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Lesson
The TA included significant amount of capacity building targeted to a wide range of agencies across GMS countries. The TA has made a specific contribution to the development of regional, national or theme-specific guidelines for effective management of the agri-food sector. Effective use of these guidelines and other knowledge products will require further TA support.

Project Number: 39542-022
Project Name: Implementing the Greater Mekong Subregion Core Agriculture Support Program (Phase 2)
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Prospects for further cooperation between subnational governments and the private sector in agri-food value chains must be harnessed.

Project Number: 39542-022
Project Name: Implementing the Greater Mekong Subregion Core Agriculture Support Program (Phase 2)
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Letter of Agreement (LOA) arrangements with GMS governments facilitated [the] successful organization of workshops and implementation of demonstration activities. However, implementation of training sessions in countries like Myanmar was not easy, due to weak transport and communication networks.

Project Number: 39542-022
Project Name: Implementing the Greater Mekong Subregion Core Agriculture Support Program (Phase 2)
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ADB should continue to assist GMS countries in promoting regional cooperation in agriculture by allocating more resources. The ADB contribution was limited—$0.44 million as against $11.88 million by SIDA, NDF, and WFPF. Several development partners stressed that ADB should allocate more resources for regional cooperation in agriculture.

Project Number: 39542-022
Project Name: Implementing the Greater Mekong Subregion Core Agriculture Support Program (Phase 2)
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There are clear opportunities for scaling-up and replication of PGS, NUE, and GWM practices, and SEAP value chain investments. However, replication and scaling up depend on country capacities and circumstances, and the government buy-in.

Project Number: 39542-022
Project Name: Implementing the Greater Mekong Subregion Core Agriculture Support Program (Phase 2)
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There is clear potential for application of the PGS as a mechanism for food safety accreditation of organically produced agriculture products in GMS countries.

Project Number: 39542-022
Project Name: Implementing the Greater Mekong Subregion Core Agriculture Support Program (Phase 2)
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Lesson
Opportunities for collaboration with development partners, the private sector, academic and research organizations, including International Fund for Agricultural Development, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and World Bank in cofinancing, knowledge sharing, policy dialogues, and south–south cooperation should be further explored.

Project Number: 39542-022
Project Name: Implementing the Greater Mekong Subregion Core Agriculture Support Program (Phase 2)
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There is a strong need for additional investments in GMS countries to produce SEAP in response to a growing demand from a rising number of GMS and non-GMS consumers.

Project Number: 39542-022
Project Name: Implementing the Greater Mekong Subregion Core Agriculture Support Program (Phase 2)
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It would have been useful to have spent more time at the beginning of the TA to understand the quality of baseline data in different pilot sites. This would have saved additional work that had to be carried out towards the end of the TA.

Project Number: 39542-022
Project Name: Implementing the Greater Mekong Subregion Core Agriculture Support Program (Phase 2)
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The TA promoted several public–private–community partnerships and benefitted from a broad network of partners, which contributed to bringing a large number of workshop participants and to getting rich inputs to improve the quality of the regional strategy on agro-value chains.

Project Number: 39542-022
Project Name: Implementing the Greater Mekong Subregion Core Agriculture Support Program (Phase 2)
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Gender has been mainstreamed in LOAs, but participation of women in capacity building activities was less than desired. Future efforts should target women as direct beneficiaries.

Project Number: 39542-022
Project Name: Implementing the Greater Mekong Subregion Core Agriculture Support Program (Phase 2)
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Project procurement plan should be developed in close consultation with the executing agency and resident mission staff in charge of project implementation, considering the lessons under other projects, and be flexibly adjusted. Time-consuming recruitment of many consultants along with unsuitable selection methods resulted in implementation delays. For future projects of similar nature and scope, suitable procurement packaging and selection methods should be set up based on the requirements for project progress and capacity of the EA and/or IAs.

Project Number: 42080-013
Project Name: Strengthening Water Management and Irrigation Systems Rehabilitation Project
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Advance actions were one of the measures to reduce project startup delay. However, there seems to be inadequate clarity on implementing advance actions in the government rules, and a good mechanism to make the subproject civil works ready for execution before or right after the project becomes effective. Currently, government control over the provincial debt ceiling and implementation of relevant budget management policies also contribute to startup delays and, therefore, limit project readiness.

Project Number: 42080-013
Project Name: Strengthening Water Management and Irrigation Systems Rehabilitation Project
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A coherent design and monitoring framework (DMF) is necessary as a basis for project planning, monitoring, and evaluation. The DMF for this project made evaluation a more difficult exercise than it should have been and weakened design relevance. The outcome indicator is too technical, unfamiliar to the executing agency, and was difficult to reevaluate.

Project Number: 42080-013
Project Name: Strengthening Water Management and Irrigation Systems Rehabilitation Project
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Having a strong, experienced executing agency was important to the success of this project. The professional, permanent and technical central project office (CPO) added value to project implementation and the quality of project outputs. However, for new similar projects, these implementation arrangements, where a central ministry such as Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) work as the executing agency, is in principle no longer possible in accordance with the new government policy.

Project Number: 42080-013
Project Name: Strengthening Water Management and Irrigation Systems Rehabilitation Project
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