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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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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)
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Lesson
GMS countries have varying levels of capacity not only among countries but also among various sub-national administrations within a country. One-size-fits-all capacity building solutions do not work, and targeted capacity building efforts are critical.

Project Number: 39542-022
Project Name: Implementing the Greater Mekong Subregion Core Agriculture Support Program (Phase 2)
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In countries like Lao PDR, sub-optimal inter-ministerial coordination and stakeholder coordination affected efficiency and effectiveness of some activities.

Project Number: 39542-022
Project Name: Implementing the Greater Mekong Subregion Core Agriculture Support Program (Phase 2)
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ADB should have better arrangements to account for foreign exchange losses in contributions from development partners, to avoid delays in payments for implementing the LOAs. Also, early application for cofinancing, perhaps by one year prior to start of the TA, may help in overcoming delays associated with long due diligence and approval process of cofinanciers.

Project Number: 39542-022
Project Name: Implementing the Greater Mekong Subregion Core Agriculture Support Program (Phase 2)
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Lesson
The TA included significant amount of capacity building targeted to a wide range of agencies across GMS countries. The TA has made a specific contribution to the development of regional, national or theme-specific guidelines for effective management of the agri-food sector. Effective use of these guidelines and other knowledge products will require further TA support.

Project Number: 39542-022
Project Name: Implementing the Greater Mekong Subregion Core Agriculture Support Program (Phase 2)
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Lesson
Prospects for further cooperation between subnational governments and the private sector in agri-food value chains must be harnessed.

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