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Lesson
Close coordination between subprojects needs to be ensured to enhance project synergy and benefits.

Project Number: 40625-013
Project Name: Lanzhou Sustainable Urban Transport Project
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Complete project data is vital to the reliable evaluation of project impacts and outcomes.

Project Number: 40625-013
Project Name: Lanzhou Sustainable Urban Transport Project
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This is a description of a follow_x005F_x0002_on activity and not formulated as a lesson. It could, for example, be: The effectiveness of a TA project can be enhanced if a follow-on TA will build on the results of the first.

Project Number: 48033-001
Project Name: Enhancing Road Safety for Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Member Countries
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In this TA, the Central and West Asia Department. collaborated effectively with the East Asia Department and the Development and Climate Change Department. A lesson from this would be: In a regional TA, application of the "One-ADB" approach can be particularly effective.

Project Number: 48033-001
Project Name: Enhancing Road Safety for Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Member Countries
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The stated lesson from the TA project is the second sentence, i.e., “The coordination of activities of this TA with relevant international development agencies, agencies in CAREC member countries, civil society and other stakeholders to avoid overlapping and to maximize the effectiveness of the project can be replicated in other TA projects.”

Project Number: 48033-001
Project Name: Enhancing Road Safety for Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Member Countries
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A lesson from this TA project could also be: In addition to exploring involvement of traditional local stakeholders and other donor organizations, a TA project can explore relationships with and participation by local youth organizations (as was the case in this TA project with regard to the Global Shapers Ulaanbaatar Hub and the Youth Generation of Tajikistan).

Project Number: 48033-001
Project Name: Enhancing Road Safety for Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Member Countries
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The importance of regular client meetings for fine-tuning of needs is a weak lesson since it is commonly known. The second part of the lesson could have been made more specific or clear, e.g., mentioning what “other stakeholders” the TA project team built relationships with, and is referred to, to trigger the lesson.

Project Number: 48033-001
Project Name: Enhancing Road Safety for Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Member Countries
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Reforms should be embedded in government institutions that can take ownership and ensure that these will last beyond the life of the TA project.

Project Number: 48033-001
Project Name: Enhancing Road Safety for Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Member Countries
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As this validation mentions, there is a need for government counterpart(s) to make an in-kind contribution so they have a “stake” in the results.

Project Number: 48033-001
Project Name: Enhancing Road Safety for Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Member Countries
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A more specific lesson is that road safety programs need to be integrated into the design and management of specific road networks.

Project Number: 48033-001
Project Name: Enhancing Road Safety for Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Member Countries
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Lesson
A lesson based on the first paragraph could be: “A TA project on road safety can be particularly effective when the TA results can be immediately used in preparation of investment projects or in ongoing projects.”

Project Number: 48033-001
Project Name: Enhancing Road Safety for Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Member Countries
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The DMF should provide clear plans for the study publications. The DMF planned that the TA studies be published, but it did not specify where these would be published. These studies may be used both within the PRC and in other ADB member countries, and plans to publish them in ADB’s website or in other widely accessible knowledge websites should be specifically stated. If the studies require editing or translation to meet publication criteria, time and budget should be included to complete their publication.

Project Number: 48010-001
Project Name: Study on Local Financial Market Development and Supervisory Framework
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Specific details of the measures that were adopted, and the timing of their adoption provide a useful practice advice for future policy support through TAs. The TCR reported that the policy recommendations were accepted by the FAOL and were being incorporated into the revised rules and in the regulatory framework for local financial markets in the PRC. It would be useful to expand on this to share knowledge of the time and process required to achieve these intended results.

Project Number: 48010-001
Project Name: Study on Local Financial Market Development and Supervisory Framework
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The DMF must be clear in its formulation of the details so that these could be used to confirm if the indicator targets were indeed achieved. The DMF in the TAR would have benefited from clearer indicators to (i) distinguish the Output 1 report from the Outputs 2–3 reports, (ii) specify the intended avenue for publishing reports, (iii) align the number of countries to be visited for the international study tour with the TAR’s main text, and (iv) have greater detail on the composition of training and workshop participants.

Project Number: 48010-001
Project Name: Study on Local Financial Market Development and Supervisory Framework
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There are strong potential welfare gains to smallholder farmers and their communities by improving access to clean energy and learning the practices and mechanisms of climate-friendly agriculture developed and encouraged by this TA. This scaling-up potential to an ever-wider diversity and number of stakeholders can be a next logical step, and require s careful consideration how the maximum number of people can be reached with the best efficacy; that is, through a combination of public, private, donor, and other resource means.

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