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A better understanding of farmers' preferences and concerns ensures the feasibility of project targets.

Project Number: 38417-022
Project Name: Community Irrigation Project
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A timely change in scope responding to unexpected circumstances can ensure continued project relevance and smooth implementation.

Project Number: 38417-022
Project Name: Community Irrigation Project
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Community-driven projects benefit from comprehensive and inclusive stakeholder consultations.

Project Number: 38417-022
Project Name: Community Irrigation Project
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Resources devoted for post completion survey during the project design stage help facilitate assessment, especially for community-driven demonstration projects with potential higher-level impacts.

Project Number: 38417-022
Project Name: Community Irrigation Project
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Continued capacity development training of local officials and WUAs during project management, including for safeguard issues, ensures sustainable O&M of irrigation infrastructure and improved agricultural practices.

Project Number: 38417-022
Project Name: Community Irrigation Project
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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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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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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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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 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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A project needs to define road needs for a longer time frame and to construct roads to a suitable grade at the outset as it is more efficient and cost-effective than having to upgrade later.

Project Number: 38426-023, 30232-013
Project Name: Decentralized Rural Infrastructure and Livelihood Project
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ADB project departments and resident missions need to ensure that implementation issues are identified and corrected early on rather than waiting for the midterm review (MTR)

Project Number: 38426-023, 30232-013
Project Name: Decentralized Rural Infrastructure and Livelihood Project
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A phased approach to project design is useful if it is a complex, large project.

Project Number: 38426-023, 30232-013
Project Name: Decentralized Rural Infrastructure and Livelihood Project
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