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The project experiences have illustrated the potential financial gains from improved environmental management and conservation. The project has demonstrated enhanced coordination in public finance allocation across institutions in charge of the environment and natural resources. Given the likelihood that such operations will grow in the region, the experience of this project will be valuable.

Project Number: 39321-013
Project Name: Shaanxi Qinling Biodiversity Conservation and Demonstration Project
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The importance of project preparation and quality at entry is of utmost importance for similar projects in the future. A better prepared project can reduce issues that may potentially impede implementation at the early stages of implementation.

Project Number: 39321-013
Project Name: Shaanxi Qinling Biodiversity Conservation and Demonstration Project
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The review process and systematic monitoring of wetlands restoration project are imperative to deepen the benefits from environmental conservation and sustainable livelihood. A well developed monitoring and evaluation mechanism that would appropriately track the project status permits the timely implementation of project operation. Since project performance rating is one of the outputs of the monitoring and evaluation system, it periodically informs management on any potential risk in portfolio performance.

Project Number: 40685-013
Project Name: Jiangsu Yancheng Wetlands Protection Project
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Soliciting support and involving local stakeholders during project preparation ensures their greater ownership. It offers an opportunity to understand the local socioeconomic and ecological conditions surrounding the livelihoods and needs of the people. This creates effective solutions for biodiversity conservation and wetlands protection. Thus, the inclusion of natural resource users (e.g., farmers) is an essential step to ensuring that local knowledge is integrated into project planning and designing.

Project Number: 40685-013
Project Name: Jiangsu Yancheng Wetlands Protection Project
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TA actions that depend on national stakeholder institutional capacity for the achievement and long-term sustainability of TA results should critically assess institutional risks at design stage. The identified two or three risks in the TA Report DMF did not relate to institutional or capacity risks for the achievement and sustainability of the outcome. Fortunately, institutional risks did not constrain the achievement of the TA outcome, although its longer-term sustainability remains uncertain and is dependent on additional investment.

Project Number: 50012-001
Project Name: Conservation of Forest Genetic Resources
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The success and significance of capacity development activities, such as the training programs carried out under Output 3, can be better assessed when the capacity needs and gaps are clearly defined at the baseline. The project provided training to about 200 people from different organizations, but it is not clear how many people actually required training and capacity development to ensure the success and sustainability of the TA.

Project Number: 50012-001
Project Name: Conservation of Forest Genetic Resources
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The TA project team produced research papers relating to key scientific issues, such as seed and cone morphological variation. This provided a strong scientific basis for the TA’s work, and clear validation of the technical soundness of the TA.

Project Number: 50012-001
Project Name: Conservation of Forest Genetic Resources
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When implementing highly scientific TA activities, there is one important positive lesson relating to the management of the TA: engaging scientists, staff, and consultants with excellent technical credentials is critical. The TA activity engaged Mongolian and international scientists as consultants. This well_x005F_x0002_qualified scientific team apparently contributed to completing the TA activities

Project Number: 50012-001
Project Name: Conservation of Forest Genetic Resources
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Having a very successful and efficient small-scale TA activity that fulfills the needs of country partners and sets the stage for long-term strategic planning can catalyze subsequent larger-scale investments that scale-up and more fully implement the TA inputs. With a relatively short duration (implemented over approximately 19 months), and a modest budget ($0.42 million USD disbursed), the TA successfully provided important TA support for the country partners. Following the completion of the TA, the country partners were interested in a follow-up project.

Project Number: 50012-001
Project Name: Conservation of Forest Genetic Resources
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The design of a TA activity should include a focus on the steps necessary for planned outputs to fully lead to the expected outcomes, including a basic level of sustainability. The design of this TA included multiple outputs that were necessary for achieving the outcomes (e.g., the production of guidelines, reports), but did not fully address the necessary steps for implementation and institutionalization of the use of the forest seed site registry.

Project Number: 50012-001
Project Name: Conservation of Forest Genetic Resources
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The TCR lesson that collaboration and partnership with other stakeholders contributes to success is somewhat generic but is worth repeating. It would be useful if the TCR had provided additional information on the ways that synergies among all stakeholders were achieved, and the mechanisms used to coordinate.rapidly and was able to produce a number of joint scientific outputs in the form of scientific publications, attesting to the overall high technical quality of the TA results.

Project Number: 50012-001
Project Name: Conservation of Forest Genetic Resources
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Capacity development activities, such as training, present good opportunities for partnership and synergies with initiatives funded by other donor organizations. The TA partnered with initiatives funded by GIZ and the Czech development agency to jointly conduct training programs that supported the objectives of multiple activities. For example, some of the TA’s training activities were conducted as part of the activities for the GIZ-funded project “Biodiversity and adaptation of key forest ecosystems to climate change II.”

Project Number: 50012-001
Project Name: Conservation of Forest Genetic Resources
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When designing a DMF for a TA activity, it is important to provide as much specificity as possible relating to the definition of terms or conditions applied in indicators. In the DMF, the main outcome indicator was related to the implementation of the forest seed stand registry, but the indicator did not adequately define the conditions of success. The DMF could have specified and provided detailed conditions defining what implementation of the registry actually meant in concrete terms.

Project Number: 50012-001
Project Name: Conservation of Forest Genetic Resources
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Even when TA activities have a highly technical focus, finding ways to engage non-technical stakeholders can result in additional synergies and benefits. The TA activity included capacity development activities for forest managers relating to the management of forest genetic resources, including seed stand identification, seed collection, processing and storage.

Project Number: 50012-001
Project Name: Conservation of Forest Genetic Resources
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TA activities that include the development and deployment of training curricula should include measures to ensure that training modules are institutionalized before TA completion to support long-term sustainability. Output 3 focused on the capacity development of forestry professionals in forest seed stand management, and the TA succeeded in training almost 200 individuals. The TA design did not include plans to institutionalize these training modules for further use and replication.

Project Number: 50012-001
Project Name: Conservation of Forest Genetic Resources
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