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Demonstration of the benefits of the tools (such as the time and efficiency improvements from the SARD RS-GIS) can usefully encourage their wider uptake.

Project Number: 46470-001
Project Name: Action on Climate Change in South Asia
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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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SAOD added the importance of recognizing country processes in project management. Recognizing in-country protocols is crucial to working together successfully with partner national agencies.

Project Number: 46470-001
Project Name: Action on Climate Change in South Asia
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Procurement is critical in infrastructure projects, requiring preparation by project/program design consultants and close supervision by consultants, the government and executing agencies, and ADB. Subprojects suffered major delays because of weak procurement, leading to substantive time and cost overruns. Program implementation team from ADB should have been more proactive in assisting in the implementation of startup activities such as consultant recruitment and preparation of engineering designs.

Project Number: 34339-013
Project Name: Renewable Energy Development Sector Investment Program
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Incorporating type tests in the bidding documents for turnkey contracts can enhance contract execution efficiency.

Project Number: 37192-043
Project Name: Power Transmission Enhancement Investment Program - Tranche 3
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Use of large engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contracts can improve implementation efficiency.

Project Number: 37192-043
Project Name: Power Transmission Enhancement Investment Program - Tranche 3
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Ensuring adequate procurement capacity in executing and implementing agencies (EAs/IAs) may require a combination of consulting inputs and staff training.

Project Number: 37192-043
Project Name: Power Transmission Enhancement Investment Program - Tranche 3
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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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Overly prescriptive approaches limit the scope for adaptive management of livelihood restoration programs for project-affected people. Clear recognition of the many risks associated with implementing a complex project in partnership with a relatively inexperienced and limited-capacity government led to a concerted effort to “get everything right,” as it were, before the project even started. That is reflected in the negotiation of a comprehensive and highly detailed concession agreement, a 1,362-page legal document.

Project Number: 37734-013, 37910-014
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion - Nam Theun 2 Hydroelectric Project
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Continuity of actions and decisions is bolstered when there are regional coordination bodies to disseminate information and continue momentum.

Project Number: 45419-001
Project Name: SASEC Subregional Energy Efficiency Initiative
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Even if a TA does not fully complete its outputs and outcomes, the knowledge products produced and engagement with stakeholders can be taken forward by subsequent interventions.

Project Number: 45419-001
Project Name: SASEC Subregional Energy Efficiency Initiative
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For regional TAs, it is important to engage both regional stakeholders (such as SASEC), as well as to work in tandem with local stakeholders. Also, insights emerging from fact-finding missions are a useful means to undertake in-country consultations and engage local stakeholders.

Project Number: 45419-001
Project Name: SASEC Subregional Energy Efficiency Initiative
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It is important to avoid overly ambitious objectives in project design. The enhancement of biodiversity conservation in NNT-NPA was an overly ambitious objective. The area to be protected involved the entire watershed and an area downstream. Its size challenged the capability and capacity of a number of agencies to plan, implement, and sustain conservation requirements.

Project Number: 37734-013, 37910-014
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion - Nam Theun 2 Hydroelectric Project
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The validation disagrees with the TCR on its view of the TA’s rationale.The TCR and this validation are in agreement regarding the TA design and the need to improve the indicators. Another related lesson is that the indicators need to be selected such that they remain consistent with the logic of the results framework. The TCR is also candid about the need to have a realistic and achievable targets, particularly within the parameters of an SSTA.

Project Number: 45419-001
Project Name: SASEC Subregional Energy Efficiency Initiative
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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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