Search

Displaying 1 - 15 of 17

Lesson
Project preparation should have included better articulation of the need or logic for integrating a program loan and a project loan in a sector development program (SDP). Policy dialogue, which is essential to clearly establish an understanding among the executing agencies that policy reforms and project loan financed investments are interlinked, should have been undertaken; however, this was missing in this SDP. Two separate loans delivered in sequence may have been preferable and more manageable.

Project Number: 39305-013
Project Name: Urban Public and Environmental Health Sector Development Program
Report Date:
Lesson
the road construction, introduction of new legislation banning slow-moving traffic from highways,

Project Number: 48218-010
Project Name: Food Safety and Agriculture Commercialization Program
Report Date:
Lesson
Planning for efficient resource use in advance adequately addresses the situation when the full output cannot be delivered

Project Number: 45506-002
Project Name: Gansu Jiuquan Integrated Urban Environment Improvement Project
Report Date:
Lesson
This validation also offers this lesson: The TA memo provides a lesson (although it was not reflected in the TCR lessons) regarding the shift in scope, "In light of the ongoing transition to federalism, which aims to devolve the responsibilities for the agriculture sector to the subnational government levels (provincial and municipal), the consultations at the subnational level have become critical not only for the program design, but also to assess the most feasible implementation arrangements…The need to consult with the subnational government offices has not received sufficient atte

Project Number: 48218-007
Project Name: Support for Value Chain Development under the Nepal Agriculture Development Strategy
Report Date:
Lesson
The TCR lesson reflects on the need to engage with the stakeholders in the project design process. However, there is no mention of whether the stakeholders were consulted again when the output indicators changed, and some market corridors were dropped. When the project scope changes significantly, it is a good practice to revisit previously consulted stakeholders to update them of the need to change the targets and incorporate their feedback.

Project Number: 48218-007
Project Name: Support for Value Chain Development under the Nepal Agriculture Development Strategy
Report Date:
Lesson
Agreed. Lesson might be rephrased as: Wide stakeholder consultations (with private sector, subject matter experts, and the government) enabled identification of critical reforms, particularly on food safety, an area where this TA linked with public health.

Project Number: 48218-007
Project Name: Support for Value Chain Development under the Nepal Agriculture Development Strategy
Report Date:
Lesson
Even when TA activities have a highly technical focus, finding ways to engage non-technical stakeholders can result in additional synergies and benefits. The TA activity included capacity development activities for forest managers relating to the management of forest genetic resources, including seed stand identification, seed collection, processing and storage.

Project Number: 50012-001
Project Name: Conservation of Forest Genetic Resources
Report Date:
Lesson
Targeted stakeholder consultation can help mobilize the broad-based support needed to implement a TA project with many different stakeholders. Such engagement can help to develop plans and guidelines that have broad-based support. This can facilitate approval and subsequent implementation of these plans. The quality of consultations might be enhanced by documenting stakeholder perceptions of consultative processes. Such perceptions may also provide evidence needed to assess national ownership and potential sustainability.

Project Number: 46257-001
Project Name: Strengthening Integrated Water Resources Management in Mountainous River Basins
Report Date:
Lesson
The first statement provides a general lesson: that conferences help strengthen networks. This could be considered part of the rationale rather than a lesson. For this TA, more information is required on who attended, what they learned, and how they learned—to justify this as a specific lesson that would be of value for wider learning. The second sentence is an aspirational statement that does not provide sufficient depth as a lesson, rather, this appears to be more of a recommendation.

Project Number: 48469-001
Project Name: Developing Gross Ecosystem Product Accounting for Eco-Compensation
Report Date:
Lesson
The TCR missed the opportunity to reflect on lessons regarding stakeholder participation. The TCR could have shared specific lesson from its engagement with various stakeholders from the government and the local business sectors. As the outcome statement involved two dimensions of planning and implementing poverty reduction measures, it would be useful if there are knowledge dissemination activities designed based on the roles played by the stakeholders, e.g., planning or implementation, as this would enable stakeholders to strengthen either the planning or the implementation capacity.

Project Number: 50006-001
Project Name: Poverty Reduction in Liupanshan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region
Report Date:
Lesson
The TA supported a wide range of stakeholder consultations with the private sector, subject matter experts, and the Government on key policy bottlenecks in the agriculture sector in Nepal. These interactions led to the identification of critical reforms towards strengthening the Government's capacity for ensuring the food safety, a serious public health concern in Nepal.

Project Number: 48218-007
Project Name: Support for Value Chain Development under the Nepal Agriculture Development Strategy
Report Date:
Lesson
ADB involvement in high-level discussions was very much appreciated by the government. Moreover, the new team in the executing agency of MEGNR was able to organize the final workshop to discuss the proposed KKC-IWRM’s structure and future support of the government. Acknowledging the needs of the government for the sustainable water sector development, the MEGNR and the Committee for Water Resources requested additional assistance from ADB for knowledge and capacity building support in IWRM to introduce policy reforms and a new strategy.

Project Number: 51364-001
Project Name: Establishment of Kazakstan Knowledge Center on Integrated Water Resources Management
Report Date:
Lesson
International annual conferences on eco-compensation helped promote and strengthen regional and global networks, through the participation of PES policy makers, practitioners, and researchers. The NDRC [were] encouraged to invite Belt and Road Initiative countries to participate in future eco-compensation conferences.

Project Number: 48469-001
Project Name: Developing Gross Ecosystem Product Accounting for Eco-Compensation
Report Date:
Lesson
ADB could take advantage of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation program to foster stakeholder participation and regional cooperation.

Project Number: 48469-001
Project Name: Developing Gross Ecosystem Product Accounting for Eco-Compensation
Report Date:
Lesson
The participation of various stakeholders was important to the success of the TA to achieve a good understanding of the outputs and outcome and have consensus on the TA’s progress and achievement. The TA actively facilitated various stakeholders’ participation through workshops, seminars, and consultation meetings from project design to project implementation stage. The major stakeholders who participated were government officials of related ministries, agencies at state and local level, municipalities, water user’s associations and NGOs.

Project Number: 46257-001
Project Name: Strengthening Integrated Water Resources Management in Mountainous River Basins
Report Date: