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Lesson
n addition to well-delineated tasks, coordination among project consultants should be set out clearly as a priority in the implementation arrangements.

Project Number: 39500-013, 39500-023, 39500-033
Project Name: Ho Chi Minh City Urban Mass Rapid Transit Line 2 Investment Program (MFF and Tranches 1 and 2)
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Project activities supporting a corporate program of the executing and/or implementing agency (EA/IA) need to have their own implementing and monitoring mechanisms

Project Number: 46265-001
Project Name: Energy Efficiency for Ho Chi Minh City Water Supply
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Lesson
This validation agrees with the recommendation and rephrases this as a lesson: Partnering with operational projects within ADB is an important step in ensuring that other DMCs outside ASEAN can develop their capital markets and improve governance standards of publicly listed companies.

Project Number: 48143-001
Project Name: Enhancing Association of Southeast Asian Nations Capital Market Integration
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Lesson
The TCR lesson is well developed. Implementing a potentially replicable small-scale TA with a limited number of DMCs can set the stage for cost_x005F_x0002_effective replication in other countries. This model developed under this TA is likely replicable to help build capacityin other DMCs.

Project Number: 49342-001
Project Name: Implementing ICT Tools to Improve Data Collection and Management of National Surveys in Support of the Sustainable Development Goals
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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 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
Initial success in implementing a TA supporting an innovative reform (e.g., cross-country financial infrastructure linkages), may encourage others to replicate reforms.

Project Number: 50055-001
Project Name: Creating a Regional Settlement Intermediary in ASEAN+3: Cross-Border Settlement Infrastructure Forum
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Lesson
The linkage agreed between the BOJ and the HKMA has the potential to set an example in the region and beyond.

Project Number: 50055-001
Project Name: Creating a Regional Settlement Intermediary in ASEAN+3: Cross-Border Settlement Infrastructure Forum
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Lesson
This lesson could be strengthened by including additional information on the scaling up and replication opportunities derived from this TA. For example, a detailed cost-benefit analysis and articulation of target recipients or beneficiaries for these investments would strengthen the justification for additional scaling up of activities.

Project Number: 39542-022
Project Name: Implementing the Greater Mekong Subregion Core Agriculture Support Program (Phase 2)
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Lesson
Although the TA had some implementation challenges, it still showed that linking a TA to an MFF investment program can yield significant benefits for the development of a sector, leveraging the benefits of the TA.

Project Number: 44002-022
Project Name: Improving Operational Performance of the Water Supply Sector
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Replication: Within ADB, the SDCD cost center has been established to develop GCF project proposals. Scaling up: It would require additional project preparation facilities, trust fund resources, and climate TA projects alongside ADB projects. Skills within SDCD have been developed but continue to rely on TA consultant support for implementation. The TCR, thus, recommended for a way forward.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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Lesson
The strong collaboration among international financial institutions in Viet Nam (the 6-Banks group) provides an interesting model that may have broader applicability across ADB. This TA showed that activities, such as sharing international best practice and providing advice on the formulation of draft laws and decrees, can be strengthened when done in the name of more than one organization.

Project Number: 48183-001
Project Name: Improving Portfolio Performance and Aid Management
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Lesson
Other lessons that can be used when replicating or scaling up some aspects of this TA project were not mentioned. Based on the guidelines, replication occurs when results of the TA project can be copied in other areas. Evidence of scaling up can involve mainstreaming the TA project process into wider development pathway.

Project Number: 48240-001
Project Name: Information and Communication Technology for Development Initiative Facility in Asia and the Pacific
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Lesson
If this TCR claims potential demand from other countries for similar TA projects, it could have provided evidence to support this. The TCR could have also highlighted what worked and what did not in the methodology used if similar TA projects would be replicated or lessons that could be useful in the follow-on TA project.

Project Number: 50315-001
Project Name: Facilitating Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Foreign Direct Investment Flows: An ASEAN+6 Case Study
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