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Lesson
This validation also offers this lesson: The TA memo provides a lesson (although it was not reflected in the TCR lessons) regarding the shift in scope, "In light of the ongoing transition to federalism, which aims to devolve the responsibilities for the agriculture sector to the subnational government levels (provincial and municipal), the consultations at the subnational level have become critical not only for the program design, but also to assess the most feasible implementation arrangements…The need to consult with the subnational government offices has not received sufficient atte

Project Number: 48218-007
Project Name: Support for Value Chain Development under the Nepal Agriculture Development Strategy
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Lesson
The lesson is not clearly articulated as a TCR lesson. In finalizing this validation report, the NRM rephrased and provided additional information: ADB’s flexibility to adopt to changed country context is crucial to maintaining project relevance. ADB was quick to respond to the government’s need for critical policy reforms as a greater priority than the value chain component in the context of federalism. ADB’s flexibility reflected in a minor change in scope of the TA 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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Lesson
The TCR lesson lists the activities carried out by the project and concludes that the survey reveals new product opportunities in the value chain. The TCR does not talk about specific lessons learned out of the process. In finalizing this validation report, the NRM rephrased the lesson and provided additional information: Effective knowledge building brings many tangible benefits in the design of new projects.

Project Number: 48218-007
Project Name: Support for Value Chain Development under the Nepal Agriculture Development Strategy
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Lesson
The TCR lesson reflects on the need to engage with the stakeholders in the project design process. However, there is no mention of whether the stakeholders were consulted again when the output indicators changed, and some market corridors were dropped. When the project scope changes significantly, it is a good practice to revisit previously consulted stakeholders to update them of the need to change the targets and incorporate their feedback.

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 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
Report Date:
Lesson
Establishing a system for project performance and benefit monitoring, and ensuring its operation after post-project completion helps facilitate the systematic tracking of project results. Weak monitoring and reporting of implementation issues and the insufficient collection and analyses of project benefits and socioeconomic data would hamper project evaluation and lead to noncompliance with loan covenants. The project planned for a PPMS, and DMF indicators were to be collected at baseline and monitored annually. But in this project, the PPMS submitted only one annual report.

Project Number: 38349-013
Project Name: Air Transport Capacity Enhancement Project
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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
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Lesson
The TCR did not have a lesson for this criterion. However, during the finalization of this validation, the South Asia Regional Cooperation and Operations Coordination Division (SARC) provided this lesson: Implementing regional TAs is more complex and entails continued commitment and engagement of participating countries. A comprehensive risk analysis and appropriate mitigating measures should be in place and regularly updated throughout implementation to efficiently address issues that may come up.

Project Number: 45396-001
Project Name: South Asia Economic Integration Partnership
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Lesson
During the finalization of this validation, SARC provided another lesson: Flagship knowledge products on a sector involving multiple countries can contribute to more effective planning and programming of regional interventions.

Project Number: 45396-001
Project Name: South Asia Economic Integration Partnership
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Lesson
Despite issues associated with the RETA’s design and relevance, ADB was able to maintain operations in two countries. The lesson here observed that the focus on tangible benefits was able to maintain some momentum.

Project Number: 45396-001
Project Name: South Asia Economic Integration Partnership
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Lesson
This is a description of outputs and does not constitute a lesson. During the finalization of this validation, SARC provided another lesson: Partnership and working on related initiatives with donors and other ADB TAs promote leveraging of available financing to maximize results and enhance cross-learning.

Project Number: 45396-001
Project Name: South Asia Economic Integration Partnership
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Lesson
Agreed. A useful lesson is the importance of partnerships with the client to ensure buy-in and follow through, and to tailor to additional capacity building demands from the DMCs

Project Number: 47146-001
Project Name: Macroeconomic Modelling for Improved Economic Assessment
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Lesson
There is a need for careful planning in the context of an exploratory TA, such as this one, to allow for timely delivery of outputs while ensuring process and cost efficiency

Project Number: 47146-001
Project Name: Macroeconomic Modelling for Improved Economic Assessment
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Lesson
In the TCR’s Conduct of Activities section, it mentioned: “The nowcasting study featuring Indonesia was completed and published in the ADB Economics Working Paper series in December 2015 and in Empirical Economics journal in June 2017. This tool has been used regularly by the Indonesia Resident Mission to support their growth forecasts since 2016 and has also been shared to the Fiscal Policy Agency of the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of National Development Planning of the Republic of Indonesia to enrich their suite of tools for conducting macroeconomic monitoring.

Project Number: 47146-001
Project Name: Macroeconomic Modelling for Improved Economic Assessment
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Lesson
Agreed. Another useful lesson is the importance of involving clients in a hands-on manner to build a technical product and ensure the transfer of technical expertise, and the subsequent adoption or uptake

Project Number: 47146-001
Project Name: Macroeconomic Modelling for Improved Economic Assessment
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