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Lesson
Identifying critical risks and assumptions are an important element of design. However, design could also usefully identify mechanisms to mitigate these risks.

Project Number: 48143-001
Project Name: Enhancing Association of Southeast Asian Nations Capital Market Integration
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Lesson
Drawing on lessons from similar previous TA projects can help in robust design that is responsive to DMC needs, isrealistic, and adopts best practice. This could help to get greater stakeholder engagement in complex processes such as regional capital market integration.

Project Number: 48143-001
Project Name: Enhancing Association of Southeast Asian Nations Capital Market Integration
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Lesson
The TCR lesson is appropriate but could have been more clearly worded. This lesson, for example, could have been reworded, to wit: “Effective dialogue with implementing agencies during the design stage is critical to efficient planning of activities, budgets, timelines and performance indicators.”

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
An additional lesson could have been that outcome indicators, which are measurable and relevant to all participating DMCs involved in a regional TA, should be identified.

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
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
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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Lesson
In addition to the lessons identified in the TCR, an additional lesson would be: Allowing flexibility to expand the scope and modify planned activities is beneficial for achieving the desired outcome. In this TA, the additional funding through the Republic of Korea e_x005F_x0002_Asia and Knowledge Partnership Fund supported the identification of policy reform actions for the regulatory environment governing local health care delivery to ease forward implementation.

Project Number: 50285-001
Project Name: Support to Strengthening Local Health Care Program
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Lesson
Rather than being a lesson learned, this is a statement of a requirement. ADB projects categorized Gender Equity (GEN) or Effective Gender Mainstreaming (EGM) are required to include gender sensitive indicators to their DMFs.

Project Number: 50285-001
Project Name: Support to Strengthening Local Health Care Program
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Lesson
(Referring to the new TA classification): This is not a lesson learned and not sufficiently specific to the TA design such as linkage to the consistency of the TA with the CPS, technical soundness of the TA, or adequacy of the design process.

Project Number: 50285-001
Project Name: Support to Strengthening Local Health Care Program
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Lesson
The timing needed to reach regional agreement on sensitive matters is inherently difficult to predict. The use of optimistic targets may help motivate progress. However, the risks of delays in such projects need to be explicitly recognized.

Project Number: 50055-001
Project Name: Creating a Regional Settlement Intermediary in ASEAN+3: Cross-Border Settlement Infrastructure Forum
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Lesson
In finalizing this validation report, SAOD elaborated on an open and flexible design in project implementation. It is a suitable solution to accommodating DMCs’ requests for climate change–related capacity building activities in line with project objectives.

Project Number: 46470-001
Project Name: Action on Climate Change in South Asia
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Lesson
Ensuring that design of the TA aligns with the ADB’s strategic regional efforts is important in helping to contribute to longer-term sustainable results. The DMFs could cross-reference these areas of alignment.

Project Number: 46470-001
Project Name: Action on Climate Change in South Asia
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Lesson
In addition, designing a complex cluster TA requires a conduct of a detailed risks assessment (i.e., risk strategy matrix vs. DMF statements), involving extensive consultations with the stakeholders. This was apparently done for subproject 2 but was not evident for the cluster RETA.

Project Number: 44174-022
Project Name: Support for Implementing the Action Plan for Transport and Trade Facilitation in the Greater Mekong Subregion (Subprojects 1 and 2)
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Lesson
The TCR identified two findings, not lessons: first, engagement with strategic national partners was beneficial, and second, flexibility in output 2’s design enabled the TA to respond to national stakeholder priorities during implementation through consultative workshops with national stakeholders

Project Number: 46470-001
Project Name: Action on Climate Change in South Asia
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Lesson
The improvements in the design were only done for subproject 2, while the overall DMF of the cluster RETA was left unchanged. This resulted in a disconnect and unclear results chain links between subproject 2’s narrowed focus and the cluster RETA’s outcome and outputs at appraisal. In a TA cluster, any changes in the subprojects require a revisit of the cluster TA’s DMF. The timely and critical review of preceding subproject(s) of a cluster TA project helped in ensuring that emerging issues and needs from stakeholders are addressed appropriately within the cluster TA project’s timeframe.

Project Number: 44174-022
Project Name: Support for Implementing the Action Plan for Transport and Trade Facilitation in the Greater Mekong Subregion (Subprojects 1 and 2)
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