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Lesson
Setting a high job placement target to qualify for the final milestone payment can can create a negative incentive for training providers to inflate the training costs so as to cover for all their costs regardless of whether or not they meet the job placement target. This lesson, arising from a similar project in Nepal, was heeded by the tranche 1 project that lowered the job placement target from 70% to 60% to ensure that the training providers do not to lose their focus on job placement.

Project Number: 42466-015
Project Name: Skills for Employment Investment Program - Tranche 1
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Lesson
Replacing higher-level skills courses with in-demand entry-level courses can raise the job placement performance of projects. Industry associations initially expected a strong demand for mid- or higher-level technical skills; however, job placements from these courses were more challenging than those from more entry-level courses. Therefore, the outcome indicator related to increased shares of higher-level skills was not increased, and was instead pegged at just about 18%l, which proved more realistic.

Project Number: 42466-015
Project Name: Skills for Employment Investment Program - Tranche 1
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Lesson
The objectives and implementation period for sector reform projects need to be well-aligned with the government’s long-term vision and carefully consider existing capacities. This project's overall objective was ambitious as sector reforms require long-term and sustainable interventions, adequate resources, and sufficient time. Increasing student enrollment and rural higher education institutions offering distance education programs were not achievable through a single project intervention.

Project Number: 43007-023
Project Name: Higher Education Reform Project
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Limited baseline data could lead to unrealistic performance Indicators and targets. Because this was ADB’s first TVET grant project in Timor-Leste, which introduced a new area of formalized skills development, baseline data for the targets were limited. This led to some unrealistic performance Indicators and targets. For example, the number of students and trainers to be trained appeared to be modest, whereas the target of 65% of graduates to find employment within 3 months of graduation was overambitious.

Project Number: 45139-001
Project Name: Mid-Level Skills Training Project
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Well-phrased as a lesson, assuming the lack of training was the main underlying issue. Given that audit observations presumably came in annually, there could have been time to adjust the TA project activities to address the identified issue. However, it is unclear from the TCR whether factors other than inadequate training contributed to the issue.

Project Number: 45317-001
Project Name: Support for the Third Primary Education Development Project
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Despite ADB’s and the PRC government’s best intentions, replacing the gender-sensitive training manual appeared to be unjustified. It was reflected in the heavily male-oriented output 2b and the TA final report that “the minority, underprivileged and female graduates are in a lower employment rate than the average level within Gansu.” The lesson should be project design change based on fact and data, not on the whims of the developing member country’s government.

Project Number: 50034-001
Project Name: Vocational Education-Enterprise Collaboration for Student Employment-Based Poverty Reduction in Gansu
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Lesson
This validation deems that the first sentence is not a lesson but a statement on TA’s relevance and contribution.

Project Number: 50311-001
Project Name: Education Sector Assessment
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Lesson
PEDP III had 626 audit observations. Adequate training to the executing agencies on compliance with financial rules and regulation should have been provisioned under the TA, which could have improved the financial compliance and resulted in fewer audit observations.

Project Number: 45317-001
Project Name: Support for the Third Primary Education Development Project
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Lesson
The TA was consistent with ADB’s desire to reengage with the education sector in Pakistan after a long absence and helped to influence the direction of the Country Partnership Strategy, 2020−2024, which is under preparation. The general nature of the TA provided flexibility and allowed ADB to be responsive in identifying the focus of the sector assessments prepared.

Project Number: 50311-001
Project Name: Education Sector Assessment
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