Search

Displaying 46 - 60 of 260

Lesson
The validation agrees with the lesson that alignment of TA project design with ADB operational priorities and workplans can help ensure smoother implementation, monitoring, and reporting.

Project Number: 48206-001
Project Name: Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (Phase 2)
Report Date:
Lesson
The TA proposed additional consultant hours to support processing operations. With remaining budget available, this may have been an opportunity for increased utilization of TA-financed personnel to assist or train government staff. The TA generated high quality documents. With the remaining funds, there could have been an opportunity to support the implementation of recommended actions.

Project Number: 46374-001
Project Name: Southern Highways Investment Program
Report Date:
Lesson
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
Report Date:
Lesson
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
Report Date:
Lesson
The DMF must include outcomes for each of the output areas, given the diverse and significant nature of the outputs and their contribution to Mongolia’s financial stability. The DMF included outcomes for three of the five output areas, making it difficult to track the TA project’s contributions.

Project Number: 50017-001
Project Name: Supporting Financial Sector Development and Stability
Report Date:
Lesson
This is a useful lesson learned, but it is phrased as a recommendation. Rephrasing it into a lesson learned: Engaging with stakeholders extensively (including those that may not be directly involved in the TA project) while designing the TA can increase ownership of its activities among national stakeholders and support a timely implementation of TA activities. This TA project would have benefited from focus group discussions with stakeholders in the banking and capital market sector. Topics could have included financial inclusion, financial literacy, and consumer protection.

Project Number: 45396-001
Project Name: Enhancing the Regulatory Framework of Financial Sector Development and Oversight
Report Date:
Lesson
This validation also adds that choosing and defining outcome indicators that can be directly attributed to TA outputs can improve a program’s relevanc and effectiveness.

Project Number: 45396-001
Project Name: Enhancing the Regulatory Framework of Financial Sector Development and Oversight
Report Date:
Lesson
Consultations with the government and development partners are critical for ensuring that the government has sufficient implementation capacity, increasing synergies and reducing duplication. In this TA project, ADB did not sufficiently consult with the government with regard to e-licensing, which resulted in delays due to the lack of capacity on XBRL in OJK’s IT department. ADB also did not sufficiently consult with the World Bank, which resulted in several activities being part of the TA design that the government had already agreed on being financed by the World Bank.

Project Number: 45396-001
Project Name: Enhancing the Regulatory Framework of Financial Sector Development and Oversight
Report Date:
Lesson
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
Report Date:
Lesson
It is agreed that close communication and timely change in implementation arrangements helped minimize the impact of disruptions and ultimately secured TA completion (although not efficiently as expected). Effective management throughout the project cycle helps to make the project delivery more robust and resilient to challenges arising during project implementation.

Project Number: 45078-001
Project Name: Strategic Masterplan for Chittagong Port
Report Date:
Lesson
Rather than being a lesson learned, this is a statement of a requirement. ADB projects categorized Gender Equity (GEN) or Effective Gender Mainstreaming (EGM) are required to include gender sensitive indicators to their DMFs.

Project Number: 50285-001
Project Name: Support to Strengthening Local Health Care Program
Report Date:
Lesson
(Referring to the new TA classification): This is not a lesson learned and not sufficiently specific to the TA design such as linkage to the consistency of the TA with the CPS, technical soundness of the TA, or adequacy of the design process.

Project Number: 50285-001
Project Name: Support to Strengthening Local Health Care Program
Report Date:
Lesson
This is a valuable lesson which would have been more useful if it had included more specific information from this TA’s implementation experience.

Project Number: 48472-001
Project Name: Promotion of Environmentally Sustainable Infrastructure Investment in Asia and the Pacific
Report Date:
Lesson
In addition to the lessons identified in the TCR, an additional lesson would be: Allowing flexibility to expand the scope and modify planned activities is beneficial for achieving the desired outcome. In this TA, the additional funding through the Republic of Korea e_x005F_x0002_Asia and Knowledge Partnership Fund supported the identification of policy reform actions for the regulatory environment governing local health care delivery to ease forward implementation.

Project Number: 50285-001
Project Name: Support to Strengthening Local Health Care Program
Report Date:
Lesson
The timing needed to reach regional agreement on sensitive matters is inherently difficult to predict. The use of optimistic targets may help motivate progress. However, the risks of delays in such projects need to be explicitly recognized.

Project Number: 50055-001
Project Name: Creating a Regional Settlement Intermediary in ASEAN+3: Cross-Border Settlement Infrastructure Forum
Report Date: