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In addition, conducting a midterm review provides opportunities for TA projects, particularly, cluster TA projects to improve its design, implementation, and monitoring of progress. This was a missed opportunity during the implementation of this cluster RETA. Data and findings from these reviews could have been maximized by ADB. Review findings could have not only fed into the design of subproject 2 but also to the overall design of the cluster RETA. This can result in better monitoring, particularly providing quantitative evidence on the achievements of the cluster RETA.

Project Number: 44174-022
Project Name: Support for Implementing the Action Plan for Transport and Trade Facilitation in the Greater Mekong Subregion (Subprojects 1 and 2)
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Additionally, this validation notes that feasible technical solutions that support national needs are critical to getting buy-in and ownership. For instance, some of the final reports for Bangladesh and Bhutan were produced in collaboration with national partners. It is missing from the TCR a description of the issues that led to including the DMF’s third outcome indicator in the DMF, or to managing lessons arising from a substantial increase in budget mid-way through implementation.

Project Number: 46470-001
Project Name: Action on Climate Change in South Asia
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This is a useful lesson learned. Ensuring a clear implementation structure and limiting the number of implementing agencies help avoid implementation delays and changes to outputs.

Project Number: 48040-001
Project Name: Export- and Innovation-Led Industrial Development
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In finalizing this validation report, SAOD revised the lesson in the TCR and highlighted that considering country context in designing activities is important. Identifying in-country activities requires close collaboration with concerned national government agencies, and building upon similar past and current initiatives or mechanisms.

Project Number: 46470-001
Project Name: Action on Climate Change in South Asia
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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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This is a useful recommendation and applicable for future TAs. Rephrasing it into a lesson learned: Planning a realistic timeframe for the selection of consultants is critical to avoid any implementation delays.

Project Number: 52320-001
Project Name: Preliminary Assessment for Dili Airport Runway Project Upgrading Project
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Fact-finding missions that reveal additional risks or incorrect assumptions can be used as opportunities for course corrections.

Project Number: 45419-001
Project Name: SASEC Subregional Energy Efficiency Initiative
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The first sentence lacks clarity and could be directly stated. TA teams could explore different modalities (e.g., cluster TAs) as a way to align subproject outputs, outcomes, and impacts. A lesson that can be learned here is that: Bringing together representatives from all over the PRC and from other countries is possible, and together, they could replicate the models and frameworks generated through the TA.

Project Number: 48469-001
Project Name: Developing Gross Ecosystem Product Accounting for Eco-Compensation
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Hiring national experts from DMCs is important considering their local knowledge and the contributions they can give to efficient implementation by virtue of their being on the ground.

Project Number: 45419-001
Project Name: SASEC Subregional Energy Efficiency Initiative
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TORs should be realistic in setting out the qualification criteria for consultants, particularly when these require specific specializations (e.g., complex energy sector issues).

Project Number: 45419-001
Project Name: SASEC Subregional Energy Efficiency Initiative
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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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The TCR missed the opportunity to extract lessons on implementation and/or delivery, especially on how the time extension could have been avoided.

Project Number: 50006-001
Project Name: Poverty Reduction in Liupanshan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region
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The importance of a focused EA and committed consultants is a valid, but well-known lesson. Another lesson could be: Delays in the completion of TA may not matter so long as there are no cost overruns, and the knowledge produced is of high quality and useful to ongoing and planned operations.

Project Number: 42173-014
Project Name: Strengthening Monitoring and Enforcement in the Meghna River for Dhaka's Sustainable Water Supply
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Reforms should be embedded in government institutions that can take ownership and ensure that these will last beyond the life of the TA project.

Project Number: 48033-001
Project Name: Enhancing Road Safety for Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Member Countries
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As this validation mentions, there is a need for government counterpart(s) to make an in-kind contribution so they have a “stake” in the results.

Project Number: 48033-001
Project Name: Enhancing Road Safety for Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Member Countries
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