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Lesson
As noted in the subsection above, a lesson could be that, for highly technical projects, recruiting consultants with the right skills and international expertise is an important consideration that should be built into project design at an early stage. In this case, the TA had to go back several times with memos seeking approval for recruiting consultants.

Project Number: 41613-012
Project Name: Integrated Renewable Energy Development
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Lesson
This validation agrees with the lessons that aligning the design of PPTAs with government priorities is important to advancing business development in the solar power sector.

Project Number: 41613-012
Project Name: Integrated Renewable Energy Development
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Lesson
The lesson seems to highlight the importance of securing government and stakeholder ownership in order to deliver results. However, it stops short of outlining what approaches work best to secure stakeholder participation.

Project Number: 41613-012
Project Name: Integrated Renewable Energy Development
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Lesson
This validation also offers the following additional lessons learned: (i) Responsiveness to government policy priority requests is a key determinant of the TA achieving its intended results.

Project Number: 41613-012
Project Name: Integrated Renewable Energy Development
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Demonstrating the success of pilots can help governments to take further scaled up action.

Project Number: 41613-012
Project Name: Integrated Renewable Energy Development
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Lesson
The validation appreciates that regular consultation between ADB and concerned partners is important. However, this is standard good practice project management.

Project Number: 41613-012
Project Name: Integrated Renewable Energy Development
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Lesson
The TCR noted that the use of appropriate selection processes can reduce time and costs for ADB but stops short of explaining how the TA team went about doing this. A valuable lesson for other project teams could be a more specific and valuable information. This validation encourages TCRs to provide more detailed information that could guide other teams in designing, implementing, and monitoring and evaluating projects.

Project Number: 41613-012
Project Name: Integrated Renewable Energy Development
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Lesson
A lesson could be that the TA should consider its knowledge building and dissemination strategies at an early stage of design and implementation to have the desired impact on stakeholders. In this case it is not clear whether dissemination was done as an afterthought or was intended from the beginning.

Project Number: 41613-012
Project Name: Integrated Renewable Energy Development
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Lesson
This validation agrees but suggests that this lesson is relevant to the next section–Management. A key lesson is to ensure that recruiting consultants with the right skill sets should be prioritized at an early stage in implementation, especially for projects requiring highly specialized technical skills

Project Number: 41613-012
Project Name: Integrated Renewable Energy Development
Report Date:
Lesson
The main lesson here seems to be that the facilitation of donor coordination by government can play a critical role in ensuring policy and program coherence and help them achieve their intended targets in the long term.

Project Number: 41613-012
Project Name: Integrated Renewable Energy Development
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Lesson
Sufficient financial management expertise in the ADB project team and missions is necessary to ensure appropriate financial reporting, according to ADB requirements. In addition to these project-level lessons, mainstreaming the formulation of the GAP into all energy access projects, with sufficient attention and support, enhances project impact through measurable changes for women.

Project Number: 42252-022
Project Name: Rural Renewable Energy Development Project
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Lesson
ADB's safeguards requirements are important at appraisal and throughout implementation. Sufficiently trained implementing staff monitor the safeguard elements of all energy sector projects and ensure that these do not trigger adverse effects.

Project Number: 42252-022
Project Name: Rural Renewable Energy Development Project
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Lesson
Structures that ensure appropriate flow of information facilitate prompt responses to implementation issues.

Project Number: 42252-022
Project Name: Rural Renewable Energy Development Project
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Lesson
Wind energy has a strong potential in Bhutan.

Project Number: 42252-022
Project Name: Rural Renewable Energy Development Project
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Lesson
Sustaining gender mainstreaming in the energy sector of Bhutan requires a broad range of actions.

Project Number: 42252-022
Project Name: Rural Renewable Energy Development Project
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