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Lesson
Validity of design was built with the project team responding to the request of the PRC government and aligning the project inputs to their declared priorities of reforms in three areas, namely budget management, tax reforms, and intergovernmental fiscal transfers. The TA design and planning elements contributed in large measure to the project’s enhanced efficiency. Project ownership was ensured with the TA’s demand-driven design at commencement. However, this was only evident in knowledge production, but fell short in the area of capacity-building development.

Project Number: 48006-001
Project Name: Improving Efficiency in Public Service Procurement, Delivery, and Financing
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Lesson
It is essential that—aside from being SMART—indicators be tightly linked to the objective statement considering a theory of change and program logic model. In the current TA, the link between the outcome indicator and the outcome statement needs to be tightened. This would facilitate better tracking of the TA results in the long term.

Project Number: 50006-001
Project Name: Poverty Reduction in Liupanshan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region
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Lesson
For knowledge and capacity building TA, the design should build in adequate time for knowledge dissemination, especially if the focus is on broad economic impact like poverty reduction.

Project Number: 50006-001
Project Name: Poverty Reduction in Liupanshan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region
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Lesson
A more specific lesson is that road safety programs need to be integrated into the design and management of specific road networks.

Project Number: 48033-001
Project Name: Enhancing Road Safety for Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Member Countries
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Lesson
A lesson based on the first paragraph could be: “A TA project on road safety can be particularly effective when the TA results can be immediately used in preparation of investment projects or in ongoing projects.”

Project Number: 48033-001
Project Name: Enhancing Road Safety for Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Member Countries
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Lesson
The lesson could have been formulated more clearly. For example: “For a TA, which closely relates to an operation, it is important to harmonize the schedules to the extent possible.”

Project Number: 42173-014
Project Name: Strengthening Monitoring and Enforcement in the Meghna River for Dhaka's Sustainable Water Supply
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Lesson
The DMF must be clear in its formulation of the details so that these could be used to confirm if the indicator targets were indeed achieved. The DMF in the TAR would have benefited from clearer indicators to (i) distinguish the Output 1 report from the Outputs 2–3 reports, (ii) specify the intended avenue for publishing reports, (iii) align the number of countries to be visited for the international study tour with the TAR’s main text, and (iv) have greater detail on the composition of training and workshop participants.

Project Number: 48010-001
Project Name: Study on Local Financial Market Development and Supervisory Framework
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Lesson
There is no context given regarding what is meant by “unexpected developments” in the TCR that may point toward other ways to improve future loan preparation efforts. It would have been helpful if further details were provided as to how the Private Sector Operations Department (PSOD) could have been engaged more closely during the project preparation stage.

Project Number: 40552-012
Project Name: KazPost Financial Strengthening and Modernization
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Lesson
The content reflected in the TCR self-assessment is a statement that is not phrased as a lesson learned. To restate, one lesson learned was that completion of the business plan and development of a cash-flow model that was a critical part of the TA project goals, can increase the possibility of the ensuing loan by providing opportunity for other potential lenders to be engaged.

Project Number: 40552-012
Project Name: KazPost Financial Strengthening and Modernization
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Lesson
Development of a realistic consultant hiring strategy, including options for various scenarios, is critical to the success of a TA project such as this, given the difficulty in hiring specialty skills for consulting assignments. Also, a well-formulated human resource strategy concerning the use of internal staff resources at the outset effectively supports TA project implementation. Project design required the hiring of consultants but their services were not secured on time. The TCR noted that two Kazpost staff did the work that was envisaged to be done by an external consultant.

Project Number: 40552-012
Project Name: KazPost Financial Strengthening and Modernization
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Lesson
At TA design and planning stage, it is important to know all the recent and planned activities of other donors on the TA’s subject to prevent duplication of activities. During the TA’s implementation, it became known that “…Danida had already financed the activities leading to the achievement of an NRW reduction methodology and procedures defined and adopted by the MOC by 2015.”

Project Number: 44002-022
Project Name: Improving Operational Performance of the Water Supply Sector
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Lesson
Institutional arrangements need to be robust and well-coordinated to deliver results. It must be clearly recognized for designing a large size and regional TA projects, especially involving multiple countries and development partners. Capacity needs assessment can serve as basis for specifying focus activities by country and targeting the scope of capacity building.

Project Number: 39542-022
Project Name: Implementing the Greater Mekong Subregion Core Agriculture Support Program (Phase 2)
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Lesson
This validation adds the need to adopt a more realistic timeline where funding sources are uncertain or unknown.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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Lesson
This section in the TCR presents several findings including that increased readiness for finance access is different from the actual capacity to access finance and is highly context-specific to the type of project for which finance is required, the sources of finance being tapped, and individual DMC priorities and circumstances—this is a generalizable lesson in planning and relates to having some degree of flexibility to adapt to the evolving context given that this is a new area of work for the ADB as well as the DMCs.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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Lesson
This validation recognizes the importance of assessing a project’s technical feasibility during the TA’s preparation stage.

Project Number: 48432-001
Project Name: Enabling Poor Women's Benefits from Enhanced Access to Energy in Hatiya Island
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