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While the TA was categorized as a knowledge and support TA originally, the flexibility adopted by ADB with the minor change in scope actually turned the TA into a transaction TA, combining studies to be used for future project preparation, with detailed design for the program approved in 2019.

Project Number: 48218-007
Project Name: Support for Value Chain Development under the Nepal Agriculture Development Strategy
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A TA for $500,000 is piggybacked to the Food Safety and Agriculture Commercialization Program to support the Government in meeting the second tranche policy actions. TA resources will also be required to prepare the detailed design of the new investment project that is being discussed with the Government, given the Government's weak capacity for project development.

Project Number: 48218-007
Project Name: Support for Value Chain Development under the Nepal Agriculture Development Strategy
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Nepal's shift to federalism has devolved much of the agriculture sector work to subnational governments. The newly established provincial and local governments require extensive capacity building to deliver agriculture research and extension services. The planned ADB investment project for 2021 delivery will incorporate investments in research and development and a pluralistic extension system, focusing on hill horticulture development.

Project Number: 48218-007
Project Name: Support for Value Chain Development under the Nepal Agriculture Development Strategy
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The TA supported a wide range of stakeholder consultations with the private sector, subject matter experts, and the Government on key policy bottlenecks in the agriculture sector in Nepal. These interactions led to the identification of critical reforms towards strengthening the Government's capacity for ensuring the food safety, a serious public health concern in Nepal.

Project Number: 48218-007
Project Name: Support for Value Chain Development under the Nepal Agriculture Development Strategy
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The TA supported the preparation of (i) a policy matrix for a $50 million policy_x005F_x0002_based loan, (ii) a report on a commodity mapping survey along key road corridors in Gandaki Province, (iii) institutional mapping of the agriculture sector under federalism, (iv) a report on best practices under the recently completed ADB-financed value chain project, and (v) a preliminary concept note on rice- based value chain development. These reports will provide background information for the development of a new investment project in the agriculture sector in Nepal.

Project Number: 48218-007
Project Name: Support for Value Chain Development under the Nepal Agriculture Development Strategy
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All TA consultants were recruited as individual consultants. While this allowed ADB to select strong candidates, the administrative workload was significant, especially with the need to replace the experts with the change in TA scope. While recruitment of a firm would have been more efficient, recruiting individuals provided ADB flexibility in identifying strong candidates.

Project Number: 48218-007
Project Name: Support for Value Chain Development under the Nepal Agriculture Development Strategy
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ADB's flexibility in a minor change in scope of the TA at the request of the Government was useful to design a policy-based program in less than one year.

Project Number: 48218-007
Project Name: Support for Value Chain Development under the Nepal Agriculture Development Strategy
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The SASEC Transmission Master Plan is expected to be updated and expanded soon to include Myanmar, which exercise has been eased by the availability of requisite databases. The findings of the feasibility study on power trading companies in Bangladesh and Nepal would help similar studies on other countries.

Project Number: 45396-001
Project Name: South Asia Economic Integration Partnership
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Some of the TA activities helped to increase close collaboration with South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, which was always included in the dissemination and capacity development programs.

Project Number: 45396-001
Project Name: South Asia Economic Integration Partnership
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Partnership with United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) helped extensively to supplement the efforts in related activities under RETA 8619 and expand the capacity development on Bangladesh and Nepal. The cluster TA funded travel-related expenses of participants from Bangladesh and Nepal on the SASEC Cross-border Power Trade Development Study Tour held in Nord Pool Spot, Oslo, Norway, while RETA 8619 funded those of participants from other SASEC member countries.

Project Number: 45396-001
Project Name: South Asia Economic Integration Partnership
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Bringing together the relevant government stakeholders such as the ministries-in-charge of energy, the power utilities and transmission utilities, and the regulatory agencies in the intergovernmental meetings helped to further the discussions more effectively at both policy and technical levels.

Project Number: 45396-001
Project Name: South Asia Economic Integration Partnership
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Regular training and dissemination on this activity, among others, helped keep the momentum on regional energy cooperation.

Project Number: 45396-001
Project Name: South Asia Economic Integration Partnership
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The same project officer handled the sole subproject under the cluster TA from the start to the end. There was also no change in consultants at any stage. They were found to be highly qualified for the tasks assigned. This shows the importance of consistency not only in managing the TA, but also of the consultants’ inputs for successful achievement of the outputs.

Project Number: 45396-001
Project Name: South Asia Economic Integration Partnership
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Prior consultation with countries targeted to participate should be done extensively during preparation of the TA. For the subproject, the convenient process of TA approval helped to mobilize necessary resources for these supplementary activities in a timely manner.

Project Number: 45396-001
Project Name: South Asia Economic Integration Partnership
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PEDP III had 626 audit observations. Adequate training to the executing agencies on compliance with financial rules and regulation should have been provisioned under the TA, which could have improved the financial compliance and resulted in fewer audit observations.

Project Number: 45317-001
Project Name: Support for the Third Primary Education Development Project
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