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Lesson
Complex programs, especially novel ones, demand rigorous front-end analyses at appraisal to identify better implementation arrangements and timelines

Project Number: 39500-013, 39500-023, 39500-033
Project Name: Ho Chi Minh City Urban Mass Rapid Transit Line 2 Investment Program (MFF and Tranches 1 and 2)
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Lesson
Inadequate due diligence can lead to design deficiencies that will make implementation difficult and necessitate changes in scope and detailed designs, with accompanying impacts on project duration, costs, and delivery of results.

Project Number: 37269-013, 37269-023
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion: Rehabilitation of the Railway in Cambodia
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Agreed. Furthermore, the UNESCAP previously piloted a TTFMM in South Asia. The approach was replicated under this TA project for Output c. The application of well-executed methodologies used in other comparable regions is a positive example of knowledge sharing and replication. It is also important to adopt the approach piloted in other region by fully customizing the approaches that are applicable to the region of the interest, which for this TA project was the Pacific region.

Project Number: 46502-001
Project Name: Trade and Transport Facilitation in the Pacific
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Lesson
It is implied in the TCR that skills gained from preparing the studies for this project were useful to counterparts, especially in preparing bidding documents for another ADB project. A lesson learned here is that practical skills development of counterparts built into TA supporting the preparation of one investment operation can have spillover benefits for staff preparing other projects in the future.

Project Number: 46374-001
Project Name: Southern Highways Investment Program
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Lesson
The development of a strategic master plan in any significant infrastructure or operational area of any industry provides a framework for effective planning of development activities. In a developing nation, a master plan can be used to direct potential donors or investors to apply resources according to the national government’s identified and mandated priority areas and medium to long term plan.

Project Number: 45078-001
Project Name: Strategic Masterplan for Chittagong Port
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Lesson
The stated lesson from the TA project is the second sentence, i.e., “The coordination of activities of this TA with relevant international development agencies, agencies in CAREC member countries, civil society and other stakeholders to avoid overlapping and to maximize the effectiveness of the project can be replicated in other TA projects.”

Project Number: 48033-001
Project Name: Enhancing Road Safety for Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Member Countries
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Lesson
The TCR stated that the deteriorating global economic situation and conservative fiscal situation, along with a change of Kazpost management, led to the non-take-up of follow-up ADB finance. The TCR also implied that there could have been a follow up loan had there been closer cooperation between PSOD and the TA team. Under these constraining circumstances, closer cooperation between PSOD and the TA team increases the chances of leading to the follow-up ADB loan.

Project Number: 40552-012
Project Name: KazPost Financial Strengthening and Modernization
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Lesson
The institutional structures of both RTAD and DOH are still weak in addressing identified road safety and maintenance issues. It is recommended that RTAD should establish a road safety section to strengthen its leadership, and DOH should establish RAMS unit to act as [an] engine room to enhance the planning process. To attract interest of private contractors to participate in maintenance works, together with providing capacity building trainings for the contractors, MOC should advocate [for a] strategy of road maintenance based on appropriate investment plan.

Project Number: 46370-002
Project Name: Improving Road Network Management and Safety
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Lesson
The TA was scaled-up quite significantly from $2 million to $3.9 million. This enabled the project team to be responsive to client’s demands by drawing on the same consulting services to support on multiple technical studies.

Project Number: 46502-001
Project Name: Trade and Transport Facilitation in the Pacific
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Lesson
Kazpost was just one example of many unsuccessful ADB attempts in non-sovereign lending to Kazakhstan state owned enterprises from 2005–2010. The TA team (Central and West Asia Department/ Kazakhstan Resident Mission) and PSOD should have worked more closely in preparing the ensuing loan. Subsequently, enhanced collaboration of PSOD and Central and West Asia Department [was] further established, which resulted in the first loan to a state-owned enterprise, Samruk Energo, in 2017.

Project Number: 40552-012
Project Name: KazPost Financial Strengthening and Modernization
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Lesson
Strong demand from CAREC for similar TA projects is confirmed in annual TSCC meetings and there is also potential demand from South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation (SASEC) countries and other DMCs for similar TA projects which are being discussed in road safety workshops and conferences. The coordination of activities of this TA with relevantinternational development agencies, agencies in CAREC member countries, civil society and other stakeholders to avoid overlapping and to maximize the effectiveness of the project can be replicated in other TA projects.

Project Number: 48033-001
Project Name: Enhancing Road Safety for Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Member Countries
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The use of small-scale TA was effective in timely determining the project scope, financing gaps, and institutional set-up prior to preparation of a full-scale feasibility study. Similar approach can be adopted under TRTA facilities for multiple pipeline projects before starting full-scale studies.

Project Number: 52320-001
Project Name: Preliminary Assessment for Dili Airport Runway Project Upgrading Project
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