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Lesson
Flexible umbrella TA projects allow for the projects to be opportunistic and take on new initiatives, but there could be implementation challenges and time delays. This also means that not all results may be known at TA project completion. For instance, the subproject on future cities was included through additional TASF resources, but this also required extension and the procurement of additional consultancy services. Although work progressed in the three pilot cities, it is not clear whether this was taken up by the respective governments by the end of the TA project.

Project Number: 48206-001
Project Name: Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (Phase 2)
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Lesson
Another internal lesson could be that when introducing additional funding midway through implementation—such as the TASF in this project—the TA needs to closely plan and monitor activities so that the overall TA project implementation is not delayed.

Project Number: 48206-001
Project Name: Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (Phase 2)
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Sequencing of activities can help to progress implementation. For example, early capacity development and analytical work can help to speed up disbursement, while use of knowledge and evidence comes at a later stage in implementation.

Project Number: 48206-001
Project Name: Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (Phase 2)
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Lesson
The lesson is that the demonstration of innovative pilots can help to ensure that these are taken up in design and implementation of ADB lending operations. Nevertheless, dissemination of knowledge to DMC stakeholders also provides an important avenue to bring local stakeholders on board.

Project Number: 48206-001
Project Name: Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (Phase 2)
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Lesson
The key lesson for ADB is to assess partner capacity and provide detailed guidance on operational procedures to manage expectations and to make the partnership effective.

Project Number: 48206-001
Project Name: Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (Phase 2)
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The political economy is a key consideration and can result in significant delays especially if counterpart capacity is low.

Project Number: 48206-001
Project Name: Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (Phase 2)
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Lesson
As continued financing of gender-projects can be a challenge, a key lesson for ADB is to consider options for financing continued support to sub-projects including from other ADB TA resources. ADB teams could also prepare solid gender project financing proposals and market these to other donors so that these can be scaled up

Project Number: 48206-001
Project Name: Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (Phase 2)
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Lesson
To avoid risk of failure, an umbrella TA should balance out the risk in the portfolio between highly innovative yet risky activities and those with firm disbursement schedules.

Project Number: 48206-001
Project Name: Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (Phase 2)
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Lesson
The involvement of communities at all stages of planning and implementation raises their awareness and encourages cooperation. In locations with no reliable electricity supply, people are highly motivated and strongly support the implementation of development projects and programs. During the program implementation, community members stressed the importance of capacity building to support the partial independence of the O&M of the RE system.

Project Number: 34339-013
Project Name: Renewable Energy Development Sector Investment Program
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Lesson
Benefit from ADB-sponsored training and workshops on procurement, safeguards, and financial management. The program demonstrated that the executing agencies have the capacity to undertake major construction projects related to the augmentation and rehabilitation of generation (especially small HPPs), transmission, and distribution infrastructure. Nonetheless, their staff could In addition, ADB should ensure that the executing and implementing agencies fully understand ADB’s end-to-end procurement processes from project/program inception.

Project Number: 34339-013
Project Name: Renewable Energy Development Sector Investment Program
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Lesson
The MFF modality was not the best approach because separate physical investment projects (tranches) could have been financed more effectively through a project-based loan that included reform actions.

Project Number: 34339-013
Project Name: Renewable Energy Development Sector Investment Program
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Lesson
Knowledge transfer ensures the sustainability. As the newly built grid connected HPPs are using advanced technology, technicians will require new skills to ensure proper O&M. Therefore, further onsite training will be needed to ensure the sustainability of the program’s operational life, preferably within the defect liability period.

Project Number: 34339-013
Project Name: Renewable Energy Development Sector Investment Program
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Lesson
Readiness filters during program processing can ensure better implementation. Subprojects suffered from weak readiness, as demonstrated by the substantial cost, time overruns, and initial delays.

Project Number: 34339-013
Project Name: Renewable Energy Development Sector Investment Program
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Lesson
The cost overruns indicate the importance of sound engineering design and value engineering that can (i) support more accurate cost estimates; (ii) preclude or minimize minor changes in the project’s scope or variations to contracts during construction; and (iii) set a more reasonable and realistic implementation schedule. Factors that contributed directly to the cost overruns include the higher cost of labor and materials than estimated at appraisal, the significant JPY depreciation, the inadequate program preparation, and the incomplete engineering design.

Project Number: 34339-013
Project Name: Renewable Energy Development Sector Investment Program
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Lesson
Procurement is critical in infrastructure projects, requiring preparation by project/program design consultants and close supervision by consultants, the government and executing agencies, and ADB. Subprojects suffered major delays because of weak procurement, leading to substantive time and cost overruns. Program implementation team from ADB should have been more proactive in assisting in the implementation of startup activities such as consultant recruitment and preparation of engineering designs.

Project Number: 34339-013
Project Name: Renewable Energy Development Sector Investment Program
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