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Appropriate point, but this lesson could have been better phrased as follows: During TA planning and design, an active coordination between the ADB project officer and the nominated client representative is necessary to ensure that the TA design keeps pace with evolving client needs and can be adjusted as necessary prior to the TA project’s approval.

Project Number: 48139-001
Project Name: Enhancing the Institutional Capacity of the Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division
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Lesson
Agree. Lesson offered would contribute to the sustainability of the TA benefits to the larger number of agencies in Bangladesh.

Project Number: 48139-001
Project Name: Enhancing the Institutional Capacity of the Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division
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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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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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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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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
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
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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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
TCR did not include a lesson for this criterion, however, a relevant lesson can be found in the Follow_x005F_x0002_up Actions section: “To build upon the achievements of the project, a new KSTA [knowledge and support technical assistance] on Deepening Understanding of Macroeconomic Fluctuations in Developing Member Countries for Improved Economic Assessment was approved on 21 June 2018 to further deepen understanding of macroeconomic fluctuations in DMCs for improved economic assessment.

Project Number: 47146-001
Project Name: Macroeconomic Modelling for Improved Economic Assessment
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Lesson
The validation agrees with the lesson that alignment of TA project design with ADB operational priorities and workplans can help ensure smoother implementation, monitoring, and reporting.

Project Number: 48206-001
Project Name: Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (Phase 2)
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The validation agrees that this is an important lesson especially as this was a cross-cutting gender specific TA project, and especially as this Phase 2 was building on work already undertaken in Phase 1. The TA project thus potentially offers a rich set of lessons; the documentation of lessons of replication is important and could potentially inform approach to how gender can be mainstreamed or scaled up across ADB operations.

Project Number: 48206-001
Project Name: Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (Phase 2)
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Lesson
Well-phrased as a lesson, assuming the lack of training was the main underlying issue. Given that audit observations presumably came in annually, there could have been time to adjust the TA project activities to address the identified issue. However, it is unclear from the TCR whether factors other than inadequate training contributed to the issue.

Project Number: 45317-001
Project Name: Support for the Third Primary Education Development Project
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Lesson
Also, as lack of capacity in fiduciary oversight is a common problem, the lesson can add that similar TA projects can be provided to ADB projects in other developing member countries.

Project Number: 45317-001
Project Name: Support for the Third Primary Education Development Project
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