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Lesson
This is an appropriate point, but this lesson could have been better phrased as follows: An active partnership with the government is necessary to reduce delays in project commencement and to ensure full commitment and timely allocation of counterpart resources.

Project Number: 48139-001
Project Name: Enhancing the Institutional Capacity of the Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division
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Lesson
An additional lesson would address the design shortcomings of the second outcome indicator. Measuring the participants’ intention to put into practice what they learned from the trainings does not measure if they actually and successfully put those learnings into practice. Thus, such indicator cannot adequately capture the extent to which capacity was improved.

Project Number: 48139-001
Project Name: Enhancing the Institutional Capacity of the Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division
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Lesson
Procurement, governance, and implementation is a relatively significant issue in Bangladesh, which is of concern to other multilateral and bilateral donors as well. Exploring co_x005F_x0002_financing and co-sharing opportunities could offer a possibility to work with other donors so that capacity building can be done at the scale and go deeper into systemic issues in the given sectors.

Project Number: 45376-001
Project Name: Capacity Building for Portfolio Management
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Lesson
This lesson suggests that the TA project may not have focused enough on the actual needs of the staff, and they could have done a better job at identifying gaps in skills and meeting these through partnerships.

Project Number: 45376-001
Project Name: Capacity Building for Portfolio Management
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Lesson
To derive lessons on how the key stakeholders see their participation and future roles, a post-TA completion survey could be highly useful.

Project Number: 45376-001
Project Name: Capacity Building for Portfolio Management
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Lesson
The PAMT seems to be a useful tool and should be considered for scale-up on a broader scale. Presenting data in the TCR so that it is aligned with the DMF enables easier validation.

Project Number: 45376-001
Project Name: Capacity Building for Portfolio Management
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Lesson
In capacity building components of a TA project, measuring the quality of training or learning acquired is important (not just the number of participants trained) and this should be reflected in the design of the indicator to better guide assessment of the effectiveness of capacity building activities.

Project Number: 45376-001
Project Name: Capacity Building for Portfolio Management
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Lesson
The lesson should reflect the level and type of stakeholder participation in terms of influence on the TA project and how they could be leveraged for TA sustainability. It is not a sufficient lesson to say that the participation was “good.” The TA team rightly reflected on the lesson of how the program would have benefited if there were targeted intervention for the private sector. Perhaps it was not sufficient enough to offer a 1-day open session for the contractors and consultants.

Project Number: 45376-001
Project Name: Capacity Building for Portfolio Management
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Lesson
This is not a lesson pertaining to post_x005F_x0002_TA financial resources, but just provides information on further resources after the TA implementation.

Project Number: 45376-001
Project Name: Capacity Building for Portfolio Management
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Lesson
An updated DMF is necessary to capture a TA project’s full extent of impact by aligning indicator years with those of the TA.

Project Number: 45376-001
Project Name: Capacity Building for Portfolio Management
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Lesson
Rephrasing: there may be opportunities for knowledge sharing beyond Bangladesh, given an expanding portfolio and successful portfolio results, and growing institutional experience within implementing government agencies.

Project Number: 45376-001
Project Name: Capacity Building for Portfolio Management
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Lesson
The lessons should include those pertaining to user interface management, maintenance of the tool, and training requirements.

Project Number: 45376-001
Project Name: Capacity Building for Portfolio Management
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Lesson
Reframing this: the TA project could have conducted detailed consultations to identify lessons learned and areas of improvement for poorly performing executing agencies. Needs assessments would have identified a greater degree of targeting of TA interventions and defined the parameters for capacity building.

Project Number: 45376-001
Project Name: Capacity Building for Portfolio Management
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Lesson
Another lesson might be: the gains made by this TA project are due to close ADB involvement, ensuring continuous support from the government.

Project Number: 45376-001
Project Name: Capacity Building for Portfolio Management
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Lesson
The lessons learned during the design and implementation of PAMT can certainly be replicated and shared with other government funded projects. However, it needs to be done systematically.

Project Number: 45376-001
Project Name: Capacity Building for Portfolio Management
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