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Lesson
Multi-stakeholder platforms are important informal institutional mechanisms for facilitating business-to-business linkages.

Project Number: 38423-022
Project Name: Raising Incomes of Small and Medium Farmers Project
Report Date:
Lesson
Limited availability of local inputs and technical know-how affects project implementation and sustainability.

Project Number: 38423-022
Project Name: Raising Incomes of Small and Medium Farmers Project
Report Date:
Lesson
Project readiness should be ensured before project approval.

Project Number: 38423-022
Project Name: Raising Incomes of Small and Medium Farmers Project
Report Date:
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Supporting policies need to have clear guidelines on tax incentives.

Project Number: 38423-022
Project Name: Raising Incomes of Small and Medium Farmers Project
Report Date:
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Access to formal finance in Nepal’s rural areas needs to be strengthened.

Project Number: 38423-022
Project Name: Raising Incomes of Small and Medium Farmers Project
Report Date:
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Matching grants help build investor confidence.

Project Number: 38423-022
Project Name: Raising Incomes of Small and Medium Farmers Project
Report Date:
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Farmers need to adopt climate-resilient infrastructure and technology.

Project Number: 38423-022
Project Name: Raising Incomes of Small and Medium Farmers Project
Report Date:
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Nepal’s capacity to effectively monitor food quality needs to be strengthened.

Project Number: 38423-022
Project Name: Raising Incomes of Small and Medium Farmers Project
Report Date:
Lesson
The TCR lesson is not phrased as a lesson. In finalizing this validation report, the NRM rephrased the lesson and provided additional information: Adequate consideration of Nepal’s political landscape in delivering or scaling up effective agricultural services and approaches in the future is critical. 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.

Project Number: 48218-007
Project Name: Support for Value Chain Development under the Nepal Agriculture Development Strategy
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Lesson
Agreed. Lesson might be rephrased as: Wide stakeholder consultations (with private sector, subject matter experts, and the government) enabled identification of critical reforms, particularly on food safety, an area where this TA linked with public health.

Project Number: 48218-007
Project Name: Support for Value Chain Development under the Nepal Agriculture Development Strategy
Report Date:
Lesson
This validation also offers these lessons: 2. IIn DMF design, it is also best practice if indicator targets are made specific and defined based on the full extent of results expected under an output, rather than a partial result. For this TA, the indicator 1c was defined as "at least 3 market centers for upgrading identified," and the TA did identify 3 market centers for upgrading. However, the TCR considers the output as only partly achieved, because the TA did not provide a summary of the detailed upgrading needs of the markets, which was foreseen in the TA activities.

Project Number: 48218-007
Project Name: Support for Value Chain Development under the Nepal Agriculture Development Strategy
Report Date:
Lesson
The TCR lesson is well developed and the TORs are also well written.

Project Number: 48218-007
Project Name: Support for Value Chain Development under the Nepal Agriculture Development Strategy
Report Date:
Lesson
The TCR lesson is not clearly articulated as a lesson. Some reflections on the causes that lead to a typical TA project to be TRTA would have been interesting lesson to reflect. In finalizing this validation report, the NRM rephrased the lesson and provided additional information: ADB’s flexibility to reclassify TAs was an important measure to adjust project design to changed circumstances without sacrificing the resources allocated for the TA.

Project Number: 48218-007
Project Name: Support for Value Chain Development under the Nepal Agriculture Development Strategy
Report Date:
Lesson
This validation also offers these lessons: 1. In DMF design, it is most favorable if quantitative indicator targets are described with sufficient context to clearly rationalize the target values. This provides a transparent and logical basis and facilitates the assessment of the validity of the targets. Lack of information on how targets were set and then revised hinders validation.

Project Number: 48218-007
Project Name: Support for Value Chain Development under the Nepal Agriculture Development Strategy
Report Date:
Lesson
This validation also offers this lesson: Shifting government priorities is a common risk in projects and should be identified in the TA report. Further, risk mitigation measures should be identified to smoothen the implementation of a TA.

Project Number: 48218-007
Project Name: Support for Value Chain Development under the Nepal Agriculture Development Strategy
Report Date: