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Lesson
Adjusting consultant management to unanticipated disruptions, e.g., restrictions posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, will make project delivery more robust and resilient to challenges that arise during project implementation. The flexibility in the recruitment of consultants ensured the efficiency of this TA.

Project Number: 52070-001
Project Name: South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation Regional Energy Cooperation
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Lesson
Effective collaboration and coordination, country missions, and sustained communications are crucial to successful project implementation. The TA achieved its objectives through effective collaboration and coordination between ADB and SASEC countries. Country missions provided opportunities for course corrections when ground truthing revealed some additional risks or incorrect assumptions. Hybrid (online and offline) mode of communication allowed the TA activities to be implemented but at reduced cost.

Project Number: 52070-001
Project Name: South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation Regional Energy Cooperation
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Lesson
Careful selection of competent experts and close consultant monitoring and coordination is essential to ensure the quality of TA outputs. As the two consultants engaged by this TA needed to work on separate topics to deliver one report, close monitoring and coordination by the ADB team proved critical to the timely attainment of consultant deliverables. Regular meetings were conducted to oversee progress, give guidance, avoid preventive abortive work, and deliver quality outputs.

Project Number: 55319-001
Project Name: Southeast Asia Aviation: COVID-19 Impact and Short-term Strategy
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Lesson
Regular and consistent monitoring during the preparation of initial environmental examination documents, environmental impact assessments, environmental management plans, remedial action plan, and gender action plan is critical, and should include an audit report during submission to ensure not only compliance with guidelines but also adequacy of consultations with minutes of proceedings. This avoids any critical issues from surfacing that would affect project design and implementation timeline.

Project Number: 42414-043
Project Name: Sustainable Urban Transport Investment Program - Tranche 3
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Close monitoring of work progress and quality of consulting services and deliverables of consultants and timely implementing remedial measures and backup plans are critical to ensure the achievement of planned project outputs. Under this project, the poor performance of the two consulting firms for project implementation had adverse impacts on the ability of the program management office and implementing agencies to address project management issues in a timely manner, particularly during the extended period and loan closing.

Project Number: 43023-013
Project Name: Guangxi Beibu Gulf Cities Development Project
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Lesson
Data collection on all Indicators in each tranche project should be ensured to facilitate a reliable assessment of the accomplishments and performance of each project and the entire MFF. The executing agency (EA) is required, as part of the government’s undertakings, to establish a project performance monitoring system to collect and measure baseline data on the performance Indicators in the design and monitoring framework (DMF) during implementation and to submit to ADB, as self-evaluation, the government’s completion report for the implemented projects.

Project Number: 44483-024, 44483-023, 44483-026, 44483-027
Project Name: Second Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 2 Road Investment Program
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Lesson
Timely reassessment can be instrumental to project success. After the project was approved, a series of devastating storms caused severe damage in the project area. The timely engagement of a consulting firm to revise the project design helped avoid project delays. Project interventions were revised based on the additional rehabilitation needs and the new evidence about potential impacts of storms on the coastline.

Project Number: 42414-044
Project Name: Sustainable Urban Transport Investment Program - Tranche 4
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Lesson
Close and consistent supervision by ADB is crucial in ensuring quality road works and effective project implementation. The quality of construction supervision (including bridge design) and close, regular supervision by ADB since 2017 were critical in ensuring the quality of bridge construction and installation under this project. Despite delays and issues in financial management and procurement, the project achieved high-quality bridge construction, which contributed to project effectiveness.

Project Number: 43200-024
Project Name: Bridge Replacement for Improved Rural Access Sector Project
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Lesson
The TA project was cofinanced by the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction and ADB through theThe TCR did not comment on the mechanism used to update cofinancing partners on progress toward key milestones and developments of the TA project. It is important to keep stakeholders engaged and informed during the project implementation. This is especially true when a project has a long implementation timeframe.

Project Number: 46502-001
Project Name: Trade and Transport Facilitation in the Pacific
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Lesson
It is agreed that cofinancing partners ought to be updated regularly on key milestones and developments of the TA project, but this does not constitute a lesson.

Project Number: 46502-001
Project Name: Trade and Transport Facilitation in the Pacific
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Lesson
For a development project with such apparently clear potential economic benefits, it would be helpful for the TCR to provide clearer evidence as to why the operation was dropped and why mitigation did not occur in a timely manner.

Project Number: 46374-001
Project Name: Southern Highways Investment Program
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Lesson
The project was funded by the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction. The CPA was the implementing agency. ADB administered the funds and the Government of Bangladesh provided in-kind support. The TA provides a positive example of partners’ coming together in effective collaboration.

Project Number: 45078-001
Project Name: Strategic Masterplan for Chittagong Port
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This is a useful lesson learned. A wider and more applicable lesson based on this TA’s implementing experience is: Building TA on studies already conducted and collaborating with different development partners is critical for supporting the government in making an informed decision.

Project Number: 52320-001
Project Name: Preliminary Assessment for Dili Airport Runway Project Upgrading Project
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Lesson
In this TA, the Central and West Asia Department. collaborated effectively with the East Asia Department and the Development and Climate Change Department. A lesson from this would be: In a regional TA, application of the "One-ADB" approach can be particularly effective.

Project Number: 48033-001
Project Name: Enhancing Road Safety for Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Member Countries
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Based on the statement in the TCR, it is not clear how IFC and HSBC benefited from ADB’s work and what lessons were learned.

Project Number: 40552-012
Project Name: KazPost Financial Strengthening and Modernization
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