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Lesson
Financial management staff’s inclusion in review missions will be key to ensuring improved financial performance of future projects. Neither the ADB project team nor PCO could decipher financial management requirements and covenant quantifications due to the absence of financial management staff in review missions. The team failed to follow up on audit opinions and recurrent issues, leading to recurrence of the same issues and delays in submitting the APFS. This improved only after inclusion of a financial management staff toward the end of the project.

Project Number: 42161-013
Project Name: Integrated Urban Development Project
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Continuous community consultation, benefit sharing, and interagency coordination are vital to create social acceptance for SLS construction. The Nepalgunj SLS construction was successful due to continuous community engagement, cooperation among political leaders, and early implementation of a community development program targeted to community living near the SLS. The SLSs in Janakpur and Siddharthanagar had to be dropped, however, as nearby communities did not allow their construction.

Project Number: 42161-013
Project Name: Integrated Urban Development Project
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In future, project design consultant’s scope of work should include assessment of background and technical information for underground existing utilities. The project had initial design delays and design modifications during implementation mainly due to unavailability of existing utilities’ underground information such as by plan profile and as-built drawing. Final DSC designs were not always comprehensive. This required variations for most contracts, resulting in both start-up delays and contract modifications.

Project Number: 42161-013
Project Name: Integrated Urban Development Project
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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
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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
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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
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Project readiness should be ensured before project approval.

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

Project Number: 38423-022
Project Name: Raising Incomes of Small and Medium Farmers Project
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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
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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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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
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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
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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