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Lesson
The TCR identified two findings, not lessons: first, engagement with strategic national partners was beneficial, and second, flexibility in output 2’s design enabled the TA to respond to national stakeholder priorities during implementation through consultative workshops with national stakeholders

Project Number: 46470-001
Project Name: Action on Climate Change in South Asia
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This is a useful lesson learned. The lesson could have benefitted from specifying which outputs should have been grouped together under separate TA projects.

Project Number: 48040-001
Project Name: Export- and Innovation-Led Industrial Development
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In addition, designing a complex cluster TA requires a conduct of a detailed risks assessment (i.e., risk strategy matrix vs. DMF statements), involving extensive consultations with the stakeholders. This was apparently done for subproject 2 but was not evident for the cluster RETA.

Project Number: 44174-022
Project Name: Support for Implementing the Action Plan for Transport and Trade Facilitation in the Greater Mekong Subregion (Subprojects 1 and 2)
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Time taken to recruit consultants should be considered in the planning stage.

Project Number: 52320-001
Project Name: Preliminary Assessment for Dili Airport Runway Project Upgrading Project
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In finalizing this validation report, SAOD elaborated on an open and flexible design in project implementation. It is a suitable solution to accommodating DMCs’ requests for climate change–related capacity building activities in line with project objectives.

Project Number: 46470-001
Project Name: Action on Climate Change in South Asia
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Lesson
Collaborative consultations and flexibility in design are needed to address differing national priorities of three countries in a subregional project. Such collaboration needs to be sustained from design through implementation.

Project Number: 46257-001
Project Name: Strengthening Integrated Water Resources Management in Mountainous River Basins
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Lesson
Even if a TA does not fully complete its outputs and outcomes, the knowledge products produced and engagement with stakeholders can be taken forward by subsequent interventions.

Project Number: 45419-001
Project Name: SASEC Subregional Energy Efficiency Initiative
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The validation disagrees with the TCR on its view of the TA’s rationale.The TCR and this validation are in agreement regarding the TA design and the need to improve the indicators. Another related lesson is that the indicators need to be selected such that they remain consistent with the logic of the results framework. The TCR is also candid about the need to have a realistic and achievable targets, particularly within the parameters of an SSTA.

Project Number: 45419-001
Project Name: SASEC Subregional Energy Efficiency Initiative
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Lesson
This is a narrative comment rather than a lesson and could be better suited in the Conduct of Activities section. It could be formulated as a lesson, as follows:Strong government leadership is instrumental to TA success.

Project Number: 48469-001
Project Name: Developing Gross Ecosystem Product Accounting for Eco-Compensation
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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
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
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
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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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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