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Not applicable. The TA did not involve agencies other than the executing agency, KEGOC, and the consultant and/or contractor. The TA was financed by the Clean Energy Fund under the Clean Energy Financing Partnership Facility.

Project Number: 50318-001
Project Name: Fostering the Development of Renewable Energy
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The TA required close supervision from ADB to ensure smooth cooperation between the executing agency and the consultants. It is also important for ADB to promptly make necessary changes to the consulting team. DIgSILENT GmbH’s team leaders were replaced twice. The first team leader resigned from the company due to his dependent’s illness. The second team leader was replaced by the firm’s Managing Director due to the increasing complexity towards the last phase of the TA.

Project Number: 50318-001
Project Name: Fostering the Development of Renewable Energy
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Financing project contingencies through counterpart funds can encourage better utilization of loan and grant proceeds.

Project Number: 43456-023
Project Name: Power Sector Improvement Project
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Since PowerFactory became the primary system planning platform, KEGOC is planning to procure additional licenses and modules from DIgSILENT in 2020 using its own resources.

Project Number: 50318-001
Project Name: Fostering the Development of Renewable Energy
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During project appraisal, more attention needs to be given to preparing moderate base cost estimates and reflecting in the contingency provisions the currency and market risks/

Project Number: 39419-013
Project Name: Clean Energy and Access Improvement Project
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The project lacked focus as it included interventions in several key areas; a less ambitious results framework and reasonable implementation schedule would have brought more success.

Project Number: 39419-013
Project Name: Clean Energy and Access Improvement Project
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Stakeholder participation was satisfactory. TA interacted with national and local NGOs, involved local communities, and conducted several workshops both at local and central level. However, engagement of social development expert during the TA implementation could have brought more success to the training and capacity- building activities.

Project Number: 48432-001
Project Name: Enabling Poor Women's Benefits from Enhanced Access to Energy in Hatiya Island
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The terms of reference for consulting firms should avoid duplications and unclarities in their deliverables, like the trainings. Though, ADB closely monitored the progress through review missions and provided guidance to the consultants, its project management was still weak. The social development expert could have been included through a scope change and mobilized timely.The output indicators in the DMF could have been revised with the changes in TA arrangement.

Project Number: 48432-001
Project Name: Enabling Poor Women's Benefits from Enhanced Access to Energy in Hatiya Island
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The implementation arrangement underwent changes due to the dropping of the targeted component under an investment project, which could not be foreseen at the TA appraisal. This resulted in the change of the executing agency during implementation. The TA project activities was hampered as the output and outcome were tied up with another ongoing project that affected the delivery of output (ii)b. electrical connections to 500 HHs and billing by 200 women.

Project Number: 48432-001
Project Name: Enabling Poor Women's Benefits from Enhanced Access to Energy in Hatiya Island
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The pilot PV projects can be replicated to PV-based business of bigger size, such as mini grid. Intended scaling up of the identified solar PV sites for mini grids were not executed due to cancellation of the investment loan.

Project Number: 48432-001
Project Name: Enabling Poor Women's Benefits from Enhanced Access to Energy in Hatiya Island
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The dissemination of knowledge products was inadequate under this TA project. The inventory of solar PV mini-grid and rooftop PV was not used in future project development. The TA could have included identification of solar irrigation pump sites and thus could benefit the SREP grant of $22.442 million approved in July 2017 as an additional financing to Power System Efficiency Improvement Project executed by Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board that plans to install 2,000 solar-driven irrigation pumps.

Project Number: 48432-001
Project Name: Enabling Poor Women's Benefits from Enhanced Access to Energy in Hatiya Island
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The TA project was consistent with ADB’s country operations business plan (2015–2017) and government’s Sixth Five-Year Plan (2011–2015). However, on the design part, the TA project could have assessed the feasibility of the scope before their inclusion in the TA output, such as the possibility of the solar irrigation pumps. Such due diligence could have avoided changes in the output 1 activities during the implementation period. Output 5: inventory of mini-grid sites could have been linked to the ensuing project. The TA lacked the social mobilization, training and start up support.

Project Number: 48432-001
Project Name: Enabling Poor Women's Benefits from Enhanced Access to Energy in Hatiya Island
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The TA was financed by the Republic of Korea e-Asia and Knowledge Partnership Fund, Strategic Climate Fund, and SREP funds. The cofinancers made the resources available to ADB immediately after approval of the TA. The cofinanciers monitored the progress from time to time. However, the TA design could have developed a formal communication and networking framework with cofinanciers.

Project Number: 48432-001
Project Name: Enabling Poor Women's Benefits from Enhanced Access to Energy in Hatiya Island
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ADB’s project oversight was not adequate as the change in the executing agency was not formalized through a minor change in the TA implementation arrangement and the contract agreement with Bangladesh Women’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BWCCI) could have been better and timely managed.

Project Number: 48432-001
Project Name: Enabling Poor Women's Benefits from Enhanced Access to Energy in Hatiya Island
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Project administration missions need to pay more attention to the quality of the design and implementation of the project performance management system so that good operational data can be collected.

Project Number: 38183-013
Project Name: Power Sector Expansion Project
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