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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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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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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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Early feasibility studies can be important mechanisms to assess institutional gaps, ensure alignment of the outputs and indicators with future proposed actions, and make any adjustments to the TA approach and the DMF as appropriate.

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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Disseminating technical reports in international forums allow greater uptake and use of knowledge by other stakeholders (in this instance, SAEN and SDCC).

Project Number: 45419-001
Project Name: SASEC Subregional Energy Efficiency Initiative
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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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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
Report Date:
Lesson
While this TA predates Strategy 2030, this mention of the role of the resident missions is a bit of the “One ADB approach” where knowledge and expertise from across the organization come together for more effective delivery. It would be helpful to have more details about how orin what way the RMs supported this TA. It is not totally clear what the TCR means by “arrangements to ensure the continuity of initiatives,” but as mentioned above, utilizing the research and work undertaken in this TA as a groundwork for future TAs or operations is a good way to get additional value from it.

Project Number: 45419-001
Project Name: SASEC Subregional Energy Efficiency Initiative
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ADB could have put in place mechanisms for TA findings to be linked to future investments, so that these could either be replicated or scaled up.

Project Number: 45419-001
Project Name: SASEC Subregional Energy Efficiency Initiative
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An additional lesson is having an important facilitative role in attracting donor funding even without substantial investments of its own, ADB can leverage its knowledge and connections to implement significant projects in collaboration with other stakeholders.

Project Number: 39542-022
Project Name: Implementing the Greater Mekong Subregion Core Agriculture Support Program (Phase 2)
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Lesson
During TA implementation, coordination was found to impact efficiency and effectiveness. In countries where coordination needs to be improved, the project team’s level of involvement is critical.

Project Number: 39542-022
Project Name: Implementing the Greater Mekong Subregion Core Agriculture Support Program (Phase 2)
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Based on the recommendations indicated in the TCR, one lesson is that collaboration with other development partners, not only through the conduct of activities but also through cofinancing, could be a valuable and important means of facilitating delivery of intended results.

Project Number: 39542-022
Project Name: Implementing the Greater Mekong Subregion Core Agriculture Support Program (Phase 2)
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Lesson
There are strong potential welfare gains to smallholder farmers and their communities by improving access to clean energy and learning the practices and mechanisms of climate-friendly agriculture developed and encouraged by this TA. This scaling-up potential to an ever-wider diversity and number of stakeholders can be a next logical step, and require s careful consideration how the maximum number of people can be reached with the best efficacy; that is, through a combination of public, private, donor, and other resource means.

Project Number: 39542-022
Project Name: Implementing the Greater Mekong Subregion Core Agriculture Support Program (Phase 2)
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An analysis of priority stakeholders can yield a clearer idea of the cost-time effort required to reach these beneficiaries, given transport and communication constraints.

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