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Lesson
A model of using four individual consultants (rather than a consultancy firm) could pose coordination challenges and limit accountability in terms of the quality and timeliness of deliverables. Also, ensuring that consultants have good understanding or prior experience of working with ADB is an added advantage.

Project Number: 50006-001
Project Name: Poverty Reduction in Liupanshan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region
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Lesson
The TCR missed the opportunity to reflect on lessons regarding stakeholder participation. The TCR could have shared specific lesson from its engagement with various stakeholders from the government and the local business sectors. As the outcome statement involved two dimensions of planning and implementing poverty reduction measures, it would be useful if there are knowledge dissemination activities designed based on the roles played by the stakeholders, e.g., planning or implementation, as this would enable stakeholders to strengthen either the planning or the implementation capacity.

Project Number: 50006-001
Project Name: Poverty Reduction in Liupanshan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region
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Lesson
Validity of design was built with the project team responding to the request of the PRC government and aligning the project inputs to their declared priorities of reforms in three areas, namely budget management, tax reforms, and intergovernmental fiscal transfers. The TA design and planning elements contributed in large measure to the project’s enhanced efficiency. Project ownership was ensured with the TA’s demand-driven design at commencement. However, this was only evident in knowledge production, but fell short in the area of capacity-building development.

Project Number: 48006-001
Project Name: Improving Efficiency in Public Service Procurement, Delivery, and Financing
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Lesson
Risk assessment in the area of capacity-building development needs to be done at appraisal to come up with adequate mitigation plan to ensure that targeted participants are reached.

Project Number: 48006-001
Project Name: Improving Efficiency in Public Service Procurement, Delivery, and Financing
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Lesson
The TCR missed the opportunity to extract lessons on implementation and/or delivery, especially on how the time extension could have been avoided.

Project Number: 50006-001
Project Name: Poverty Reduction in Liupanshan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region
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Lesson
Systematic mechanisms (such as questionnaires) to record participant feedback and satisfaction levels in training sessions is important. It is not clear what mechanisms this TA used to conclude that training was highly regarded and appreciated by stakeholders.

Project Number: 50006-001
Project Name: Poverty Reduction in Liupanshan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region
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Lesson
Another element is the importance of establishing the influence of user involvement on the efficiency of the procurement process in the public sector to determine the effect of top management support on stakeholder participation early in the project cycle.

Project Number: 48006-001
Project Name: Improving Efficiency in Public Service Procurement, Delivery, and Financing
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Lesson
It is essential that—aside from being SMART—indicators be tightly linked to the objective statement considering a theory of change and program logic model. In the current TA, the link between the outcome indicator and the outcome statement needs to be tightened. This would facilitate better tracking of the TA results in the long term.

Project Number: 50006-001
Project Name: Poverty Reduction in Liupanshan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region
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Lesson
The development of technical knowledge products is just one step in the process. Additionally, a clear and well-resourced dissemination plan is needed (e.g., policy products, workshops at national and local levels) to reach wider audiences and decision makers.

Project Number: 50006-001
Project Name: Poverty Reduction in Liupanshan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region
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Lesson
The TA reflected the importance of sustaining the policy dialogue with key government officials and agency heads all along the TA cycle that helped build ownership and continuity in relevance and maintain its importance until completion. This was reflected in the TA outcome—the formulation of an operational guideline on engaging the private sector achieved in 2019

Project Number: 48006-001
Project Name: Improving Efficiency in Public Service Procurement, Delivery, and Financing
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Lesson
For knowledge and capacity building TA, the design should build in adequate time for knowledge dissemination, especially if the focus is on broad economic impact like poverty reduction.

Project Number: 50006-001
Project Name: Poverty Reduction in Liupanshan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region
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Lesson
Ensure that adequate reports and documentation in the TA repository are clearly linked to the Tax Reform Study of the TA and other deliverables that contribute to long-term impact and outcomes.

Project Number: 48006-001
Project Name: Improving Efficiency in Public Service Procurement, Delivery, and Financing
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Lesson
Knowledge sharing and capacity building using various delivery channels (e.g., trainings, workshops, toolkits) are effective means for engaging local stakeholders in poverty reduction efforts at the local level. The broad inclusion of women and stakeholders from government, civil society, and business was important in building wider awareness.

Project Number: 50006-001
Project Name: Poverty Reduction in Liupanshan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region
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Lesson
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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Lesson
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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