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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
Ensure that all monitoring and reporting profiles for the project and adequate documentation are provided in a satisfactory manner for a follow up at a later stage. This includes a list of areas and topics for further studies and/or research.

Project Number: 48006-001
Project Name: Improving Efficiency in Public Service Procurement, Delivery, and Financing
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Lesson
It is important that, for country-specific TAs, there be a provision for any follow-up work by ADB country offices, particularly where these TAs are linked to country operation business plans or may be relevant to future investments to support local government for poverty reduction and livelihood improvement. As part of the TA sustainability planning, it would be useful if ADB could also discuss future plans with the executing agency.

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
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
Staff turnover and swift handover are a critical element of timely project implementation.

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
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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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
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
The findings from the TA studies (which covered seven counties) and its particular knowledge/capacity building approaches could be replicable in the other counties in the NHAR (total of 22 counties).

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
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
It is important for ADB to ensure that eligible projects benefit from the CDM hence the need for it to proactively intervene when needed.

Project Number: 40625-013
Project Name: Lanzhou Sustainable Urban Transport Project
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Lesson
Effective operation and maintenance (O&M) and strong management support are essential to ensuring the sustainability of the bus rapid transit (BRT) system.

Project Number: 45023-002
Project Name: Hubei-Yichang Sustainable Urban Transport Project
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