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The TA had good stakeholder’s participation and interest which benefited the ADB funded projects at large. However, the TA could also have targeted interventions for the private sector for capacity development in procurement, safeguards, and contract management.

Project Number: 45376-001
Project Name: Capacity Building for Portfolio Management
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The TA has successfully developed and launched the PAMT. This tool may be integrated into ADB’s system of information technology rather than keeping it in outside the ADB server for better sustainability and ownership.

Project Number: 45376-001
Project Name: Capacity Building for Portfolio Management
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The TA should have organized regional events with participants from other countries for sharing knowledge and best practices. [The] Bangladesh portfolio is also rapidly gaining success. The stories can be imparted to other countries.

Project Number: 45376-001
Project Name: Capacity Building for Portfolio Management
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There should be a TA review mission at least once a year to monitor and record the progress, disseminate the achievement, and take the feedback for improvement. Based on the review mission, the outputs resulted from this TA can be recorded in the Back to Office Reports and Aide Memoires.

Project Number: 45376-001
Project Name: Capacity Building for Portfolio Management
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The TA was financed by the Republic of Korea e-Asia and Knowledge Partnership Fund, Strategic Climate Fund, and SREP funds. The cofinancers made the resources available to ADB immediately after approval of the TA. The cofinanciers monitored the progress from time to time. However, the TA design could have developed a formal communication and networking framework with cofinanciers.

Project Number: 48432-001
Project Name: Enabling Poor Women's Benefits from Enhanced Access to Energy in Hatiya Island
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Lesson
Stakeholder participation was satisfactory. TA interacted with national and local NGOs, involved local communities, and conducted several workshops both at local and central level. However, engagement of social development expert during the TA implementation could have brought more success to the training and capacity- building activities.

Project Number: 48432-001
Project Name: Enabling Poor Women's Benefits from Enhanced Access to Energy in Hatiya Island
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The dissemination of knowledge products was inadequate under this TA project. The inventory of solar PV mini-grid and rooftop PV was not used in future project development. The TA could have included identification of solar irrigation pump sites and thus could benefit the SREP grant of $22.442 million approved in July 2017 as an additional financing to Power System Efficiency Improvement Project executed by Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board that plans to install 2,000 solar-driven irrigation pumps.

Project Number: 48432-001
Project Name: Enabling Poor Women's Benefits from Enhanced Access to Energy in Hatiya Island
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Lesson
ADB’s project oversight was not adequate as the change in the executing agency was not formalized through a minor change in the TA implementation arrangement and the contract agreement with Bangladesh Women’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BWCCI) could have been better and timely managed.

Project Number: 48432-001
Project Name: Enabling Poor Women's Benefits from Enhanced Access to Energy in Hatiya Island
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The terms of reference for consulting firms should avoid duplications and unclarities in their deliverables, like the trainings. Though, ADB closely monitored the progress through review missions and provided guidance to the consultants, its project management was still weak. The social development expert could have been included through a scope change and mobilized timely.The output indicators in the DMF could have been revised with the changes in TA arrangement.

Project Number: 48432-001
Project Name: Enabling Poor Women's Benefits from Enhanced Access to Energy in Hatiya Island
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The implementation arrangement underwent changes due to the dropping of the targeted component under an investment project, which could not be foreseen at the TA appraisal. This resulted in the change of the executing agency during implementation. The TA project activities was hampered as the output and outcome were tied up with another ongoing project that affected the delivery of output (ii)b. electrical connections to 500 HHs and billing by 200 women.

Project Number: 48432-001
Project Name: Enabling Poor Women's Benefits from Enhanced Access to Energy in Hatiya Island
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The pilot PV projects can be replicated to PV-based business of bigger size, such as mini grid. Intended scaling up of the identified solar PV sites for mini grids were not executed due to cancellation of the investment loan.

Project Number: 48432-001
Project Name: Enabling Poor Women's Benefits from Enhanced Access to Energy in Hatiya Island
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Lesson
The TA project was consistent with ADB’s country operations business plan (2015–2017) and government’s Sixth Five-Year Plan (2011–2015). However, on the design part, the TA project could have assessed the feasibility of the scope before their inclusion in the TA output, such as the possibility of the solar irrigation pumps. Such due diligence could have avoided changes in the output 1 activities during the implementation period. Output 5: inventory of mini-grid sites could have been linked to the ensuing project. The TA lacked the social mobilization, training and start up support.

Project Number: 48432-001
Project Name: Enabling Poor Women's Benefits from Enhanced Access to Energy in Hatiya Island
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Lesson
The original TA implementation period was 32 months from May 2012 to December 2014. It was, however, estimated that consulting services would be required for the same duration. Considering the possible delay in government approval of TA effectiveness, as well as other unexpected delays during implementation, the implementation period should have been designed longer. In fact, political unrest in the country forced the consultant to demobilize key personnel from the site for a certain period.

Project Number: 45078-001
Project Name: Strategic Masterplan for Chittagong Port
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After the inception mission, the TOR had to be revised to strengthen the assessment of current port operation and propose possible implementation of existing terminals. In future, similar TAs for master planning of the port sector should be designed to cover such diagnosis from the beginning.

Project Number: 45078-001
Project Name: Strategic Masterplan for Chittagong Port
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During implementation, stakeholder’s workshops were held two times to facilitate involvement and ownership of all stakeholders. This approach was effective in conducting a comprehensive diagnosis of the current port operation and in elaborating the plan by incorporating different views from all stakeholders.

Project Number: 45078-001
Project Name: Strategic Masterplan for Chittagong Port
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