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Mid-level skills training in Nepal can be further enhanced through adequate staffing and the approval of a national vocational qualification framework that links a diploma to other TVET and higher education qualifications.

Project Number: 38176-015
Project Name: Skills Development Project
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Challenges in GESI-AP implementation included (i) building women farmers’ confidence to participate in leadership roles in the WUAs, (ii) synchronizing the accessing of loans with the completion of agricultural training and irrigation improvement works to link women farmers with markets to sell their products.

Project Number: 38417-022
Project Name: Community Irrigation Project
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An extensive vocational education and training (TVET) database is essential for improved planning and evidence-based decisions.

Project Number: 38176-015
Project Name: Skills Development Project
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Farmers, particularly women farmers, found it more convenient to access loans through the community-based saving and credit schemes, which offered low interest rates. The MFIs did not generate enthusiasm in farmers because of the higher interest rates and the insufficient effort put in to convincing them of the benefits of microfinance

Project Number: 38417-022
Project Name: Community Irrigation Project
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Third-party monitoring and evaluation (M&E) and fiduciary reviews will improve the performance of service providers and training quality and outcomes.

Project Number: 38176-015
Project Name: Skills Development Project
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Any new system for raising irrigation service fees (ISF) should harmonize with traditional practice. This and incentives to increase farmers’ willingness to pay ISF will help to sustain the system. The fragile geology of Nepal makes local infrastructure vulnerable to seasonal damage caused by floods and landslides. Collection of ISF by farmers is important to keep funds ready for emergency repairs. Farmers traditionally contributed in cash, kind, and labor for system maintenance.

Project Number: 38417-022
Project Name: Community Irrigation Project
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With lack of progress on sludge and wastewater management a significant shortcoming of the project, the government could draw on global best practice for city-side inclusive sanitation to develop and pilot a fecal sludge management program that could be integrated with agriculture development.

Project Number: 41022-022
Project Name: Second Small Towns Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project
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The WUSCs are highly effective institutions for engendering strong community commitment to and ownership of WSS services and they appear to be able to administer the financial and revenue collection aspects of WSS system operation; the next project could explore the potential for a more corporatized WUSC model for towns with a population of more than 100,000, and options for contracting out the technical aspects of operation and maintenance of both water supply and wastewater management infrastructure;

Project Number: 41022-022
Project Name: Second Small Towns Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project
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Active engagement of national stakeholders and ADB resident missions from the outset helps improve ownership and project success. The likelihood of success is greater when an RCIF TA project is designed with genuine consultation with concerned line ministries, national agencies, the private sector (if relevant), and ADB resident missions. Active engagement of in-country stakeholders helps ADB to identify binding constraints and solutions, and to internalize implementation challenges at the TA design stage. This makes clear the roles and responsibilities of each stakeholder.

Project Number: No PN
Project Name: Regional Cooperation and Integration Fund, 2007–2019
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Clear delineation of country activities with transparent funding allocations in cross-border RCI TA projects involving several countries helps smooth implementation and increase project success. The transaction costs in cross-border RCI TA projects tend to be high both in terms of resources and the time required to achieve agreement among stakeholders in the participating countries. It takes much longer to negotiate and agree to a common proposal in a cross-border RCI TA project than in a usual TA project.

Project Number: No PN
Project Name: Regional Cooperation and Integration Fund, 2007–2019
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The TA showed the benefits of employing a flexible approach to provision of support, including consultant terms of reference which were suitable for hiring consultants to carry out a broad range of activities. There are also benefits to work closely with the team of consultants ensuring timely delivery and quality of outputs.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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After direct requests from DMCs to ADB to assist them with climate finance access, the TA was responsive to the evolving needs of DMCs related to the financing of their climate commitments under the UNFCCC which were not necessarily (yet) included in their country partnership strategy.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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As a consequence of this TA, a cost center has been established in SDCD, which allows ADB, inter alia, to continue to develop project proposals for submission to GCF. ADB’s Pacific Regional Department has since implemented TAs that can support the generation of climate finance proposals in conjunction with ADB projects.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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Promoting knowledge exchange and sharing of lessons learned from successful climate financing applications is important in a context of very limited experience with innovative climate finance mechanisms.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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Employ a “learning-by-doing” approach jointly with DMC stakeholders when developing climate-funding applications, including very close interaction between DMC stakeholders and proposal preparation consultants, is effective for knowledge building.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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