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Lesson
The strong collaboration among international financial institutions in Viet Nam (the 6-Banks group) provides an interesting model that may have broader applicability across ADB. This TA showed that activities, such as sharing international best practice and providing advice on the formulation of draft laws and decrees, can be strengthened when done in the name of more than one organization.

Project Number: 48183-001
Project Name: Improving Portfolio Performance and Aid Management
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Lesson
Careful front-end analysis of existing regulatory and policy settings can improve TA design and impact. In this TA’s case, capacity development activities were selected as the main strategy for change. The TA missed an opportunity to incorporate other modalities, such as explicitly supporting policy change when it was already understood that the regulatory framework was an ongoing constraint to improved ODA management.

Project Number: 48183-001
Project Name: Improving Portfolio Performance and Aid Management
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Lesson
Capacity training of individuals as a strategy for change needs to be carefully balanced against other modalities. In this TA’s case, capacity development activities would likely have short-term benefits for the individual participants, as well as for the projects in which those individuals work. However, the TA missed an opportunity to incorporate other project modalities, such as explicitly supporting policy change, when it was already understood that the regulatory framework was an ongoing constraint to improved ODA management.

Project Number: 48183-001
Project Name: Improving Portfolio Performance and Aid Management
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Lesson
Continuous monitoring of external environment provides an opportunity for adjustment of TA design. At time of seeking approval for increased time and budget for this TA, consideration could also have been given to requesting design adjustments. Recalibration of the training programs and knowledge products may have resulted in greater impact within evolving policy constraints.

Project Number: 48183-001
Project Name: Improving Portfolio Performance and Aid Management
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Lesson
In cases where results dissemination is constrained, due to sensitivities (as occurred in this TA), ADB may instead prepare and publish “Observations and Suggestions” on its website.

Project Number: 51021-001
Project Name: Reforming the System of Personal Income Tax and Social Security Contributions
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It is important to focus on selective, priority areas of manageable scale in a TA.

Project Number: 51021-001
Project Name: Reforming the System of Personal Income Tax and Social Security Contributions
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Lesson
Plan adequately for end of TA dissemination knowledge sharing.

Project Number: 50034-001
Project Name: Vocational Education-Enterprise Collaboration for Student Employment-Based Poverty Reduction in Gansu
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Lesson
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
Carefully contextualizing the TA’s findings and implication for potential scaling-up within the same province or beyond can be reflected in the TCR.

Project Number: 49279-001
Project Name: Creating Enabling Environment fopr Gradual Rural-Urban Migration and Urban Settlements Development in Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture
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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
Other lessons that can be used when replicating or scaling up some aspects of this TA project were not mentioned. Based on the guidelines, replication occurs when results of the TA project can be copied in other areas. Evidence of scaling up can involve mainstreaming the TA project process into wider development pathway.

Project Number: 48240-001
Project Name: Information and Communication Technology for Development Initiative Facility in Asia and the Pacific
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Lesson
Better assessment on the demand from operational departments was deemed needed as well. The change in scope kept the TA project relevant despite the fast-paced nature of the environment it was trying to address.3 A change in scope may be ideal for ICT-related TA projects as the technology advances can move quite quickly.

Project Number: 48240-001
Project Name: Information and Communication Technology for Development Initiative Facility in Asia and the Pacific
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Lesson
If this TCR claims potential demand from other countries for similar TA projects, it could have provided evidence to support this. The TCR could have also highlighted what worked and what did not in the methodology used if similar TA projects would be replicated or lessons that could be useful in the follow-on TA project.

Project Number: 50315-001
Project Name: Facilitating Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Foreign Direct Investment Flows: An ASEAN+6 Case Study
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Lesson
This is essential for all kinds of projects. The TCR could have cited specific instances where coordination with the resident missions produced favorable results at design and planning stage.

Project Number: 50315-001
Project Name: Facilitating Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Foreign Direct Investment Flows: An ASEAN+6 Case Study
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Lesson
Agree on the need to continuously implement capacity building activities, given the rapidly changing development landscape and new emerging challenges, and to customize it to local languages for better understanding. The design of the next capacity building workshops should be informed by the feedback received from the participants from the post-training evaluation surveys conducted. It would be useful if SDCC could indicate these feedback and suggestions for future CDTA projects.

Project Number: 50060-001
Project Name: Strengthening Tax Policy and Administration Capacity to Mobilize Domestic Resources
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