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Lesson
Letter of Agreement (LOA) arrangements with GMS governments facilitated [the] successful organization of workshops and implementation of demonstration activities. However, implementation of training sessions in countries like Myanmar was not easy, due to weak transport and communication networks.

Project Number: 39542-022
Project Name: Implementing the Greater Mekong Subregion Core Agriculture Support Program (Phase 2)
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Lesson
ADB should continue to assist GMS countries in promoting regional cooperation in agriculture by allocating more resources. The ADB contribution was limited—$0.44 million as against $11.88 million by SIDA, NDF, and WFPF. Several development partners stressed that ADB should allocate more resources for regional cooperation in agriculture.

Project Number: 39542-022
Project Name: Implementing the Greater Mekong Subregion Core Agriculture Support Program (Phase 2)
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Lesson
There are clear opportunities for scaling-up and replication of PGS, NUE, and GWM practices, and SEAP value chain investments. However, replication and scaling up depend on country capacities and circumstances, and the government buy-in.

Project Number: 39542-022
Project Name: Implementing the Greater Mekong Subregion Core Agriculture Support Program (Phase 2)
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There is clear potential for application of the PGS as a mechanism for food safety accreditation of organically produced agriculture products in GMS countries.

Project Number: 39542-022
Project Name: Implementing the Greater Mekong Subregion Core Agriculture Support Program (Phase 2)
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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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Lesson
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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Lesson
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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Lesson
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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Lesson
Recruitment of multiple individual consultants may be avoided, if possible. Eligibility for national consultants may be extended to other developing members of ADB to attract a better pool of consultants.

Project Number: 39542-022
Project Name: Implementing the Greater Mekong Subregion Core Agriculture Support Program (Phase 2)
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Early buy-in and commitment of target countries, early involvement of countries in the TA design is critical in realizing the outputs and results. Balancing diverse interests of multiple countries is a complex process and requires considerable negotiations.

Project Number: 39542-022
Project Name: Implementing the Greater Mekong Subregion Core Agriculture Support Program (Phase 2)
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Strong stakeholder participation throughout made a huge difference. Collaborating with a wider network of stakeholders—local communities, subnational government staff, private sector, civil society organizations—is time consuming, but it certainly improved the quality of outputs.

Project Number: 39542-022
Project Name: Implementing the Greater Mekong Subregion Core Agriculture Support Program (Phase 2)
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Slow approval processes and fund transfers due to delays in liquidation led to delayed delivery of annual work plans. As TA activities are season-specific, effective implementation requires advance planning and timely provision of resources, including finance, materials, and personnel.

Project Number: 39542-022
Project Name: Implementing the Greater Mekong Subregion Core Agriculture Support Program (Phase 2)
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Lesson
Although the overall performance of the consultants and ADB staff was satisfactory considering all the work that was accomplished, monitoring of consultants by ADB staff, with support from WGA focal points and coordinators in each GMS country, can be improved further by allocating more time by ADB staff and WGA focal points.

Project Number: 39542-022
Project Name: Implementing the Greater Mekong Subregion Core Agriculture Support Program (Phase 2)
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Lesson
Building on lessons learned from this TA, and in response to strong requests from WGA and GMS Ministers of Agriculture, a follow-up TA (ADB TA 9916) entitled “GMS Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security Program” was prepared to cover six priority themes: (i) promoting green, inclusive, and gender-responsive agri-food value chains; (ii) facilitating climate-smart agribusiness financing; (iii) enhancing food safety and quality standards, certification, and traceability; (iv) improving cross-border animal health and value chains; (v) managing water and soil for enhanced food security in a ch

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