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Lesson
Flexibility in design and taking account of risks is important; however, the validation notes a lesson that DMF indicators cannot be static when projects are flexible and adjusting to changing contexts. Adjustments to DMF indicators, especially when there are key changes in scope, are necessary.

Project Number: 41613-012
Project Name: Integrated Renewable Energy Development
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Lesson
In the particular context of this TA, a lesson could be that stakeholder consultations are important especially for getting practitioner insights into the development of guidelines for migrating existing projects into new ones

Project Number: 41613-012
Project Name: Integrated Renewable Energy Development
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Lesson
This validation also offers the following additional lessons learned: (ii) Early due diligence can help to identify shortcomings and risks and enable the TA to take early corrective action.

Project Number: 41613-012
Project Name: Integrated Renewable Energy Development
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Lesson
Strong government institutional capacity is critical to scaling up. In this case, IREDA’s risk exposure impacted the TA’s original plan and alternative mechanisms had to be found.

Project Number: 41613-012
Project Name: Integrated Renewable Energy Development
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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
Report Date:
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
Report Date:
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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Lesson
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
Report Date:
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
Report Date:
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
Report Date:
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
It is important for the revision to DMF indicators to be consistent with the changes sought in memos, as this can help ensure better quality reporting. For example, the Memo of 9 February 2011 sought the approval for PriceWaterhouse Coopers Pvt. Ltd. consultants to set up the International Center for the Application of Solar Energy Technologies in IIT Rajasthan. However, the indicators were not refreshed; neither does the TCR comment on this in detail, thus risking activities such as these not being adequately captured through reporting.

Project Number: 41613-012
Project Name: Integrated Renewable Energy Development
Report Date: