a growing demand from a rising number of GMS and non-GMS consumers.

Project Number: 39542-022
Project Name: Implementing the Greater Mekong Subregion Core Agriculture Support Program (Phase 2)
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It would have been useful to have spent more time at the beginning of the TA to understand the quality of baseline data in different pilot sites. This would have saved additional work that had to be carried out towards the end of the TA.

Project Number: 39542-022
Project Name: Implementing the Greater Mekong Subregion Core Agriculture Support Program (Phase 2)
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The TA promoted several public–private–community partnerships and benefitted from a broad network of partners, which contributed to bringing a large number of workshop participants and to getting rich inputs to improve the quality of the regional strategy on agro-value chains.

Project Number: 39542-022
Project Name: Implementing the Greater Mekong Subregion Core Agriculture Support Program (Phase 2)
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Gender has been mainstreamed in LOAs, but participation of women in capacity building activities was less than desired. Future efforts should target women as direct beneficiaries.

Project Number: 39542-022
Project Name: Implementing the Greater Mekong Subregion Core Agriculture Support Program (Phase 2)
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