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Lesson
Preparing the terms of reference, finding good consultants, and managing the consultants’ outputs are not easy tasks for most ADB staff who don’t have previous experience on ICT projects. Taking advantage of the SDCC-DT’s position as a coordination unit for ICT in operation, the TA project helped compile ADB’s ongoing and planned ICT projects and proactively approached the project officers proposing technical support to operational departments. The TA project mobilized ICT experts, both individual and/or consulting firms, in consideration of the nature of the technical assistance required.

Project Number: 48240-001
Project Name: Information and Communication Technology for Development Initiative Facility in Asia and the Pacific
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Although the overall performance of the consultants and ADB staff was satisfactory considering all the work that was accomplished, monitoring of consultants by ADB staff, with support from WGA focal points and coordinators in each GMS country, can be improved further by allocating more time by ADB staff and WGA focal points.

Project Number: 39542-022
Project Name: Implementing the Greater Mekong Subregion Core Agriculture Support Program (Phase 2)
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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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Early buy-in and commitment of target countries, early involvement of countries in the TA design is critical in realizing the outputs and results. Balancing diverse interests of multiple countries is a complex process and requires considerable negotiations.

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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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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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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GMS countries have varying levels of capacity not only among countries but also among various sub-national administrations within a country. One-size-fits-all capacity building solutions do not work, and targeted capacity building efforts are critical.

Project Number: 39542-022
Project Name: Implementing the Greater Mekong Subregion Core Agriculture Support Program (Phase 2)
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Building on lessons learned from this TA, and in response to strong requests from WGA and GMS Ministers of Agriculture, a follow-up TA (ADB TA 9916) entitled “GMS Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security Program” was prepared to cover six priority themes: (i) promoting green, inclusive, and gender-responsive agri-food value chains; (ii) facilitating climate-smart agribusiness financing; (iii) enhancing food safety and quality standards, certification, and traceability; (iv) improving cross-border animal health and value chains; (v) managing water and soil for enhanced food security in a ch

Project Number: 39542-022
Project Name: Implementing the Greater Mekong Subregion Core Agriculture Support Program (Phase 2)
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Slow approval processes and fund transfers due to delays in liquidation led to delayed delivery of annual work plans. As TA activities are season-specific, effective implementation requires advance planning and timely provision of resources, including finance, materials, and personnel.

Project Number: 39542-022
Project Name: Implementing the Greater Mekong Subregion Core Agriculture Support Program (Phase 2)
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Strong stakeholder participation throughout made a huge difference. Collaborating with a wider network of stakeholders—local communities, subnational government staff, private sector, civil society organizations—is time consuming, but it certainly improved the quality of outputs.

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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In countries like Lao PDR, sub-optimal inter-ministerial coordination and stakeholder coordination affected efficiency and effectiveness of some activities.

Project Number: 39542-022
Project Name: Implementing the Greater Mekong Subregion Core Agriculture Support Program (Phase 2)
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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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ADB should have better arrangements to account for foreign exchange losses in contributions from development partners, to avoid delays in payments for implementing the LOAs. Also, early application for cofinancing, perhaps by one year prior to start of the TA, may help in overcoming delays associated with long due diligence and approval process of cofinanciers.

Project Number: 39542-022
Project Name: Implementing the Greater Mekong Subregion Core Agriculture Support Program (Phase 2)
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