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Lesson
Augmentation of the resident mission’s (RM) staff complement may be necessary to strengthen ADB support for weak areas in executing agency (EA) project management and implementation capacity.

Project Number: 40173-043
Project Name: Highlands Region Road Improvement Investment Program - Project 2
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Agreed. Maintaining continuity in the course of TA implementation by utilizing the consultant team most familiar with the project can result in benefits from knowledge building. Furthermore, knowledge sharing initiatives provide a mechanism to facilitate information exchange that can result in successful project outcomes.

Project Number: 46502-001
Project Name: Trade and Transport Facilitation in the Pacific
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Lesson
Properly designed TA DMFs enables the outcomes and outputs to be clearly attributed to the TA project initiatives. Generalized achievements, or achievements that could have resulted from initiatives or projects being implemented by other organizations concurrently, should be avoided. It is important to define baselines for indicators and factor in expected growth/development when defining indicator targets.

Project Number: 46502-001
Project Name: Trade and Transport Facilitation in the Pacific
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Lesson
A robust research and consultation conducted during the project planning and design stage ensure that the outcomes, outputs, and TA project activities being proposed are not already being conducted by other donors or even by ADB. Evaluation of initiatives developed for roll-out in other regions where they have proven success supports them being adopted into the new region considering its own characteristics.

Project Number: 46502-001
Project Name: Trade and Transport Facilitation in the Pacific
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A carefully developed TOR for consultants during the project planning and design stage ensure that the contract is set up in a most efficient way.

Project Number: 46502-001
Project Name: Trade and Transport Facilitation in the Pacific
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This is a valid lesson. In addition, when extending or amending a TA, clear articulation of changes in expected outcomes should be provided.

Project Number: 46374-001
Project Name: Southern Highways Investment Program
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Agreed. The inclusion of assessment of current operational capacity is integral to the formulation of a framework for infrastructure development.

Project Number: 45078-001
Project Name: Strategic Masterplan for Chittagong Port
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Lesson
Time taken to recruit consultants should be considered in the planning stage.

Project Number: 52320-001
Project Name: Preliminary Assessment for Dili Airport Runway Project Upgrading Project
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Lesson
A more specific lesson is that road safety programs need to be integrated into the design and management of specific road networks.

Project Number: 48033-001
Project Name: Enhancing Road Safety for Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Member Countries
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Lesson
A lesson based on the first paragraph could be: “A TA project on road safety can be particularly effective when the TA results can be immediately used in preparation of investment projects or in ongoing projects.”

Project Number: 48033-001
Project Name: Enhancing Road Safety for Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Member Countries
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Lesson
Development of a realistic consultant hiring strategy, including options for various scenarios, is critical to the success of a TA project such as this, given the difficulty in hiring specialty skills for consulting assignments. Also, a well-formulated human resource strategy concerning the use of internal staff resources at the outset effectively supports TA project implementation. Project design required the hiring of consultants but their services were not secured on time. The TCR noted that two Kazpost staff did the work that was envisaged to be done by an external consultant.

Project Number: 40552-012
Project Name: KazPost Financial Strengthening and Modernization
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Lesson
There is no context given regarding what is meant by “unexpected developments” in the TCR that may point toward other ways to improve future loan preparation efforts. It would have been helpful if further details were provided as to how the Private Sector Operations Department (PSOD) could have been engaged more closely during the project preparation stage.

Project Number: 40552-012
Project Name: KazPost Financial Strengthening and Modernization
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Lesson
The content reflected in the TCR self-assessment is a statement that is not phrased as a lesson learned. To restate, one lesson learned was that completion of the business plan and development of a cash-flow model that was a critical part of the TA project goals, can increase the possibility of the ensuing loan by providing opportunity for other potential lenders to be engaged.

Project Number: 40552-012
Project Name: KazPost Financial Strengthening and Modernization
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Lesson
The TA project’s consulting services included 12 person-months of international inputs and 59 person-months of national inputs. There are sufficient inputs of local experts to improve the localization aspects of the design, and improve communication in both Chinese and English. If local technical experts such as university professors proactively joined, the sustainability of ADB support is expected to increase as professors would support, use, and disseminate the final reports.

Project Number: 51028-001
Project Name: Comprehensive Hub-oriented Transportation Strategy for Urumqi Metropolitan Area
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Lesson
This validation agrees with the TCR self-assessment on the importance of localizing the studies and having TA project reports in Chinese to facilitate understanding and communication with local government and stakeholders.

Project Number: 51028-001
Project Name: Comprehensive Hub-oriented Transportation Strategy for Urumqi Metropolitan Area
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